Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 23:06     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My principal does not post openings and handles departures/hirings behind the scenes...even senior staff are often kept in the dark about what's actually going on. I guess she thinks the high turnover reflects poorly on her, or doesn't want to bother with hiring committees, etc.? Anyway there are WAY more vacancies than the ones listed.



This! We have a classroom teacher opening not even posted. Don’t assume anything. There will be a lot of kids starting the year with subs 😢


My best friend's FCPS 8th grader had 3 long-term subs this year. This means a "teacher" (bless them) who's getting lesson, tests, etc. from the content team and passing them along to students via Schoology to "read the stuff" and "do the slides," not teaching. And it's going to get worse?

I'm a secondary teacher and am desperately trying to do the math that lets me stay home and homeschool my own 2 kids rather than have them in this mess of non-education. Never comsidered it before now but am seriously worried about both my job effectiveness and my kids' actual learning.


I’m a teacher who homeschooled my DD. She’s in college now and I’m so happy we did it.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 22:03     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My principal does not post openings and handles departures/hirings behind the scenes...even senior staff are often kept in the dark about what's actually going on. I guess she thinks the high turnover reflects poorly on her, or doesn't want to bother with hiring committees, etc.? Anyway there are WAY more vacancies than the ones listed.



This! We have a classroom teacher opening not even posted. Don’t assume anything. There will be a lot of kids starting the year with subs 😢


My best friend's FCPS 8th grader had 3 long-term subs this year. This means a "teacher" (bless them) who's getting lesson, tests, etc. from the content team and passing them along to students via Schoology to "read the stuff" and "do the slides," not teaching. And it's going to get worse?

I'm a secondary teacher and am desperately trying to do the math that lets me stay home and homeschool my own 2 kids rather than have them in this mess of non-education. Never comsidered it before now but am seriously worried about both my job effectiveness and my kids' actual learning.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 21:17     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:My principal does not post openings and handles departures/hirings behind the scenes...even senior staff are often kept in the dark about what's actually going on. I guess she thinks the high turnover reflects poorly on her, or doesn't want to bother with hiring committees, etc.? Anyway there are WAY more vacancies than the ones listed.



This! We have a classroom teacher opening not even posted. Don’t assume anything. There will be a lot of kids starting the year with subs 😢
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 20:42     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
My principal does not post openings and handles departures/hirings behind the scenes...even senior staff are often kept in the dark about what's actually going on. I guess she thinks the high turnover reflects poorly on her, or doesn't want to bother with hiring committees, etc.? Anyway there are WAY more vacancies than the ones listed.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 19:11     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Many people posted that having one listing could mean multiple vacancies. So 1-3 vacancies could be 5-8.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 10:01     Subject: How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Our ES newsletter this morning listed 13 departures, but the FCPS vacancy list has only 1 listing. So, either they did gangbusters hiring or that vacancy list is very wrong. I assume the latter...

This is a great ES with a popular principal. The list was pretty evenly split between retirements, moving, and seeking new opportunities/becoming SAHM.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 07:44     Subject: How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parent here. I checked the vacancy list and there are many openings at Sleepy Hollow, where DD goes.


I work for the county and the amount of vacancies is nothing that I have seen before. Also - the school board reported on their premier workforce goal and they admitted that they had made no progress towards their goal of having 5 highly qualified candidates apply for each teaching position.

I wonder if they mean they aren’t getting 5 highly qualified applicants or 5 applicants total. I wouldn’t be shocked either way


One specific school I am thinking about is having to hire all provisionally licensed sped staff - By highly qualified I guess they mean fully licensed and experienced? I am not sure of the criteria.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 06:58     Subject: How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parent here. I checked the vacancy list and there are many openings at Sleepy Hollow, where DD goes.


I work for the county and the amount of vacancies is nothing that I have seen before. Also - the school board reported on their premier workforce goal and they admitted that they had made no progress towards their goal of having 5 highly qualified candidates apply for each teaching position.

I wonder if they mean they aren’t getting 5 highly qualified applicants or 5 applicants total. I wouldn’t be shocked either way
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 06:45     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:I'm in the WSHS pyramid. Looked at the elementary feeder schools. All of them only have 1-3 openings. Even the high school only has 2 openings. Obviously, the staff shortage is not uniform across the county. And morale is high both at our base elementary school and our AAP center school.

FCPS certainly has challenges in front of it and ahead of it, but this "sky is falling" or "Titanic" mentality is sheer hyperbole.


I’m the one who posted that I and 3 others resigned. We’re up to at least 14 retirements & resignations (not even counting transfers) yet only 3 are posted.

Believe what you want but let’s chat again in 10 weeks.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 06:16     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
I'm in the WSHS pyramid. Looked at the elementary feeder schools. All of them only have 1-3 openings. Even the high school only has 2 openings. Obviously, the staff shortage is not uniform across the county. And morale is high both at our base elementary school and our AAP center school.

FCPS certainly has challenges in front of it and ahead of it, but this "sky is falling" or "Titanic" mentality is sheer hyperbole.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 05:51     Subject: How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
There are only 2 at my DD's school.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 05:51     Subject: How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:Parent here. I checked the vacancy list and there are many openings at Sleepy Hollow, where DD goes.


I work for the county and the amount of vacancies is nothing that I have seen before. Also - the school board reported on their premier workforce goal and they admitted that they had made no progress towards their goal of having 5 highly qualified candidates apply for each teaching position.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2022 05:38     Subject: How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Parent here. I checked the vacancy list and there are many openings at Sleepy Hollow, where DD goes.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2022 18:19     Subject: Re:How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
Anonymous wrote:4 teachers (myself included) resigned at my school today.

Y’all who keep claiming “all is normal” - good luck steering away from the iceberg.


LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I just watched Titanic last night. It seems as though FCPS is also heading for the ocean floor.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2022 14:15     Subject: How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?
I just checked and DD's school has zero vacancies listed. Looking through the openings, it seems like certain schools have a lot more than others. It seems that FCPS will remain a two tier school system