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Anonymous wrote:Eh, the pandemic was really hard, and a LOT of people scapegoated teachers and otherwise demonstrated a huge amount of disdain for them. Add in the CRT crap that creates stress for teachers worried about getting in trouble, the fact that our collective response to school shootings is a big fat shrug (when it's not a suggestion that teachers should be armed) and the other garbage that we pile on teachers, and it's no surprise that many are retiring and other people are choosing not to go in to teaching.

Exactly. Reading on here daily about how how I was made me switch careers. Made 70k as a teacher. Now I work as a nanny for a celeb family and make 120k, one week on, one week off. Don’t miss all the ungrateful complaining parents. At all.

I'd love to pick your brain about your job. How did you find it? How does the rota thing work? Do you live-in their home? Do you work 24/7 for a week straight?

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Anonymous wrote:^^ Exactly. With the Virginia setup school systems have figured out that they don't need to buy textbooks. If they don't supply textbooks, then teachers will buy what they need from Teachers Pay Teachers. School systems abdicate on their responsibilities forcing teachers to step up and pay out of their own pockets for random, disconnected materials. Another win for the school systems. A huge loss for kids.

We are a two teacher household (lower and upper ES) and we don’t spend any out of our own pockets, but I know many do.

I think many do because it is easier and faster than making their own. I can't blame them for that. Teachers are already overworked. If I were in that position, I would probably do the same thing and buy the stuff. School systems should be providing the curriculum materials. It is insane that they don't.

Anonymous wrote:^^ Exactly. With the Virginia setup school systems have figured out that they don't need to buy textbooks. If they don't supply textbooks, then teachers will buy what they need from Teachers Pay Teachers. School systems abdicate on their responsibilities forcing teachers to step up and pay out of their own pockets for random, disconnected materials. Another win for the school systems. A huge loss for kids.

We are a two teacher household (lower and upper ES) and we don’t spend any out of our own pockets, but I know many do.

Anonymous wrote:Eh, the pandemic was really hard, and a LOT of people scapegoated teachers and otherwise demonstrated a huge amount of disdain for them. Add in the CRT crap that creates stress for teachers worried about getting in trouble, the fact that our collective response to school shootings is a big fat shrug (when it's not a suggestion that teachers should be armed) and the other garbage that we pile on teachers, and it's no surprise that many are retiring and other people are choosing not to go in to teaching.

Exactly. Reading on here daily about how how I was made me switch careers. Made 70k as a teacher. Now I work as a nanny for a celeb family and make 120k, one week on, one week off. Don’t miss all the ungrateful complaining parents. At all.

^^ Exactly. With the Virginia setup school systems have figured out that they don't need to buy textbooks. If they don't supply textbooks, then teachers will buy what they need from Teachers Pay Teachers. School systems abdicate on their responsibilities forcing teachers to step up and pay out of their own pockets for random, disconnected materials. Another win for the school systems. A huge loss for kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the model has to do with race that much…. My point was stated that offer tenure, pension, and fairly nice raises every year don’t seem to struggle to find applicants as much as the states without tenure, that do away with pension, and that hardly have step increases or just freezes them for years. They also don’t hate textbooks and like to give teachers resources. There’s plenty of old crumbling buildings staffed with good teachers and good resources up here. Down in the south there’s so many nice, shiny, new looking buildings not from the 1920’s or 1950’s or even 1970’s but they’re not full of resources or staff that feel they’re compensated fairly enough to stay there for over 30 years.

Nice buildings shouldn’t be the top priority. We have plenty of old eyesore buildings up here full of teachers in their 20th year and beyond.

Va teacher here. This is what I desperately want. The worst part of my job is the obscene hours I have to spend coming up with materials for teaching, because Virginia doesn’t provide resources and expects teachers to be content developers.

That's not a statewide thing.

It is for middle school math.

I can't imagine every middle school in every Virginia district is lacking materials and resources.

Hhhmmm. Have you looked at the Virginia SOLs and compared them to textbooks that are available? Take any grade level in math, for example that is tested. Compare the standards for that grade level against the textbooks that are available for a school system to purchase. Come back and tell us after you've found a textbook that aligns with and addresses more than 50% of the Virginia standards for that grade level. We'll wait ...

One of the biggest issues is that Virginia has chosen to go out on its own and set up its own standards. There is a huge difference between Common Core and Virginia standards for math.
The textbook publishers are publishing books that align with the Common Core curriculum. This means that any text books that a school system buys won't address about half of the state standards for math for that grade level. It is a huge Catch-22. If Virginia would adopt Common Core, which isn't perfect but its better than the crap we have now, then teachers and students would have better resources. As it is now, teachers and students in Virginia have no good options.