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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think the model has to do with race that much…. My point was stated that offer tenure, pension, and fairly nice raises every year don’t seem to struggle to find applicants as much as the states without tenure, that do away with pension, and that hardly have step increases or just freezes them for years. [b]They also don’t hate textbooks and like to give teachers resources.[/b] There’s plenty of old crumbling buildings staffed with good teachers and good resources up here. Down in the south there’s so many nice, shiny, new looking buildings not from the 1920’s or 1950’s or even 1970’s but they’re not full of resources or staff that feel they’re compensated fairly enough to stay there for over 30 years.

Nice buildings shouldn’t be the top priority. We have plenty of old eyesore buildings up here full of teachers in their 20th year and beyond. [/quote]

Va teacher here.  This is what I desperately want.  The worst part of my job is the obscene hours I have to spend coming up with materials for teaching, because [b]Virginia doesn’t provide resources and expects teachers to be content developers[/b]. [/quote]

[b]That's not a statewide thing[/b].[/quote]

It is for middle school math. [/quote]

I can't imagine [i]every middle school[/i] in every Virginia district is lacking materials and resources.[/quote]

Hhhmmm.  Have you looked at the Virginia SOLs and compared them to textbooks that are available?  Take any grade level in math, for example that is tested.  Compare the standards for that grade level against the textbooks that are available for a school system to purchase.  Come back and tell us after you've found a textbook that aligns with and addresses more than 50% of the Virginia standards for that grade level.  We'll wait ...

One of the biggest issues is that Virginia has chosen to go out on its own and set up its own standards.  There is a huge difference between Common Core and Virginia standards for math. 
 The textbook publishers are publishing books that align with the Common Core curriculum.  This means that any text books that a school system buys won't address about half of the state standards for math for that grade level.  It is a huge Catch-22.  If Virginia would adopt Common Core, which isn't perfect but its better than the crap we have now, then teachers and students would have better resources.  As it is now, teachers and students in Virginia have no good options.
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