@jeanne-mayell Did a quick scan and saw that Abbott will be intervened and the border will be reopened.
I am not sure how that is going to help him in his re-election bid. Or when he runs for president which I suspect he will do as well. I mean, truckers are (generally) his base. It is giving Beto a lot of substance to work with, if anyone will listen to Beto.
Greg Abbott has his next cruel plan -- denying public eduction to kids without legal status. Plyler v. Doe mandated it in 1982, but with today's SCOTUS, who knows? Texas, Texas, Texas indeed.
That is one way to solve the teacher crisis. If you get rid of a large portion of students you will not need as many teachers.
My daughter's current school in Texas has over 20 teacher openings for next year. 20. She is planning on leaving and has a new job lined up. A large part of the reason for the move is the principal. The he superintendent and a nice chunk as he doesn't lead and the fact that there will be 850 students next year at the beginning of school year, a 150 student increase over this year is a big reason too. Not enough classrooms, specials teachers ( art music pe) are expected to teach 150 additional students and there with no extra help and no plan on how to get through curriculum with less days teaching the students since they will only see them once every 7 days for art and music now instead of 5-6 days. They might hire an addition PE instructor but they were supposed to do that this year and couldn't find one. No portables being brought in either for extra needed regular classrooms. Nowhere to for required but now displaced special programs like the gifted classroom and intervention rooms for speech and reading specialists. Their rooms are going to be used for the increase regular classroom growth. There will be an extra V.P if they can hire one, but that is it.
Oh, did I mention there is no discipline plan at this school??
It the neighboring district she will be teaching at next year, there will be 650 students and an additional part time music teacher and art teacher helping out the main special teachers so it will be like teaching 400 kids. She will make more money, have less grades to fill out, have a principal that leads and communicates regularly and she will work 12 minutes closer to home. ONLY negative is that she will be in an older school instead of a 2 year old beautiful school.
A beautiful school is nice but what good is it if everything else fails.
Her current principal is actually not encouraging anyone to stay or recruit new hires. He told them there is no plan yet on how to accommodate the growing student population. He has known for months now about population projections and has only just informed the staff. He told them to leave if they felt it in their best interest to do so. He had no ideas about what to do for the next year. No ideas how to handle drop off and pick up which already takes a long time.
How do you fill over 20 staff, especially when you have no leadership capability?
This will thankfully not be her problem next year. ( If all goes according to plan).
@lynnventura
*gestures emphatically at everything*
It's this damn state again. Texas, Texas, Texas. Ever time we think we've reached the end of this thread, Texas holds its own beer and outdoes itself. While it's great that the party has returned to having a platform (beyond "Whatever TFG says!") this isn't exactly "pro democracy" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1106229988/texas-gops-new-platform-says-biden-didnt-really-win-it-also-calls-for-secession
Texas, Texas, Texas indeed.