How Bad Are Virginia Public Schools’ Personnel Shortages?
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11 responses to “How Bad Are Virginia Public Schools’ Personnel Shortages?”
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Looking over the Fauquier vacancies I discovered that the job openings were not cornered into one particular subject area. The vacancies seem to impact every type of classroom teacher a school system has.
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You folks don’t appear close enough to West Virginia to fill the ranks from there.
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“School districts that choose to negotiate contracts with unions will be significantly disadvantaged by shortages.
So will the children.”
nasty thing to say
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Necessary periodically to remind VDOE, the Governor and the GA that it is not just adults that have stakes in the school system. It doesn’t seem to register, but I will continue to try.
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Such a shocker that a Virginia state government website is out of date and useless.
No, seriously, isn’t that the normal state of things?
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Not the first time. Pick a year, any year. Google “teacher shortage Virginia 200x” and the results go back decades.
Gotta start paying these people. Or at least, stop making them buy their own supplies.
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You win. First one to the blackboard.
I agree with you on paying them what they are worth, but teachers have been underpaid all of my life.
The difference this time is the state’s cultural assault on them and the overreach on strict compliance with thousands of pages of rules by the Northam administration and the GA. That really is different. I have never seen it before, nor have you.
The first teachers’ meeting at many Virginia schools this year will be very traumatic as they hear all of the new rules, including loosening of school discipline, many for the first time. And then are dispatched to cultural awareness and social-emotional learning training.
I offer comments from two teachers in the Michigan legislature, one Democrat and one Republican. Neither cited teacher pay as the reason they ran for office. Both cited overreach by legislators that take autonomy away from teachers.
“Teachers and educators recognize that many of our legislators are completely out of touch with the realities of the classroom. For too long the opinion of teachers has been disregarded and the teaching profession has been under attack. Lansing has a long history of making education policy without doing the research first.
“That is why I ran for the legislature after being a teacher after 19 years. As a former teacher of the year, I bring a unique perspective, and I am working hard to make sure teachers’ voices are finally heard in the Michigan legislature.”
– Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D)“As I taught, I increasingly had to jump through all of the hoops placed in front of me from my district, the Department of Education, and the state… All of that hoop jumping saps the energy from talented teachers who are just trying to do what is best for kids.”
“Our education world often falls into working in silos, which bring a feeling of aloneness that is detrimental to culture and innovation. As policymakers in education, I have noticed that we consistently seek to to come up with all of the answers and then force educators to do them. This is the backwards approach we have been taking for too long that meets the definition of insanity.”
“I have been reworking HB 5833 and HB 5834 from last term to create a nonpartisan teacher network that is a structure intended to truly empower teacher voice and bring prestige back to the profession.”
– Rep. Brad Paquette, (R) – 78You must know this is a new and overwhelming problem for Virginia teachers regardless of their personal politics.
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Yeah, and DeVos was a godsend angel.
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Great use of the data, Jim. VDOE and the school districts have no excuse for not seeing what is coming.
Teaching shortages have been chronic for years, especially in dysfunctional school systems like Richmond. Nothing new there. What your data suggest is that the shortages will be more acute than ever and spread to more school districts.
The impact of the new laws that you have written about may not be evident right away. Teachers won’t wig out until they experience first-hand how the laws make their jobs more frustrating and, in some cases, more dangerous. The real test will be to see how many teachers come back after the Christmas break.
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I often remind readers of the vital role parents play in the success or failure of their own children, with failure often due to parents assuming it is not their job or something they just can’t seem to master. Don’t ignore the role some parents play in making the life of teachers a living hell. (Jimmy Stewart losing it with his child’s teacher in It’s A Wonderful Life is a mild glimpse compared to the real ass holes, who usually have the admin folks cowed.)
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Hey don’t forget we’ve also been told we need to get rid of all the white female teachers too. They’ve been vilified as racists.
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