Anonymous
05/22/2023 16:29
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s a nationwide exodus of teachers. If APS bucks that trend, you should consider it a very good sign for the health of the district.
That depends on which teachers are making the exodus. A slew of retiring teachers isn't necessarily a bad thing. I am happy to hear of a few leaving our high school (retiring) after this year. There are certain others whose departures would be welcomed as well, and whose vacancies could offer an improvement for the students. A slew of good teachers in their prime leaving for other districts or other careers is not a good thing.
Nationwide it is NOT just retiring teachers. It’s all ages and experience levels, coupled with all-time low enrollment in Education programs at university.
I am having a really tough time believing some of this. I just attended UVA's School of Education graduation yesterday, where literally for more than 2 hours, non-stop I heard the names called out for individuals graduating with bachelors and masters in education, as well as 20+PhDs. My DC was one of them earning a masters and does not yet have a job (despite applying to every single public school system in northern virginia, as well as a handful of private schools), and tells me the majority of their classmates are in the same boat. There is a shortage of math and some science teachers, and special ed for sure, but an overall dire shortage of teachers - sorry do not believe it.
Anonymous
05/22/2023 14:08
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Our son's private is also experiencing an exodus, this year and last. Several teachers returned to public school systems for higher pay while others left the profession. The teachers hired in their places have been less qualified, not able to explain concepts, and/or not able to take control of classroom distractions (which is why I am back on this forum as we decided to move him back to public).
Anonymous
05/22/2023 13:15
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s a nationwide exodus of teachers. If APS bucks that trend, you should consider it a very good sign for the health of the district.
That depends on which teachers are making the exodus. A slew of retiring teachers isn't necessarily a bad thing. I am happy to hear of a few leaving our high school (retiring) after this year. There are certain others whose departures would be welcomed as well, and whose vacancies could offer an improvement for the students. A slew of good teachers in their prime leaving for other districts or other careers is not a good thing.
Nationwide it is NOT just retiring teachers. It’s all ages and experience levels, coupled with all-time low enrollment in Education programs at university.
Anonymous
05/22/2023 12:34
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Anonymous wrote:There’s a nationwide exodus of teachers. If APS bucks that trend, you should consider it a very good sign for the health of the district.
That depends on which teachers are making the exodus. A slew of retiring teachers isn't necessarily a bad thing. I am happy to hear of a few leaving our high school (retiring) after this year. There are certain others whose departures would be welcomed as well, and whose vacancies could offer an improvement for the students. A slew of good teachers in their prime leaving for other districts or other careers is not a good thing.
Anonymous
05/22/2023 07:36
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
There’s a nationwide exodus of teachers. If APS bucks that trend, you should consider it a very good sign for the health of the district.
Anonymous
05/22/2023 07:01
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
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Anonymous
05/22/2023 06:12
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Contracts come out June 9th. It will be interesting to see what things look like after that.
Anonymous
05/21/2023 23:31
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
No exodus in our elementary school. A couple of teachers retired and another one got married and moved to Florida
Anonymous
05/20/2023 23:09
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Anonymous wrote:Can you blame them? I’m surprised there aren’t more.
+1
Anonymous
05/20/2023 23:08
Subject: Re:Exodus of APS teachers?
Guess it depends what grade. There are some MS/HS jobs posted.
Anonymous
05/20/2023 21:32
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Other than special ed the APS website doesn’t have that many teacher openings. I know because I’ve got a couple friends graduating with masters in education hoping to teach in APS.
Anonymous
05/20/2023 20:40
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Can you blame them? I’m surprised there aren’t more.
Anonymous
05/20/2023 18:20
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Very dependent on the school.
Anonymous
05/20/2023 18:17
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
My school seems pretty stable right now, I know of three retirements who are going to be difficult to replace. We have good admin
Anonymous
05/20/2023 17:21
Subject: Exodus of APS teachers?
Is anyone seeing this at their school...does it look like a lot of teachers will be leaving at the end of the year?