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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much faster has the central office staff grown over the past decade relative to the student population? 2X, 3X...[/quote]

Suppose you go and get the numbers on central office staff and then get back to us?

I'll give you the student numbers:

2007-2008: 137,667
2017-2018: 161,460

so an increase of 17.3%.
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Central office is shrinking.

Sadly, it is send back into classrooms and schools people who lack a decade of experience with today’s students. Many are near retirement and will just hold out for the magic number. My school got one such individual this past year. He was nice, but clearly overwhelmed. Another was hired a month or so ago and his last Classroom was in the 90s!

I’m mid career and find I have to adjust my expectations between students I taught as a novice and those we get now. Yes, the increase in LEP is part of it depending on where you teach, but also:
screen addiction across socioeconomic groups
skyrocketing SN diagnosis and inclusion rates
Increasingly complex family/household arrangements
more litigious parents
traumatized children (whether unaccompanied minors or native US kids who have experience homelessness, drug abuse in the home, neighborhood violence, abuse and neglect)

I could go on and on.

I love teaching, but I don’t romanticize it. And I worry about the hiring trends I see in MCPS. I don’t see us hiring for the students we have right now. The candidates would be fine for the 1997-98 school year.[/quote]

What would you do differently to hire for the students you have now? Who should he recruited? [/quote]

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