I have been teaching for FCPS for almost 30 years. I've been considering retiring after my 30th year. One reason is because while at the top of the pay scale, my pay has been fairly stagnant the past few years and I figure any future raises will be small. With no more steps the only raise would be any market scale adjustment, which when we get them are typically small. The announcement that those at the top of the scale with get a step increase next year instead of continuing at the same step has the decision scale tipping a little bit more back towards staying beyond 30.
We'll see.

Anonymous wrote:Special education is in big trouble around the nation. I think what will happen eventually is that the department of education is going to have to take over sped as a whole, staff these positions themselves, and pay sped teams more. You could not pay me all the money in the world to teach sped.

+1 those sped teachers are saints

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Cool - 1 school in 200 is all set.

+1 "not my problem" until it is

And people need to realize they aren’t going to leave one school with 10 openings and others with none, they’ll spread out the vacancies to remain operational. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are moving teacher up until the first day of school

Teachers have the right to decline the move. There’s a reason some of these schools have dozens of vacancies.

What happens when they decline? In APS if you don’t take the placement they don’t have to give you a new one

Yeah, good luck enforcing that when they’re already critically short staffed. In 2022, it’s an empty threat, just like “OMG if you quit and leave the baaaaabies mid year, you’ll be blackballed by all surrounding districts!!!” Nope. Not anymore.

+1. Teachers or IAs can decline a transfer to a less desirable school and you'll have no problem getting hired at a better one. This isn't even a transfer/ de-staff, though. It's someone claiming the county will just move a teacher or staff member out of a school that is not overstaffed and place them elsewhere because another school doesn't have enough staff. There's no way a base school would agree to that. Maybe with an itinerant or central position, but otherwise, forget it.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Our school is the same. This is most schools in FCPS.

Serious “Iraqi Information Minister” vibes here. This is absolutely not “most schools in FCPS” - the vacancy list is right there on the website.

It's there every year. Longer than usual but not much, at most schools.

Seriously. The national teacher shortage is a crisis. But it's not dire in FCPS, yet.

This school year 98% of FCPS teaching jobs were filled. The data is on school board documents online. That is not an industry in crisis. Now, the bulk of those 2% unfilled jobs are in fact in special ed, which may well be in crisis as PP suggests.

But most FCPS teachers are happily hanging onto their jobs. Our elementary is losing a receptionist and one classroom teacher, who is in fact changing schools within FCPS, .....a far cry better than most other employers in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Cool - 1 school in 200 is all set.

+1 "not my problem" until it is

And people need to realize they aren’t going to leave one school with 10 openings and others with none, they’ll spread out the vacancies to remain operational. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are moving teacher up until the first day of school

Yeah, I don’t think so.

You “think” wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Cool - 1 school in 200 is all set.

+1 "not my problem" until it is

And people need to realize they aren’t going to leave one school with 10 openings and others with none, they’ll spread out the vacancies to remain operational. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are moving teacher up until the first day of school

Teachers have the right to decline the move. There’s a reason some of these schools have dozens of vacancies.

What happens when they decline? In APS if you don’t take the placement they don’t have to give you a new one

Yeah, good luck enforcing that when they’re already critically short staffed. In 2022, it’s an empty threat, just like “OMG if you quit and leave the baaaaabies mid year, you’ll be blackballed by all surrounding districts!!!” Nope. Not anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever. The economy is tanking. Teachers are already overpaid, especially after the debacle of distance learning.

LOL - overpaid, that was a funny one.

+1. Hilariously clueless.

Anonymous wrote:Special education is in big trouble around the nation. I think what will happen eventually is that the department of education is going to have to take over sped as a whole, staff these positions themselves, and pay sped teams more. You could not pay me all the money in the world to teach sped.

I managed to get transferred out for next year. It’s my last ditch effort to try to stay in education.

Special education is in big trouble around the nation. I think what will happen eventually is that the department of education is going to have to take over sped as a whole, staff these positions themselves, and pay sped teams more. You could not pay me all the money in the world to teach sped.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Cool - 1 school in 200 is all set.

+1 "not my problem" until it is

And people need to realize they aren’t going to leave one school with 10 openings and others with none, they’ll spread out the vacancies to remain operational. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are moving teacher up until the first day of school

Yeah, I don’t think so.

Anonymous wrote:This is why there should be a teacher representative on the school board.

We need collective bargaining. FCPS is dragging it's feet.

RE: poverty, it is expanding. 1 in 3 children in Fairfax County is eligible for F/RMs. That's close to 60K students.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Our school is the same. This is most schools in FCPS.

You’re delusional. 4 vacancies in my department alone. We never have subs.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Cool - 1 school in 200 is all set.

+1 "not my problem" until it is

And people need to realize they aren’t going to leave one school with 10 openings and others with none, they’ll spread out the vacancies to remain operational. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are moving teacher up until the first day of school

Teachers have the right to decline the move. There’s a reason some of these schools have dozens of vacancies.

What happens when they decline? In APS if you don’t take the placement they don’t have to give you a new one

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has no shortage of subs. Plus we had several long term subs for teachers on maternity leave. No vacancies at our school next year. Not worried at all.

Cool - 1 school in 200 is all set.

+1 "not my problem" until it is

And people need to realize they aren’t going to leave one school with 10 openings and others with none, they’ll spread out the vacancies to remain operational. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are moving teacher up until the first day of school

Teachers have the right to decline the move. There’s a reason some of these schools have dozens of vacancies.