Comment on Teachers deserve more money.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 week ago
hearing the experiences from the teacher sub, cant blame them, due to the manospheres reaching male students even in middle school has made things worst, plus indifferent parents and administrations that drove teachers to quit, oh yea and covid of course amplified the situation. first because you cant have inclass teaching most couldnt keep thier jobs
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
wat? teachers were fired?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
No, OP doesn’t understand it fully or isn’t describing the process well.
Every year a budget is set that determines the total teacher FTE (full time equivalent). If the number is higher than last year, new teachers will be hired. If it’s lower, it means teachers will be fired.
Teachers are not hired (fired) at the end of school year/beginning of next year. The way it usually works are the principals have a giant bid process kind of like a draft. Teachers that have tenure (usually 5+ years, but depends on district) are guaranteed a seat and get first pick of their preferred school, grade and subject. All of the other teachers then put in the 3 favorite schools and they get assigned based on principals trading them around.
So if the budget changes during COVID, let’s say dramatic spending on technology, it reduces the amount of teacher FTE. That means in some districts, classroom sizes are increased and non tenured teachers are not rehired. But this isn’t true everywhere, it was just a small trend during COVID due to changing budget priorities for that year.