Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 22:51     Subject: Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Do you have an active LSAT? I'd expect them to be aware of shortages like that and what the principal is doing about it. Reading minutes isn't glamorous but that's where I'd expect to find stuff like that.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 21:55     Subject: Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
DCPS teacher here. It is sad to hear about teachers leaving. Obviously students lose out. Parents have to accept the teacher leaving and obviously for a good reason.

We are all forgetting the reasons behind teachers leaving. There are numerous including lack of money, lack of planning time, too many students, too many classes, and so on. Fix these problems and teachers will be less likely to quit mid-year.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 21:34     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade science teacher who didn't return from winter break has left their students with no science instruction for the past 3 weeks because the random subs who change daily are not providing any instruction. There have been no grades posted for this teacher's classes since the second week of the advisory and the grading period ends next week. No communication from administration and no clue if the kids will receive any science instruction for the rest of the school year. What a bust!


Sorry, but you know, there is a pretty serious teacher shortage right now.

Is there a shortage of the ability for the administration to communicate with parents? It would be nice to get some type of update from the school even if the update is just "sorry, we don't have a teacher right now. We're working on it."


We got that message from Deal when our kid's sixth-grade science teacher decided to bail on the school about a week before it started this year, so they have sent those messages previously. But they were able to simply disperse all those teacher's students to other classes while they tried to hire another teacher. I'm guessing that's not so easy to do midyear.


“Decided to bail” get a grip, there are 6 weeks out of the year it is “acceptable” for teachers to have any sort of change in their life. I have known teachers who have been diagnosed with cancer, lost spouses, or been suicidal, and had to leave mid year and the hate and shame they get is insane. In any other job you can make a life change at any point, but teachers are locked in for 90% of the year and if something comes up there will be an anonymous form shitting on them for it.

As a teacher I have had parents complain to my FACE about colleague out for chemotherapy, colleagues out on bereavement, all of this on top of the parents who have asked if I plan on becoming pregnant or if I am pregnant so they can avoid a substitute (the cherry on top is that I have been dealing with fertility issues).

If you have any confusion of why there is a teacher shortage spend 5 minutes on this website and it should be clear. You can be pissed about the lack of communication I think that’s fair, but your attitude about the teacher who left is why many quit.


Ok, she "decided to leave the school one week before the school year began." Is that language any better? Doesn't change the fact of what she did.



Language and semantics matter. You have no idea why she resigned. Teachers lose out on a bonus if we resigned after a certain date before the next school year, she wouldn’t have given that up if she didn’t have a good reason.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 10:37     Subject: Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:What Deal lacks in core subject instruction will be made up for by intense anti-racism instruction.


Then you should move to Florida. Great winter weather and beaches and no chance your kid will be “made uncomfortable” or waste precious instruction time on of lynchings, Tulsa 1921, Jim Crow segregation and so on. And they can totally embrace the luck of having the same skin color of the race who built this country and ran it so well, excel in the sciences, set the right moral standards and so on. Enjoy
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 10:28     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade science teacher who didn't return from winter break has left their students with no science instruction for the past 3 weeks because the random subs who change daily are not providing any instruction. There have been no grades posted for this teacher's classes since the second week of the advisory and the grading period ends next week. No communication from administration and no clue if the kids will receive any science instruction for the rest of the school year. What a bust!


Sorry, but you know, there is a pretty serious teacher shortage right now.

Is there a shortage of the ability for the administration to communicate with parents? It would be nice to get some type of update from the school even if the update is just "sorry, we don't have a teacher right now. We're working on it."


We got that message from Deal when our kid's sixth-grade science teacher decided to bail on the school about a week before it started this year, so they have sent those messages previously. But they were able to simply disperse all those teacher's students to other classes while they tried to hire another teacher. I'm guessing that's not so easy to do midyear.


“Decided to bail” get a grip, there are 6 weeks out of the year it is “acceptable” for teachers to have any sort of change in their life. I have known teachers who have been diagnosed with cancer, lost spouses, or been suicidal, and had to leave mid year and the hate and shame they get is insane. In any other job you can make a life change at any point, but teachers are locked in for 90% of the year and if something comes up there will be an anonymous form shitting on them for it.

As a teacher I have had parents complain to my FACE about colleague out for chemotherapy, colleagues out on bereavement, all of this on top of the parents who have asked if I plan on becoming pregnant or if I am pregnant so they can avoid a substitute (the cherry on top is that I have been dealing with fertility issues).

If you have any confusion of why there is a teacher shortage spend 5 minutes on this website and it should be clear. You can be pissed about the lack of communication I think that’s fair, but your attitude about the teacher who left is why many quit.


Ok, she "decided to leave the school one week before the school year began." Is that language any better? Doesn't change the fact of what she did.


I’m less concerned with the one that peaced out in August than the one that hasn’t been in the building since December.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 10:00     Subject: Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
What Deal lacks in core subject instruction will be made up for by intense anti-racism instruction.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 09:43     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade science teacher who didn't return from winter break has left their students with no science instruction for the past 3 weeks because the random subs who change daily are not providing any instruction. There have been no grades posted for this teacher's classes since the second week of the advisory and the grading period ends next week. No communication from administration and no clue if the kids will receive any science instruction for the rest of the school year. What a bust!


Sorry, but you know, there is a pretty serious teacher shortage right now.

Is there a shortage of the ability for the administration to communicate with parents? It would be nice to get some type of update from the school even if the update is just "sorry, we don't have a teacher right now. We're working on it."


We got that message from Deal when our kid's sixth-grade science teacher decided to bail on the school about a week before it started this year, so they have sent those messages previously. But they were able to simply disperse all those teacher's students to other classes while they tried to hire another teacher. I'm guessing that's not so easy to do midyear.


“Decided to bail” get a grip, there are 6 weeks out of the year it is “acceptable” for teachers to have any sort of change in their life. I have known teachers who have been diagnosed with cancer, lost spouses, or been suicidal, and had to leave mid year and the hate and shame they get is insane. In any other job you can make a life change at any point, but teachers are locked in for 90% of the year and if something comes up there will be an anonymous form shitting on them for it.

As a teacher I have had parents complain to my FACE about colleague out for chemotherapy, colleagues out on bereavement, all of this on top of the parents who have asked if I plan on becoming pregnant or if I am pregnant so they can avoid a substitute (the cherry on top is that I have been dealing with fertility issues).

If you have any confusion of why there is a teacher shortage spend 5 minutes on this website and it should be clear. You can be pissed about the lack of communication I think that’s fair, but your attitude about the teacher who left is why many quit.


Ok, she "decided to leave the school one week before the school year began." Is that language any better? Doesn't change the fact of what she did.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 08:13     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade science teacher who didn't return from winter break has left their students with no science instruction for the past 3 weeks because the random subs who change daily are not providing any instruction. There have been no grades posted for this teacher's classes since the second week of the advisory and the grading period ends next week. No communication from administration and no clue if the kids will receive any science instruction for the rest of the school year. What a bust!


Sorry, but you know, there is a pretty serious teacher shortage right now.

Is there a shortage of the ability for the administration to communicate with parents? It would be nice to get some type of update from the school even if the update is just "sorry, we don't have a teacher right now. We're working on it."


We got that message from Deal when our kid's sixth-grade science teacher decided to bail on the school about a week before it started this year, so they have sent those messages previously. But they were able to simply disperse all those teacher's students to other classes while they tried to hire another teacher. I'm guessing that's not so easy to do midyear.

When the Social Studies quit mid year last year - they elevated the student teacher to a teacher.
The kids did not learn a thing.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 01:25     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade science teacher who didn't return from winter break has left their students with no science instruction for the past 3 weeks because the random subs who change daily are not providing any instruction. There have been no grades posted for this teacher's classes since the second week of the advisory and the grading period ends next week. No communication from administration and no clue if the kids will receive any science instruction for the rest of the school year. What a bust!


Sorry, but you know, there is a pretty serious teacher shortage right now.

Is there a shortage of the ability for the administration to communicate with parents? It would be nice to get some type of update from the school even if the update is just "sorry, we don't have a teacher right now. We're working on it."


We got that message from Deal when our kid's sixth-grade science teacher decided to bail on the school about a week before it started this year, so they have sent those messages previously. But they were able to simply disperse all those teacher's students to other classes while they tried to hire another teacher. I'm guessing that's not so easy to do midyear.


“Decided to bail” get a grip, there are 6 weeks out of the year it is “acceptable” for teachers to have any sort of change in their life. I have known teachers who have been diagnosed with cancer, lost spouses, or been suicidal, and had to leave mid year and the hate and shame they get is insane. In any other job you can make a life change at any point, but teachers are locked in for 90% of the year and if something comes up there will be an anonymous form shitting on them for it.

As a teacher I have had parents complain to my FACE about colleague out for chemotherapy, colleagues out on bereavement, all of this on top of the parents who have asked if I plan on becoming pregnant or if I am pregnant so they can avoid a substitute (the cherry on top is that I have been dealing with fertility issues).

If you have any confusion of why there is a teacher shortage spend 5 minutes on this website and it should be clear. You can be pissed about the lack of communication I think that’s fair, but your attitude about the teacher who left is why many quit.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2023 07:54     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade science teacher who didn't return from winter break has left their students with no science instruction for the past 3 weeks because the random subs who change daily are not providing any instruction. There have been no grades posted for this teacher's classes since the second week of the advisory and the grading period ends next week. No communication from administration and no clue if the kids will receive any science instruction for the rest of the school year. What a bust!


Sorry, but you know, there is a pretty serious teacher shortage right now.

Is there a shortage of the ability for the administration to communicate with parents? It would be nice to get some type of update from the school even if the update is just "sorry, we don't have a teacher right now. We're working on it."


We got that message from Deal when our kid's sixth-grade science teacher decided to bail on the school about a week before it started this year, so they have sent those messages previously. But they were able to simply disperse all those teacher's students to other classes while they tried to hire another teacher. I'm guessing that's not so easy to do midyear.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2023 16:09     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
they never communicate about missing teachers.

My son once had no English teacher for 2 months before the school said anything.

Then during the pandemic he has a teacher who was hospitalized for Covid and didn't show up and the school didn't say anything about the missing teacher.
The kids just logged on daily and there was no teacher on the calls for about 5 school weeks. Eventually the teacher just reappeared.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2023 14:49     Subject: Re:Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade science teacher who didn't return from winter break has left their students with no science instruction for the past 3 weeks because the random subs who change daily are not providing any instruction. There have been no grades posted for this teacher's classes since the second week of the advisory and the grading period ends next week. No communication from administration and no clue if the kids will receive any science instruction for the rest of the school year. What a bust!


Sorry, but you know, there is a pretty serious teacher shortage right now.

Is there a shortage of the ability for the administration to communicate with parents? It would be nice to get some type of update from the school even if the update is just "sorry, we don't have a teacher right now. We're working on it."
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2023 14:15     Subject: Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Anonymous wrote:Oh yes you do get upset. I’m a DCPS teacher and think it’s unconscionable that there has been no communication about the teacher’s absence and the status of a replacement.


Oh you can get upset and harm your health from the stress. But it won't change anything at Deal or Jackson Reed.
Better to just relax and realize that this is par for the course at Deal.
I have 3 kids and each one had a year where they went without a teacher in a major subject for 6 months+

I had enough of this foolery and moved them to private for 9th.
Friends who continued on to Jackson Reed (and Walls) report all sorts of missing teachers.
Daughter's best friend is currently missing 2 at JR.

You can get upset about this or just accept it as a part of life in DCPS (or do something about it by moving your kid(s) out of the system).
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2023 13:38     Subject: Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
Oh yes you do get upset. I’m a DCPS teacher and think it’s unconscionable that there has been no communication about the teacher’s absence and the status of a replacement.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2023 13:27     Subject: Did one of the Deal science teachers quit?
This is very typical for Deal. it's rare to go through 3 years without missing a core teacher for months on end. Jackson Reed is worse.

If you want teachers in all subjects, pay for private. in DCPS you get what you get and you don't get upset.