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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So treat us and pay us like professionals. I bet you don’t have to sign in every day. [/quote]

This is ridiculous...professional adults being treated like children. No one should be surprised why FCPS can't keep people. Do Gatehouse employees sign in?[/quote]

The signing in has to do with at large schools they need to know who isn’t there before the bell rings so someone can go cover a classroom without a teacher. The issue is that so many administrators become tyrants.

My husband is a morning person and likes getting to school early in the morning. He was often the first teacher to arrive. He gets busy grading and helping students with math homework before school and then would realize it is 7:50. So he goes to the office to sign in and a petty administrator would berate him and try to mark him as late even though he arrived at school before 7 am. He was getting there before the sign in books were even put out so he couldnt sign in when he got there.

Over the course of his 25 years of teaching he no longer has any patience for administrators.  He is over having to argue he shouldn’t be marked late or told he is no longer allowed to come so early in the morning even though he has found more students like getting math help early in the morning after going home and trying to do homework and not understanding how to do it. Or doing test reviews the morning before a test.

So he started last year no longer going in early after a new especially petty administrator started at his school. So he signs in and a couple minutes before being required and doesn’t open his classroom door in the morning until the bell rings. Then leaves the minute the contract says he can.

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It's happening at smaller schools too.[/quote]

I was an elementary teacher.  When I was teaching first grade, there was another teacher who would oversleep.  (Honestly, she was a great teacher, but she had trouble with the alarm clock, I guess.)  There were a couple of times that she was not there --and the asst principal had to call her.  It's not good when teachers are not there when the kids arrive.  There is good reason for checking in.
It does seem to me that today, you should be able to check in that you are present electronically.  I would hope that the honor system would be enough.[/quote]

Then you deal with the staff that is a problem-when you do it for everyone you create an environment of distrust-where teachers and staff no longer put in extra energy or effort-because their supervisor has already discounted them. FCPS often overlooks the fact that they are dealing with humans. Eventually humans stop caring.[/quote]

+1 the only employees signing in should be substitutes, guest speaker/volunteers, and parents.[/quote]

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