The long term sub thing is not new. In 7th grade way back in the 80's my sister had a long term science sub almost the whole year. The next year the teacher came back for a week and then left for the rest of the year. I ended up with a long term (very bad) sub for the rest of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, welcome to the teacher shortage.

I mean, what do people expect? During the pandemic parents devalued the role of the teacher, expressing that they were now their child’s teacher. The classroom teachers just sat at home collecting a paycheck when we “closed” schools for two years. Such a toxic response!

Meanwhile teachers were busting their @sses to learn new technology, curriculum, and recreating their lessons to make them engaging online.

Now they’re back (well some) in the building and have been thrown a bunch of students that have no repercussions for destructive, aggressive behaviors. On top of it, there’s a teacher shortage and admin wants to micromanage the ones still hanging by a thread.

The best teachers either have left or are trying to figure out how to leave MCPS/teaching.

We are headed to a really bad place with no relief in sight.

-my 2¢

It wasn't two years. It was one school year and a few months. All teachers except those in the virtual academy are back in school.

Most of the teachers never fully figured out the technology.

This has nothing to do with the teacher shortage.

Not "all" teachers. PP's point was, most of them quit. Most of the teachers did figure out the technology. You sound completely clueless, so please don't act like you know why there is a massive teacher shortage. Teachers want out. They'll get out too.

Many teachers still have not figured out the technology, especially how to use a variety of the features and integrate it well within the context of what needs to be taught. Many are using the basic features required by admin or the district(and some still manage not to do that well).

K-12 and heck even some college level education has not kept up with the changing times. Which is why some of the PD days should be given back to teachers to use on PD that would be actually beneficial to them. Even if it meant they had to submit a plan for what courses, training, conferences they were going to do. Contrary to what central office thinks some of them are not the best trainers/facilitators particular to adults.

All that said, back to OP,someone (an Admin) should be helping the subs by being sure they have access to the curriculum and know what lessons need to be taught. If the sub can’t handle that there should be a variety of online tools available that the sub can utilize. And lastly they can combine classes somewhere so that a teacher can teach to a larger group while the sub acts as a assistant teacher to help students, answer questions, work in smaller groups etc.

Kids are also rude. My kids have told me how kids lie to the subs, are disrespectful, don’t listen or follow instructions. So why should the sub try?

As for parents being subs, based on what my kids tell me, I would be scared to do it in MS or HS.

Parents, teach your kids better and maybe the subs will do better.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher went down with a long-term medical issue. School is sending random teachers and subs to cover, no long-term sub.

Covering teacher/sub shows a video and then lets the kids free play games or whatever they want on their Chromeboooks.

This is normal. They wouldn't replace a teacher out on medical leave and they'd use a sub. We had many subs over 6 months. It was terrible. The returning teacher was even worse than some of the subs.

The returning teacher had a medical issue serious enough to miss 6 months of work. It’s likely that they were not ready to return FT when they came back, but MCPS doesn’t allow teachers on long-term medical leave to return PT. She probably returned with unresolved symptoms or with side effects from treatments and walked into a classroom that had a rolling cast of subs for half the year. Pretty much any teacher would struggle with that. Add on student behavioral issues and academic apathy rising in the spring, and you can see how the teacher was likely set up to fail by a sick leave policy that wouldn’t be in place in another profession or most school systems.

No, she was on maternity leave. Stop making up stuff. She was just a bad teacher.

Guessing the games the OP talks about *are* the endorsed websites.

The problem is kids have no accountability to subs who are there just a day or two. Subs don't even know kids' names, let alone the ability to dock grades or punish except for in extreme cases. They can ask the kids to go on those websites, but no real way to enforce.

Teachers complain that kids have little accountability to them, either (only, really, if the kid faces repercussions at home for poor grades). But that's a different issue.