I am so thankful!

[daughtersrus]

Until this week, I don't think that I truly understood how lucky DD was to be offered a teaching job last May.

I was talking to a friend of mine that works in a local elementary school. She told me that the reading specialist quit at the last minute (problems getting along with the principal). They had over 1,000 applications for the job within the short time that it was posted! The person that they hired is moving 1,200 miles for the job. DD's commute of 50 miles doesn't seem so bad.

My friend said that this situation is not uncommon at all. Applicants for Gen Ed positions are in the thousands and applications for SpEd positions are in the hundreds.

 

[floridaminnie]

It's the same way down here. We use to have to beg for teachers, but now we have soooo many applicants!

 

[OhMari]

I looked right away to see if you live in the Midwest. Il, WI, MN. We pay such high property taxes, but a few years ago, our states decided to unburden the tax payer, by reducing how much schools receive in tax dollars.

My taxes have not gone down.

There have been teacher layoffs in my school district, and huge budget cuts. We had a kindegarden teacher retire. The day she announced the retirement, they had 200 e-mail applications. The job wasn't even posted. Our school didn't even hire another teacher, they are combining the kindegarden. Instead of 16 in each class room, there will now be 32 children in kindegarden, with 1 teacher, 2 aides helping, and parent support.


OP-can you dd move closer to the school district?

 

[barkley]

I looked right away to see if you live in the Midwest. Il, WI, MN. We pay such high property taxes, but a few years ago, our states decided to unburden the tax payer, by reducing how much schools receive in tax dollars.

My taxes have not gone down.

There have been teacher layoffs in my school district, and huge budget cuts. We had a kindegarden teacher retire. The day she announced the retirement, they had 200 e-mail applications. The job wasn't even posted. Our school didn't even hire another teacher, they are combining the kindegarden. Instead of 16 in each class room, there will now be 32 children in kindegarden, with 1 teacher, 2 aides helping, and parent support.


OP-can you dd move closer to the school district?

i spoke with a friend the other day-she and her husband work for the same school district that her ds is a senior in.

she has been telling me of layoffs and eliminated jobs for the past couple of school years but she said this year it's much worse. in their district, at both the kindergarten and high school level they are having classe sizes in the mid 30's-and these teachers have no aides.

i look back to when i taught kindergarten, and i cannot imagine having a class of 35 kids with no aide (and she lives/works in a district with low parental involvement so the chance of any regular parental support is minimal).

in her son's case, beyond the much larger class sizes, there has been a tremendous decrease in elective offerings. which some might not think of as a huge issue, but when you're talking the 3rd and 4th year offerings of foreign languages, and some of the advanced courses students traditionaly take to help determine what they might be interested in for college-it can realy have an impact.