Didn't Beverly farms just have a principal turnover?

I repeat - no teachers are leaving Beverly Farms, where my DD will be in 5th. I'm not sure why you care about the other schools.

Meaning: does anyone in central MCPS collect data on staff attrition at schools? Any involved parents or admin on here who know?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone keep formal data on this?

On what? Teacher attrition or the prices of houses?

Attrition

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Why all these sarcastic comments about Beverly Farms? Isn't Beverly Farms taking in mostly kids in the more modest area of Potomac? A lot of the houses there are cheaper than Rockville.

Modesty doesn't mean low price or lower income. Save the modest adjective for people or places that are low-key, non-ostentatious, and that don't try to attach a quantitative $ value to everything in their life.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone keep formal data on this?

On what? Teacher attrition or the prices of houses?

Does anyone keep formal data on this?

Modest areas? Hardly. Try most homes in the $1.5M range.

Anonymous wrote:No teachers have left Beverly Farms in a while - another proof point that it is the best ES in MoCo.

Why all these sarcastic comments about Beverly Farms? Isn't Beverly Farms taking in mostly kids in the more modest area of Potomac? A lot of the houses there are cheaper than Rockville.

Lol, it's a pretty good sign!

No teachers have left Beverly Farms in a while - another proof point that it is the best ES in MoCo.

Ha! I think we can agree that no one wants to lose the best teachers, because any new ones coming in MIGHT be good, but if we are losing our kids' known great ones, that is a definite negative. Plus the school could get teachers who are "placed there" as opposed to chosen, because they were surplussed from some other school that had cuts, and the new ones could be god awful. Continuity/long teacher tenures in a school tend to suggest it's a happy place to work and teachers feel supported. This is good for our kids, of course. I do think it makes sense to make note of these kinds of trends--as parents, but especially within the school system leadership.

Anonymous wrote:Disagree. I think the same teachers should remain at the school until all of my kids are done, and then they can leave. As long as my kids get the best teachers, I don't care if some leave. I have one in 4th and one in first.

And they better not even THINK of getting pregnant and going on maternity leave during the school year!

Disagree. I think the same teachers should remain at the school until all of my kids are done, and then they can leave. As long as my kids get the best teachers, I don't care if some leave. I have one in 4th and one in first.

Okay. So everyone agrees unhappy teachers do not make for a good school experience for the kids. We know that, no one here is being naive about that, so whoever suggested it needs to readjust their glasses and re-read the thread.

Our ES has had a bunch of teachers leave this year. Two are great teachers and we're sad to see them go. One is a miserable old harridan who shouts constantly - she is retiring and we're glad to see her go. Another one or two have had babies and are relocating to new jobs, to be nearer family.

Should I suspect there is something adrift at school because of these exists? No, of course not.

Parents get bent out of shape because they think that keeping the same teachers all the way through gives continuity of teaching, curriculum, culture. When in fact it does not. They are having a knee jerk reaction because they bought their house in the W cluster (as did we, I should add) and think because they "bought into"that neighborhood that it should always be as "good" as when the money was laid down.

But teachers moving around doesn't make the school any less. Sometimes the new teachers are the great ones, with relevant experience and things to prove.

Jesus wept.