Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is creating a virtual only school permanently. They will need staff to teach those classes separately.

Virtual pays a lot less.

Citation?

It requires specialized facilitation & technical skills.

Google Virtual VA pay. It’s about 40k, minimal benefits.

These are DC-area teachers. COL is much higher than most of VA.

They won’t get paid any less.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a young teacher, I can only tell you how many vacancies went unfilled this year. The federal government just allocated a ton of money to state and local governments and earmarked much of it for education. If anything, we will need smaller classes and more teachers next year.
It’s comical that parents claim they want a better education for their children while celebrating something that would have the opposite effect. What parents actually want is compliant, docile women to watch their children all day and now they want revenge.

A lot of us just want vouchers since we have given up on the public school system.

Seriously. Where do I sign up for that?

Anonymous wrote:You mean during the nationwide teacher shortage? Okay. Maybe they'll get rid of the trailer parks of classroom modulars in the back while they're at it.

llololol

Might I suggest that people are talking about different districts, and that something that's happening in one district is different than what's happening in another district?

I learned a while ago that for at least the "schools and education general discussion" forum, there are people commenting from all over the world.

I have been saying this from the beginning that the WTU was acting in a really short-sighted manner by not caring about driving parents away from public schools.

The kids who are left will also cost more per students, leading to further layoffs.

Anonymous wrote:My friend's district sent out 250 rif letters. This happen every year. All the part timers and those with 3 years or less of experience. And 95% of those teachers get hired back. This year the number is bigger, but they had so many teachers leave, their HR is guessing all will be hired back and they'll still have unfilled jobs. Sped especially is screwed.

Yes. Not sure what OP is talking about. So many teachers are quitting that we will be lucky to find enough to teach the remaining enrolled students.

My friend's district sent out 250 rif letters. This happen every year. All the part timers and those with 3 years or less of experience. And 95% of those teachers get hired back. This year the number is bigger, but they had so many teachers leave, their HR is guessing all will be hired back and they'll still have unfilled jobs. Sped especially is screwed.

It depends. Many school districts in the DC metropolitan region already have many schools that are overcapacity and large class sizes. In our school, class sizes can go down to 20 students per class without decreasing staff. Since we had many classes with 24-28 students per class, that's a fair amount of student attrition that would not result in any teacher layoffs (up to 30% in some classes). If the attrition rate is less than that, then we will not see teacher layoffs.

Additionally, some of the lower enrollment schools may lose teachers, but there are still many over-capacity schools in the school district and they may shuffle teachers from lower enrollment schools to higher enrollment schools or to cover openings that never got filled the last two school years. I'm sure there are some overworked teachers who are handling more classes than they should, that will appreciate having other teachers transferred in to take some of their classes.

Anonymous wrote:As a young teacher, I can only tell you how many vacancies went unfilled this year. The federal government just allocated a ton of money to state and local governments and earmarked much of it for education. If anything, we will need smaller classes and more teachers next year.
It’s comical that parents claim they want a better education for their children while celebrating something that would have the opposite effect. What parents actually want is compliant, docile women to watch their children all day and now they want revenge.

I mean, I want full IPL and also support school funding to make up for the problems engendered by DL this year.

I also believe in reality, though, in which enrollment at least partially determines school funding. At least in DC, they are planning for a decline in enrollment next year. There’s also indications that the stimulus won’t make up fully for the loss of school funding. Plus the suggestion that this means staff or teacher layoffs.

I hope so--many shouldn't be teaching children after all we have seen lately in news.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is creating a virtual only school permanently. They will need staff to teach those classes separately.

Virtual pays a lot less.

If they are MCPS teachers working for MCPS they will b paid the same.

Says who? Citation? What does your school board say?

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Anonymous wrote:They should hire more teachers to help students catch up on what they missed.

This is what our district is doing. Superintendent requested a 10% increase over last years budget to hire 32 more teachers (across 6 schools) to help with learning loss.

And is superintendent going to get it? Probably not.

This is an opportunity for school budgets to reduce hiring in order to limit the pension liability. Some counties do this as strategy already, laying off teachers a year or two before they qualify for the pension. With an increase in retirements, pension expenses for 2021 and 2022 will go up, eating up a lot of additional funding. It’s an old problem and a huge problem. Those of you believe enrollment is declining must be really naive.

Anonymous wrote:77% of parents support school choice. Up 10% this year. Including 1/2 of Dems.
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/new-poll-shows-10-point-jump-in-popular-support-for-school-choice

Up ten points.

77% of parents support school choice. Up 10% this year. Including 1/2 of Dems.
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/new-poll-shows-10-point-jump-in-popular-support-for-school-choice

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is creating a virtual only school permanently. They will need staff to teach those classes separately.

Virtual pays a lot less.

Citation?

It requires specialized facilitation & technical skills.

Google Virtual VA pay. It’s about 40k, minimal benefits.