Fairfax County Teachers: 'I Can't Sustain This'
In town hall meeting with school board members Monday, teachers ask for solutions to workload and morale issues that, after half a decade, are as "worse as they've ever been."
Dan Hale has been a teacher in Fairfax County Public Schools for 20 years, but he’s never felt or seen his colleagues as overwhelmed as they are today. He used to know his students as readers and as writers, he says; now he only knows them as bits of data or ECART scores; pacing points and percentages. And after spending far more than eight hours at school, he leaves (with work in tow) thinking ‘What am I doing tomorrow?’ — planning time in the context of the school day, he says, is nearly nonexistent. The story was one of many shared by a few hundred teachers Monday night at a town hall sponsored by one of the county’s largest teachers unions, an effort to better connect school board members with teachers and workload issues that have …
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Kawsar Sultana
2:49 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In my country, the two most reputable jobs are that of doctors and teachers. Doctors heal the body while teachers heal the community. I am a doctor back at home but I also used to teach when ever I had the time. It is my passion. However, in the US, I have seen teachers get denigrated time to time. Parents accusing teachers for bad grades, calling them lazy and what not. I agree there might be a … more ›