Anonymous wrote:There is clearly a staffing crisis in FCPS, and one need look no further than those responsible for creating a hostile environment for teachers:

- Reid
- School Board
- Gatehouse.

We need major change in all 3 areas / positions in FCPS. Our kids are suffering and losing out on the education FCPS is supposed to provide (but doesn't at present).

I’m not a fan of any those you mentioned, but how do explain the crisis across the country?

Anonymous wrote:There is clearly a staffing crisis in FCPS, and one need look no further than those responsible for creating a hostile environment for teachers:

- Reid
- School Board
- Gatehouse.

We need major change in all 3 areas / positions in FCPS. Our kids are suffering and losing out on the education FCPS is supposed to provide (but doesn't at present).

These people are not my favorites at all, but the teaching shortage is everywhere.
-APS teacher

There is clearly a staffing crisis in FCPS, and one need look no further than those responsible for creating a hostile environment for teachers:

- Reid
- School Board
- Gatehouse.

We need major change in all 3 areas / positions in FCPS. Our kids are suffering and losing out on the education FCPS is supposed to provide (but doesn't at present).

Anonymous wrote:So they delayed open enrollment for several weeks only to spring significantly increased premiums for worse health insurance coverage.

Get ready for even more vacancies!

Anonymous wrote:So they delayed open enrollment for several weeks only to spring significantly increased premiums for worse health insurance coverage.

Get ready for even more vacancies!

+1

Anonymous wrote:So they delayed open enrollment for several weeks only to spring significantly increased premiums for worse health insurance coverage.

Get ready for even more vacancies!

This county tells teachers and students almost daily they don't care about them.

So they delayed open enrollment for several weeks only to spring significantly increased premiums for worse health insurance coverage.

Get ready for even more vacancies!

Anonymous wrote:If you pay top dollar, you attract top candidates

I’m more interested in working conditions than pay.

Let me get my job done during the work day instead of assuming I should give up my home life. Do that, and I’ll stay. Throw 40K at me, and I might stay.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teaching jobs are not equivalent.
The more difficult to fill positions should pay more.
A CSS sped teacher should make substantially
more than a high school jewelry-making teacher. For instance.

+1. If your position requires any kind of crisis training you should be paid a lot more than the positions that don't. However, these jobs should not be filled by inexperienced teachers or trainees under any circumstances.

Just fyi, I do agree with you on the "if your job requires any kind of crisis training", but at the same time, if you've served in a school recently, you know that we ALL need crisis training. Every classroom regularly has crisis moments at least once a week now.

I agree with this.....even music/art/library teachers are dealing with all kinds of behaviors and needs.

Anonymous wrote:If you pay top dollar, you attract top candidates

They need to put their focus on luring teachers out of other surrounding countries or pay relocation for teachers who get get jobs in hire paid union states. It’s much harder to get hired in the north east states. I can see how it would be any more expensive that getting teacher from overseas. The new grad pool of teachers has slowed and can’t be relied upon to fill all of the classrooms like it used to.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teaching jobs are not equivalent.
The more difficult to fill positions should pay more.
A CSS sped teacher should make substantially
more than a high school jewelry-making teacher. For instance.

+1. If your position requires any kind of crisis training you should be paid a lot more than the positions that don't. However, these jobs should not be filled by inexperienced teachers or trainees under any circumstances.

Just fyi, I do agree with you on the "if your job requires any kind of crisis training", but at the same time, if you've served in a school recently, you know that we ALL need crisis training. Every classroom regularly has crisis moments at least once a week now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teaching jobs are not equivalent.
The more difficult to fill positions should pay more.
A CSS sped teacher should make substantially
more than a high school jewelry-making teacher. For instance.

+1. If your position requires any kind of crisis training you should be paid a lot more than the positions that don't. However, these jobs should not be filled by inexperienced teachers or trainees under any circumstances.

We need to stop with the trainees in general. I’m not against a faster pathway into teaching, but just dropping someone into a classroom is dumb and it’s not a shock when they quit, I would quit too if I went into teaching with minimal training. Let them do their training and be paired up with a co teacher and then let them eventually let them go on there. This will weed out the ones who realize they don’t want to teach with way less risk than we have now. Money is not the only problem in education. I think if we offered more coteaching models or even longer training periods for new teachers, we would see less of them burning out after 3 years.

If you pay top dollar, you attract top candidates

Anonymous wrote:Teaching jobs are not equivalent.
The more difficult to fill positions should pay more.
A CSS sped teacher should make substantially
more than a high school jewelry-making teacher. For instance.

+1. If your position requires any kind of crisis training you should be paid a lot more than the positions that don't. However, these jobs should not be filled by inexperienced teachers or trainees under any circumstances.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teaching jobs are not equivalent.
The more difficult to fill positions should pay more.
A CSS sped teacher should make substantially
more than a high school jewelry-making teacher. For instance.

A lot of electives teachers take this offensively even if it’s true. They do have an important role in for most students, but strictly numbers wise the demand and workload for Special educators is higher.

Everyone's job is not equal. People doing jobs that are harder to fill, take more work and energy, should be paid more. Sorry if the HS PE teachers and chorus teachers take offense.