Experienced teacher here. The district has put such an emphasis on not sending kids to CSS programs until they have spent six months or more “gathering data” and trying things like a sticker chart. Some of these kids have past trauma, mental health diagnoses, and family struggles and the child needs an alternative school placement now! They can come back to their base school as soon as they improve, but it’s not like sending them to jail for life to make the move now. It’s insane that the CSS schools have such a drop in student population when everyone knows so many kids are struggling. Going to a smaller, therapeutic program is going to benefit these students so much more than having them be out of control so often, having their cortisol and adrenaline levels spiking, and the secondary trauma on the other kids witnessing these outbursts and teacher assaults cannot be overstated.

On top of this, so many of these kids have parents that refuse to get their kids mental health treatment, so the kid is falling apart daily and learning nothing. These parents should be referred to CPS for medical neglect. Mental health neglect is equal to medical neglect. A kid that was passing out from diabetes each day without treatment is on the sane level as a kid should is trashing rooms, screaming for hours, and attacking others.

Anonymous wrote:I left education and started a new job. I do my best to not spread negativity about the profession, but when I told my new coworkers it was immediately “is it true the kids are crazy?” And “you’re so brave”. The reputation about teaching is spreading so yeah it’s going to be hard to fill positions. After what happened in Newport News and now in Texas with the principal losing her eye a lot of people are very hesitant.

This-I left teaching and my family and friends were like thank goodness you got out. I watched IA's get hurt and admin act annoyed-I had admin ask my IA's and myself what we wanted them to do as a child destroyed rooms and kicked and scratched/screamed for sometimes 30 mins straight. It's becoming unsafe-I can't speak for MS and HS but elementary schools are understaffed. And you might get a sub one day but in these conditions most aren't coming back. It's sad for the kids who are there and ready to learn. And honestly I wouldn't want to be admin because the truth is there is not much they can do....but I will tell you teachers do not get paid enough to deal with that level of chaos when they are still responsible for the safety and education of many other students. So admin-take them out-make parents come get them but don't shrug and ask what you should do. It is a horrible working and learning environment-day to day survival is not good for teaching or learning.

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Anonymous wrote:How does a school even fill a classroom teacher vacancy at this point?

With any available warm body. I’ve seen it happen multiple times.

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The IAs at "one of the best" HSs 5-10 years ago were warm bodies, what is it like now?

Parents and admin don't care....fill the spots-check. And I hope nothing bad happens but that is when people will care and act shocked.

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Anonymous wrote:How does a school even fill a classroom teacher vacancy at this point?

With any available warm body. I’ve seen it happen multiple times.

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The IAs at "one of the best" HSs 5-10 years ago were warm bodies, what is it like now?

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Anonymous wrote:The morale on the fcps employee Facebook page is LOW. Tons of large class sizes and complaints about having a lot of resource teachers but not enough classroom teachers.

Resource teachers are the worst.

Actually instructional coaches are the worst. They justify their jobs by creating a huge amount of useless extra work for teachers and CT leads.

I’m convinced these positions exist as a carrot to dangle for teachers with 5+ years of experience with the county. “Stay with us and be great and you could have a cushier position”. So many great gen ed classroom teachers upgrade to resource positions, coaches,ESOL, and AAP resource to leave the classroom.

You're probably right about this one. They would be better off keeping them as classroom teachers and having smaller classrooms and admin support.

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Anonymous wrote:I left education and started a new job. I do my best to not spread negativity about the profession, but when I told my new coworkers it was immediately “is it true the kids are crazy?” And “you’re so brave”. The reputation about teaching is spreading so yeah it’s going to be hard to fill positions. After what happened in Newport News and now in Texas with the principal losing her eye a lot of people are very hesitant.

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I stopped subbing because the kids were so awful. Not all of them, of course, but it only takes a few to make teaching absolutely impossible. I do still check the sub vacancies, and I would say 95% of them are for SPED, multiple and/or severe disabilities, etc. I'm not about to take those positions and apparently many others feel the same way.

I left education and started a new job. I do my best to not spread negativity about the profession, but when I told my new coworkers it was immediately “is it true the kids are crazy?” And “you’re so brave”. The reputation about teaching is spreading so yeah it’s going to be hard to fill positions. After what happened in Newport News and now in Texas with the principal losing her eye a lot of people are very hesitant.

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Anonymous wrote:How does a school even fill a classroom teacher vacancy at this point?

With any available warm body. I’ve seen it happen multiple times.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the best high schools I know is unable to find anyone to take 2 math teaching positions. I don't know when or if they'll be able to put a qualified teacher in the roles.

What happens in this case?

We had a terrible computer teacher step in-he was horrible and pissed he was made to teach math. Worst year and my dc learned nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the best high schools I know is unable to find anyone to take 2 math teaching positions. I don't know when or if they'll be able to put a qualified teacher in the roles.

What happens in this case?

Long term subs

Anonymous wrote:One of the best high schools I know is unable to find anyone to take 2 math teaching positions. I don't know when or if they'll be able to put a qualified teacher in the roles.

What happens in this case?

One of the best high schools I know is unable to find anyone to take 2 math teaching positions. I don't know when or if they'll be able to put a qualified teacher in the roles.

Anonymous wrote:How does a school even fill a classroom teacher vacancy at this point?

With any available warm body. I’ve seen it happen multiple times.

How does a school even fill a classroom teacher vacancy at this point?

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Anonymous wrote:The morale on the fcps employee Facebook page is LOW. Tons of large class sizes and complaints about having a lot of resource teachers but not enough classroom teachers.

Resource teachers are the worst.

Actually instructional coaches are the worst. They justify their jobs by creating a huge amount of useless extra work for teachers and CT leads.

I’m convinced these positions exist as a carrot to dangle for teachers with 5+ years of experience with the county. “Stay with us and be great and you could have a cushier position”. So many great gen ed classroom teachers upgrade to resource positions, coaches,ESOL, and AAP resource to leave the classroom.

Maybe a better question is why people want out of gen ed classrooms and SPED....if you are a teacher you know the answer

Not as beholden to student test scores, not managing IEPs and accommodations, and not teaching all day and when they do it’s in small groups, all for the same pay. I can’t even be mad at teachers for doing it.

I'm not mad at them either. Imagine being a manager or a boss and having to manage your employee's special accommodations all the time? Admin should help. Our old admin supported teachers, when admin changed, the teacher's left. No coincidence there, you don't usually quit your job, you quit your boss.

Yup you can only mismanage for so long or act like you don't care. People leave-usually the chaos in a school with a bad principal can be felt everywhere and in every situation.