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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teacher shortage situation is looking quite grim across the state of Maryland and specifically within MCPS. WJLA dug into this recently: https://wjla.com/news/local/education-maryland-school-districts-work-to-fill-vacant-teaching-positions-teacher-shortages-montgomery-county-public-schools-prince-georges-county-superintendent-millard-house#

[QUOTE]According to MCPS, there are currently 289 full-time openings: 167 at the elementary level, 73 among middle schools, 48 at high schools and one at the county's Virtual Academy.

MCPS tells me 98 of those vacancies are special education positions and that the system is engaged in a variety of recruitment and marketing efforts to attract new employees.[/QUOTE]

So expect a lot of shortages at the elementary and middle school levels. Surprisingly, the high schools are not in that bad of a shape, considering how often the behavioral issues at that level make the news.[/quote]

The teacher shortage looks quite grim across the nation.  Salary is only part of the change that needs to happen.  As a nation we need to look at what is required of the work and how many people in schools would best serve the needs of students.  We need to look at whether all teachers should be 10 month or some should be 12 month.  We need to look at teacher training programs and evaluate if they are providing teachers with all the necessary skills needed for a 21st century classroom.  We need to look at how parents are experiencing schools and how they are being prepared for what to expect.  We need to evaluate funding sources and determine if they are keeping pace with the expectations and demands of consumers and where not explain clearly what cannot happen or what is being cut. ETc. ETC.
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Actually, the majority of the problem is parenting at home. Parents have no expectations for their kids at home-they expect schools to raise them without doing any heavy lifting themselves. That is why as a country, we are seeing huge behavioral problems in early childhood education that only getting worse. [/quote]

Oh I absolutely agree that this “Gentle Parenting” with no boundaries, and taking technology everywhere is part of the problem.  Like if you can’t even take your kid to a restaurant and eat a meal without a device, what do parents think is going to happen in school.  This DEFINITELY needs to be addressed.  But that doesn’t change my thoughts that some serious re-imaging of education and community is needed.[/quote]

It's a combination of teachers/schools and parenting.  Teachers expecting kids to come to K reading is absurd.  We did teach our kids knowing how inadequate MCPS was and through ES supplemented but it's not reasonable to expect parents to do that.  Give the kids real homework and actually teach them in school.  Get back to the basics.

We regularly gave our kids devices when we go to restaurants.  After spending 24/7 with them, we wanted to talk and have some time together and it was far cheaper than a babysitter.  The restaurants weren't fancy and welcoming to kids.  That is not why kids are acting as they do.  Parents blame teachers, teachers blame parents and no one works together.  We couldn't get our ES teachers to talk to us, or our child's SN therapists.  The school would not provide adequate services and the curriculum was a joke.  They don't teach reading any more, they don' teach spelling, grammar or vocabulary.  They don't teach math facts.  No wonder our kids are struggling in later years.  They didn't get a good foundation early on.

That child the teacher talked about clearly had SN and both the school and parents failed the child.  The child needed supports, therapies and much more and they aren't going to get that by pre-k/holding back.[/quote]

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