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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?

Go to RWNJ state for vouchers. Not happening around here. We value education too much to inflict that on ourselves.

Sorry, even if you have given up on the public school system, you don't get vouchers. Since before you were born, everyone pays the taxes that go into public schools. That includes millions of people who have no children, have children in private or parochial schools or children that are grown up and out of the system. Just because you don't like the public school system, you don't get to take that tax money back out to apply to private school tuition. This is like me saying that since I don't drive on any of the roads in your part of the state, I should get my infrastructure money back so that I can apply it to a new car that I drive in my part of the state. Pubic schools are a taxable item and are there for anyone who lives in the jurisdiction. We all pay for that whether we use it or not. We all pay taxes for many, many government agencies and budget items that we don't use. You don't get line item veto of the items you don't use.

So, you are welcome to send your child to a private or parochial school, but if you do so, you pay for the tuition out of your pocket and don't get to take back the tax money you paid to support the public schools.

Yup. I don’t agree that we should spend 600 billion+ dollars every year on our military, but that doesn’t mean that I get a refund on my taxes. Bummer.

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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.

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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?

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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?

Go to RWNJ state for vouchers. Not happening around here. We value education too much to inflict that on ourselves.

Sorry, even if you have given up on the public school system, you don't get vouchers. Since before you were born, everyone pays the taxes that go into public schools. That includes millions of people who have no children, have children in private or parochial schools or children that are grown up and out of the system. Just because you don't like the public school system, you don't get to take that tax money back out to apply to private school tuition. This is like me saying that since I don't drive on any of the roads in your part of the state, I should get my infrastructure money back so that I can apply it to a new car that I drive in my part of the state. Pubic schools are a taxable item and are there for anyone who lives in the jurisdiction. We all pay for that whether we use it or not. We all pay taxes for many, many government agencies and budget items that we don't use. You don't get line item veto of the items you don't use.

So, you are welcome to send your child to a private or parochial school, but if you do so, you pay for the tuition out of your pocket and don't get to take back the tax money you paid to support the public schools.

NP. To be fair, public education in this country is far worse now than it ever was half a century ago. So it’s not really a fair comparison.

And as for roads, you do use them even if you never drive. The food you eat, clothes you wear, materials for the house you’re living in were all transported on roads.

Personally, I think education vouchers are long overdue.

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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?

Go to RWNJ state for vouchers. Not happening around here. We value education too much to inflict that on ourselves.

Sorry, even if you have given up on the public school system, you don't get vouchers. Since before you were born, everyone pays the taxes that go into public schools. That includes millions of people who have no children, have children in private or parochial schools or children that are grown up and out of the system. Just because you don't like the public school system, you don't get to take that tax money back out to apply to private school tuition. This is like me saying that since I don't drive on any of the roads in your part of the state, I should get my infrastructure money back so that I can apply it to a new car that I drive in my part of the state. Pubic schools are a taxable item and are there for anyone who lives in the jurisdiction. We all pay for that whether we use it or not. We all pay taxes for many, many government agencies and budget items that we don't use. You don't get line item veto of the items you don't use.

So, you are welcome to send your child to a private or parochial school, but if you do so, you pay for the tuition out of your pocket and don't get to take back the tax money you paid to support the public schools.

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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?

Go to RWNJ state for vouchers. Not happening around here. We value education too much to inflict that on ourselves.

Sorry, even if you have given up on the public school system, you don't get vouchers. Since before you were born, everyone pays the taxes that go into public schools. That includes millions of people who have no children, have children in private or parochial schools or children that are grown up and out of the system. Just because you don't like the public school system, you don't get to take that tax money back out to apply to private school tuition. This is like me saying that since I don't drive on any of the roads in your part of the state, I should get my infrastructure money back so that I can apply it to a new car that I drive in my part of the state. Pubic schools are a taxable item and are there for anyone who lives in the jurisdiction. We all pay for that whether we use it or not. We all pay taxes for many, many government agencies and budget items that we don't use. You don't get line item veto of the items you don't use.

So, you are welcome to send your child to a private or parochial school, but if you do so, you pay for the tuition out of your pocket and don't get to take back the tax money you paid to support the public schools.

Yup. I don’t agree that we should spend 600 billion+ dollars every year on our military, but that doesn’t mean that I get a refund on my taxes. Bummer.

Anonymous wrote:

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:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to RWNJ state for vouchers. Not happening around here. We value education too much to inflict that on ourselves.

Sorry, even if you have given up on the public school system, you don't get vouchers. Since before you were born, everyone pays the taxes that go into public schools. That includes millions of people who have no children, have children in private or parochial schools or children that are grown up and out of the system. Just because you don't like the public school system, you don't get to take that tax money back out to apply to private school tuition. This is like me saying that since I don't drive on any of the roads in your part of the state, I should get my infrastructure money back so that I can apply it to a new car that I drive in my part of the state. Pubic schools are a taxable item and are there for anyone who lives in the jurisdiction. We all pay for that whether we use it or not. We all pay taxes for many, many government agencies and budget items that we don't use. You don't get line item veto of the items you don't use.

So, you are welcome to send your child to a private or parochial school, but if you do so, you pay for the tuition out of your pocket and don't get to take back the tax money you paid to support the public schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to RWNJ state for vouchers. Not happening around here. We value education too much to inflict that on ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard from two well-placed sources that based on projected enrollment figures in two different public school districts, schools are already planning for teacher lay offs for next school year.

I genuinely wonder if the teachers saw that one coming.

So many are leaving the profession that it will “balance out” to an even worse teacher shortage. Wonder if parents saw that one coming?

Anonymous wrote:I have heard from two well-placed sources that based on projected enrollment figures in two different public school districts, schools are already planning for teacher lay offs for next school year.

I genuinely wonder if the teachers saw that one coming.

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine this is based on contracting of budgets (the economy sucked last year, so less tax revenue), plus people pulling kids out of public schools means less funding.

No, state budgets are doing great, from all the stimulus money.

It has to do with the number of students, not state budgets. It means that private schools will be increasing their numbers of teachers -- but private schools don't pay as well as public.

Also non-unionized plus fewer benefits, I'd imagine.

Way fewer benefits, lower salary, less job security.

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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?