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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here’s my question:

What is the plan? There are 588 missing teachers.  That’s roughly 18,000 kids (30 per class) without a teacher.

What are the levers? 
- Do they just make the classes bigger?
- move teachers around to share the pain between schools?  Seems unfair to have some schools fully staffed while others are at 50%
- Put kids into the cafeteria all day?

Seriously, what is the PLAN?[/quote]

Yes to the first. Combine classes so that there may be grades combined. Also resource teachers will be placed in classrooms to start the year. And central office staff. It will be done on a school by school basis. 
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Yep- I’ve heard central office resource teachers will be assigned to schools (which, good- it’s about time) and possibly folks who were classroom teachers last year but took other jobs this year May be put back in the classroom (ICs are the position I specifically keep hearing, which, again, good!)[/quote]

What are IC positions??[/quote]
instructional coaches
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This would make me happy, so they can see that some of their ideas are t always practical in reality.[/quote]

I guess that I am troubled by the fact that these solutions are just a band-aid and that they do not address the systemic problem in K-12 education. What is going to happen next year when more people leave again because these solutions are short-term? At some point, FCPS will run out of people. FCPS has failed to respond to a crisis that people in the trenches saw coming a long time ago. I remember even back in my 2010 grad classes the professors were talking about a significant decrease in the people coming into teacher prep programs. [/quote]

Why do you think FCPS can fix a teacher pipeline shortage?  They already heavily promote the grow your own program.  This is a much larger issue than FCPS.

Unfortunately it plays right into political attempts to destroy public education.  Let’s just hope VA doesn’t go the way of FL by allowing unqualified people to teach just because they are military spouses.[/quote]

That's pretty myopic. Teachers have been saying very loudly what needed to change for quite a while. FCPS could have at least attempted some sort of strategy to retain people but instead, they watched the hemorrhage occur and now they're all shocked and shaken... Leadership should be fired. [/quote]

I said the same thing a few things ago. The county could have prevented some of this by making changes many years ago. It also didn’t help to push virtual for that long. I know I know, it was the “safest” but other districts and teachers across the country survived. Now it’s almost too late to fix things.

[b]They also could help sponsor visas. Many certified teachers in other countries.[/b][/quote]

I have zero issues with this as long as fluent English is requirement. Even if I think it's impractical.

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Yup this will be the killer right here.  “My child couldn’t understand the teacher!  Larla could be dyslexic and it is because she couldn’t understand the phonics work in Kindergarten.”

Also it is very hard to test fluent spoken English and easier to test written because of the time involved.  [/quote]

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