What school is this about

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Anonymous wrote:Pay is so bad at privates compared to publics. Seems like the only people who stick with it 5+ years have family money or a spouse who makes good money.

Or a child enrolled at the school.
Or they’re kind of mediocre but have a lot of social capital among families and fellow teachers.
Lots of possibilities.

Social capital doesn’t pay the bills.

Plenty of people have been teaching for 15-20 years, bought a house at a relatively low price, and would rather be comfortable than rich.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay is so bad at privates compared to publics. Seems like the only people who stick with it 5+ years have family money or a spouse who makes good money.

Or a child enrolled at the school.
Or they’re kind of mediocre but have a lot of social capital among families and fellow teachers.
Lots of possibilities.

Social capital doesn’t pay the bills.

Anonymous wrote:Pay is so bad at privates compared to publics. Seems like the only people who stick with it 5+ years have family money or a spouse who makes good money.

Or a child enrolled at the school.
Or they’re kind of mediocre but have a lot of social capital among families and fellow teachers.
Lots of possibilities.

Pay is so bad at privates compared to publics. Seems like the only people who stick with it 5+ years have family money or a spouse who makes good money.

Our school has had excellent retention since 21-22, but this year is a mess. K-8 and there isn’t a single grade without FMLA, a teacher not returning due to what’s obviously a contract non-renewal, and weak teachers left in a lot of grades. I think sometimes things just hit the fan all at once and/or long stretches of conflict or PIPs finally come to their natural conclusions.

It’s unsettling even if it’s normal because I don’t see a huge pool of potential candidates for these jobs stepping up. Some schools will get lucky but everyone else might be playing musical chairs with the B and C teams.

I spoke with some teachers in my kids school. And more than leaving in middle of the year, the teachers acknowledge some retention issues. But don’t think it’s specific to one school but a nationwide phenomenon.

I think a music teacher left for health reasons and and a pe teacher left.

I think there are hypersensitive parents that are bothered by specific topics. They might need some therapy to deal with those issues.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed that the academic background of the recent hires is very weak. On the contrary older teachers are much better at teaching and dealing with kids at school.

For instance the recent math teacher in my kid school comes from a public school where none the kids are proficient in math according to state evaluations. Also every month 1 teacher is leaving. So the shortage is very disruptive and it seems that the school is not raising salaries to retain top talent. This in spite of setting the tuition at 50+k. Do you experience something similar?

Just a wild guess, but would you say they’re not spending this money on teachers because they’re instead using it to hire new administrators to new positions via controversial hiring processes?

The school you're alluding to doesn't have faculty leaving mid-year every month. Must be another K-12 school.

No. But it has a troll who’s resorted to starting generic threads like this as a way to try to continue to keep it front and center on this site.

You are the one who brought up that school, not OP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed that the academic background of the recent hires is very weak. On the contrary older teachers are much better at teaching and dealing with kids at school.

For instance the recent math teacher in my kid school comes from a public school where none the kids are proficient in math according to state evaluations. Also every month 1 teacher is leaving. So the shortage is very disruptive and it seems that the school is not raising salaries to retain top talent. This in spite of setting the tuition at 50+k. Do you experience something similar?

Just a wild guess, but would you say they’re not spending this money on teachers because they’re instead using it to hire new administrators to new positions via controversial hiring processes?

The school you're alluding to doesn't have faculty leaving mid-year every month. Must be another K-12 school.

No. But it has a troll who’s resorted to starting generic threads like this as a way to try to continue to keep it front and center on this site.

The topic is relevant for many schools. Unless of course you are Jeff and can decide what to delete.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed that the academic background of the recent hires is very weak. On the contrary older teachers are much better at teaching and dealing with kids at school.

For instance the recent math teacher in my kid school comes from a public school where none the kids are proficient in math according to state evaluations. Also every month 1 teacher is leaving. So the shortage is very disruptive and it seems that the school is not raising salaries to retain top talent. This in spite of setting the tuition at 50+k. Do you experience something similar?

Just a wild guess, but would you say they’re not spending this money on teachers because they’re instead using it to hire new administrators to new positions via controversial hiring processes?

The school you're alluding to doesn't have faculty leaving mid-year every month. Must be another K-12 school.

Some left mid-year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed that the academic background of the recent hires is very weak. On the contrary older teachers are much better at teaching and dealing with kids at school.

For instance the recent math teacher in my kid school comes from a public school where none the kids are proficient in math according to state evaluations. Also every month 1 teacher is leaving. So the shortage is very disruptive and it seems that the school is not raising salaries to retain top talent. This in spite of setting the tuition at 50+k. Do you experience something similar?

Just a wild guess, but would you say they’re not spending this money on teachers because they’re instead using it to hire new administrators to new positions via controversial hiring processes?

The school you're alluding to doesn't have faculty leaving mid-year every month. Must be another K-12 school.

No. But it has a troll who’s resorted to starting generic threads like this as a way to try to continue to keep it front and center on this site.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed that the academic background of the recent hires is very weak. On the contrary older teachers are much better at teaching and dealing with kids at school.

For instance the recent math teacher in my kid school comes from a public school where none the kids are proficient in math according to state evaluations. Also every month 1 teacher is leaving. So the shortage is very disruptive and it seems that the school is not raising salaries to retain top talent. This in spite of setting the tuition at 50+k. Do you experience something similar?

Do you mean leaving in the middle of the school year - or announcing they won't return next year? If they are leaving mid-year this is very uncommon and the sign of a large problem. If they are announcing next year, it depends - transition does happen and sometimes it seems like a lot when it actually isn't (but I can't speak to whether this is a normal amount of transtion at your school)

Leaving in the middle of the year.

Was there some unique circumstances that occurred this year that would cause this time of departure wave? Something like a controversial new HOS taking over from a prior HOS that had been there for decades, perhaps? Just one example I could think of that would shake things up like this.

That’s definitely one possibility. Another one is the obnoxious parents that think they know everything about the school. Hard to tell. 🤔

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed that the academic background of the recent hires is very weak. On the contrary older teachers are much better at teaching and dealing with kids at school.

For instance the recent math teacher in my kid school comes from a public school where none the kids are proficient in math according to state evaluations. Also every month 1 teacher is leaving. So the shortage is very disruptive and it seems that the school is not raising salaries to retain top talent. This in spite of setting the tuition at 50+k. Do you experience something similar?

Just a wild guess, but would you say they’re not spending this money on teachers because they’re instead using it to hire new administrators to new positions via controversial hiring processes?

The school you're alluding to doesn't have faculty leaving mid-year every month. Must be another K-12 school.