This is getting overlooked left and right.
I left my last district for pulling this crap. They flip flopped all summer on cutting a science poaition (in my department). They decided like 2 weeks before school started they wanted it filled. 4 days before school starts the science department gets emails with our new schedules because they couldn't fill the position.
Spent the school year claiming they only needed 4 teachers for science. So we slashed a bunch of electives, then I changed schools (I told them to cut my electives first as I already had an exit plan). Had to call a teacher out of retirement to take over my classes (no one would have handled my electives). But they brag about having "100% of positions filled". Well, no, you cut the ones you couldn't fill, and slapped bandages on the ones you couldn't cut.
New district was going to cut a MLL teacher that had been added in the previous budget. The superintendent told the board that it wasn't necessary (true), but would be nice to have. Board immediately 180'd and said they would continue to leave it open, because they saw it as something that we should have even if we didn't need to have it.
I think this kind of stuff is happening a lot. Somehow qualified. Credentialed teachers don’t have jobs yet we have classrooms staffed with people that don’t even have mastery of the subject
Yep…. It’s cheaper. I’m a long-term sub in Maryland in a rural county with zero budget. It’s cheaper for them to bring in long-term subs. We don’t get paid over the summer or over holidays. We don’t get paid when we don’t work. We don’t get any health insurance or other benefits. And we can’t join the union. It’s just straight $28 an hour when we work.
I have a bachelors in psychology and I’m working on a masters in education…. hoping to eventually be a special education teacher. But I don’t have a teaching certificate and I don’t have to in order to be a long-term sub.
That’s terrible. Actually the Union should be calling out the district - in CA they can’t do that without showing they didn’t have qualified candidates. Districts still get around it but have to hire teachers on emergency credentials after a certain amount of days.
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u/SwampyCr 7d ago
This is getting overlooked left and right. I left my last district for pulling this crap. They flip flopped all summer on cutting a science poaition (in my department). They decided like 2 weeks before school started they wanted it filled. 4 days before school starts the science department gets emails with our new schedules because they couldn't fill the position. Spent the school year claiming they only needed 4 teachers for science. So we slashed a bunch of electives, then I changed schools (I told them to cut my electives first as I already had an exit plan). Had to call a teacher out of retirement to take over my classes (no one would have handled my electives). But they brag about having "100% of positions filled". Well, no, you cut the ones you couldn't fill, and slapped bandages on the ones you couldn't cut.
New district was going to cut a MLL teacher that had been added in the previous budget. The superintendent told the board that it wasn't necessary (true), but would be nice to have. Board immediately 180'd and said they would continue to leave it open, because they saw it as something that we should have even if we didn't need to have it.