Do not come to FCPS. It is run by thugs who put career over curriculum. Administrators are poorly trained and disincentivized to do what’s right for students. Students get killed in this district (see Herndon HS) before administrators respond to calls for help.

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t these instructional specialists develop curriculum for all teachers since they stoped using paper textbooks? Let’s get teachers off “Teachers Pay Teachers” and create quality curriculum materials and consistency.

They should dump 90% of EdTech, return the "specialists" to classroom teaching positions and bring back actual textbooks.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and the admin is so bloated. It's not just principals and AP's in high school - there are many layers under that, and a ton of "coaches" and "coordinators" and similar people who, as far as I can tell, do absolutely nothing but create a paper trail and waste our time. Oh, and slide shows - they make lots of slide shows.

Another teacher here and I agree. There are too many people desperate to get out of the classroom, so new positions keep popping up. Each position creates more work for the existing teachers because they have to produce something to justify their office jobs.

And to the poster above who mentioned TPT lessons: please don’t expect the new specialist positions to create curriculum. The true experts are still on the classroom teaching, but they are too bogged down with admin-driven tasks to make meaningful curricula choices.

I'm a teacher and the admin is so bloated. It's not just principals and AP's in high school - there are many layers under that, and a ton of "coaches" and "coordinators" and similar people who, as far as I can tell, do absolutely nothing but create a paper trail and waste our time. Oh, and slide shows - they make lots of slide shows.

Why don’t these instructional specialists develop curriculum for all teachers since they stoped using paper textbooks? Let’s get teachers off “Teachers Pay Teachers” and create quality curriculum materials and consistency.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this true? https://x.com/EdNewsVA/status/2031089292022288596

We just moved to the area for the schools. It's hard to believe they're cutting teachers when they're paying central staff so much.

Nice try, we know you didn't just move to the area.

DP. Just stop. You don’t know what you don’t know. It’s so obnoxious when people on this forum make assumptions about other posters.

Anonymous wrote:They are definitely cutting teachers. Our enrollment hasn't shifted but due to staffing ratios our department is losing half a teaching position.

Enrollment overall is down. There are teachers at other schools that are "overstaffed."

They are definitely cutting teachers. Our enrollment hasn't shifted but due to staffing ratios our department is losing half a teaching position.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this true? https://x.com/EdNewsVA/status/2031089292022288596

We just moved to the area for the schools. It's hard to believe they're cutting teachers when they're paying central staff so much.

Oh no! A massive school system has *gasp* administrative overhead?!

That's too much. All those "instructional specialists" who create additional paperwork for those who teach.

Anonymous wrote:Is this true? https://x.com/EdNewsVA/status/2031089292022288596

We just moved to the area for the schools. It's hard to believe they're cutting teachers when they're paying central staff so much.

Oh no! A massive school system has *gasp* administrative overhead?!

Is this true? https://x.com/EdNewsVA/status/2031089292022288596

We just moved to the area for the schools. It's hard to believe they're cutting teachers when they're paying central staff so much.