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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure it is for the same reason as the others: outstanding stressors on the teachers with little support. You can't keep super people if you don't take care of them. Taking care of teachers IS taking care of the students. I'm sure they're beginning to realize this, though.[/quote]

What makes you think that the teachers receive little support?

Having taught in two different DCPS schools (and having friends at several others), I can say that IT teachers receive much more support from the administration than teachers at many other schools. Teaching is hard--very hard. It's exhausting, especially if you really care. IT has an exceptional group of carefully screened, incredibly skilled and dedicated teachers. And, like good teachers everywhere, IT teachers bust their butts for their students.

So many DCPS schools function like first-year start-ups with few resources and little admin support. We're talking no toilet paper, paper towels, or hand soap in the bathrooms. We're talking buying a good chunk of your own supplies (which IT admin insists teachers NOT do). We're talking one teacher in a classroom with no help, one break a week, and lunch breaks spent making copies (if you still have copies left in your weekly/monthly quota).

I may be wrong, but--from what I've observed-- I think most [dedicated, hard-working] teachers would consider themselves lucky to teach at IT.[/quote]

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