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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]If teachers are vaccinated or the vaccine is at least made avaiable to all of them, how can they refuse to come back to the classroom?[/quote]

[b]A lot still don’t have school for their own kids[/b]. We need enough vaccines for all school staff in multiple districts and states. [/quote]

so what? everyone else has been dealing with this for a year.[/quote]

Because the issue is still staffing. If I have to go back in person, I don’t have childcare so I’ll be quitting. You’re either out a teacher or I stay distance learning. My school has no subs and is routinely understaffed so the whole “we’ll just hire someone else” argument doesn’t work either. So again, only issue is staffing. [/quote]

You're going to get zero sympathy from parents when, thanks to teachers' selfishness, people have been dealing with these kinds of child care problems for a year and counting. Go ahead and quit. They'll find someone else. You are extremely replaceable. [/quote]

I think the PP is right that teachers are not that easily replaced. So they are indeed able to hold everyone hostage while screaming "school is not childcare" when someone other than a teacher complains about this issue. It is hypocritical, but it's the reality.[/quote]

I already replace my kids teacher as far is instruction is concerned. If she were to quit it would nearly be the same situation as we are in now. Except there is the potential they’d hire another teacher willing to work in person in her place. So go ahead and quit, I say. The local TPPs keep churning out candidates [/quote]

This. Teachers doing DL have very little value for most of elementary, and they've already shifted a lot of their jobs to the parents. At this point, an inexperienced in-person teacher teaching full-time school far outweighs an experienced teacher (even assuming this is a good teacher, although many entrenched DCPS teachers aren't). DCPS should focus on hiring incentives.[/quote]

They have them and they don’t work.  This is what people cannot see for some reason.  People do NOT want to work in DCPS. If you look at the data and at the open positions they have every year in the middle of the school year, you would see it.  Maybe only people who work in DCPS can see and understand this.  It seems to be clear as mud to others in this forum. If your child attends school anywhere outside ward 3 or capital hill, your school struggles to fill vacancies. [/quote]

[b]What do you think the reason is? [/b]Lack of an easy hiring process (i.e. convoluted like the Fed Govt)? Teachers don't want to deal with underperforming schools and all that goes with it, such as lack of prepared kids and underperforming teachers/peers (I've heard this from a couple teachers who taught in underperforming schools)? Although DCPS pays higher salaries on average than nearby public school systems, privates, or charters, is it not enough of a difference to get teachers to take jobs at the underperforming schools?

Would student loan repayment incentives help attract new teachers? Big bonuses for teachers who raise PARCC scores?

Schools need to reopen, so DCPS needs to figure out some way to ensure staffing.[/quote]

From what I hear, the DCPS admin disfunction and incentive structure is massively frustrating and unappealing to teachers.[/quote]

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