New vacancies popping up now-wow. My older child's high school had some in June-very few in July and now more in August.

An email from Solomon says they tabled the sign idea. Ridiculous to spend money on that when teachers are buying their own class supplies and IAs who work with the most challenging kids don't even make enough to afford a one bedroom apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:Per the employee Facebook group apparently it was someone in HRs bright idea to stick up yard signs “celebrating fully staffed schools”. While they were calculating this brilliant plan that alarms the public and lets them know that some schools aren’t fully staffed, we are still sitting on over 100 open positions. They will probably cancel it once they see the backlash.

Wow - completely tone deaf!

Thank William “Billy” Solomon - the newest “Chief” recruited from Texas. The guy is incompetent and so out of his league.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently they have been bombarding the subs with emails to long term sub to start the school year.

I think I received 14 of those emails on Thursday.

As far as the yard signs, the message was something along the lines of schools that are fully staffed will be getting yard signs “celebrating their accomplishment”. I thought that seemed odd, as if those that aren’t staffed are somehow slacking or can be shamed into hiring?

At quick count there are 116 different schools with positions on the ES Vacancy List. So I guess 24 get a yard sign.

Apparently they have been bombarding the subs with emails to long term sub to start the school year.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus.
A fully staffed school two weeks before the year starts is the base expectation. What people assume to he the norm. Puting up signs?!?!

It’s also isn’t always in the principals control (a teacher at my school quit last week). This seems like messy work politics.

Jesus.
A fully staffed school two weeks before the year starts is the base expectation. What people assume to he the norm. Puting up signs?!?!

Anonymous wrote:Per the employee Facebook group apparently it was someone in HRs bright idea to stick up yard signs “celebrating fully staffed schools”. While they were calculating this brilliant plan that alarms the public and lets them know that some schools aren’t fully staffed, we are still sitting on over 100 open positions. They will probably cancel it once they see the backlash.

Wow. I have no words...

Anonymous wrote:Per the employee Facebook group apparently it was someone in HRs bright idea to stick up yard signs “celebrating fully staffed schools”. While they were calculating this brilliant plan that alarms the public and lets them know that some schools aren’t fully staffed, we are still sitting on over 100 open positions. They will probably cancel it once they see the backlash.

Wow - completely tone deaf!

Per the employee Facebook group apparently it was someone in HRs bright idea to stick up yard signs “celebrating fully staffed schools”. While they were calculating this brilliant plan that alarms the public and lets them know that some schools aren’t fully staffed, we are still sitting on over 100 open positions. They will probably cancel it once they see the backlash.

We have quite a few teachers in my district from the Philippines. They are excellent teachers but many can’t deal with the behavior issues and disrespect. They stay because they need the money to send home to family and to pay off their loans it took to get them the visa.

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent send out her email for the week. They got 300 teachers from overseas.

I’m sure that they’ll also become disenfranchised with the American public school system.

These international teachers are in for a shock. A lot of these teachers are coming from places where the teaching style is still low tech and very traditional. Kids in rows, uniforms, lectures, low computer usage. I know that we are going to get great teachers from this but the learning curve is going to be insane.

Frankly, if we still had a traditional classroom like this, many of the problems we currently have would be solved. Kids respond to their environment, and when they’re allowed to sit in casual clusters/groupings and talk amongst themselves, they know there are no real behavioral expectations.

Bring back seating in rows and all of the other things you mentioned. Behavior would improve exponentially.
DP

And how many years have you been teaching for?

Anonymous wrote:Did they say which country?

No but the program is called Participate Learning and on their instagram it looks like most of them are coming from Kenya, the Philippines and various Caribbean and South American countries.

Did they say which country?

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent send out her email for the week. They got 300 teachers from overseas.

I’m sure that they’ll also become disenfranchised with the American public school system.

These international teachers are in for a shock. A lot of these teachers are coming from places where the teaching style is still low tech and very traditional. Kids in rows, uniforms, lectures, low computer usage. I know that we are going to get great teachers from this but the learning curve is going to be insane.

Frankly, if we still had a traditional classroom like this, many of the problems we currently have would be solved. Kids respond to their environment, and when they’re allowed to sit in casual clusters/groupings and talk amongst themselves, they know there are no real behavioral expectations.

Bring back seating in rows and all of the other things you mentioned. Behavior would improve exponentially.
DP