Takes a special person to teach at some JCPS schools with what you have to deal with.

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JCPS needs to reach out to Cincinnati Public schools who just cut a bunch of jobs.

I know Louisville is huge but doesn’t 400 seem like a huge number? I know I wouldn’t teach in a public school system in a major city if I had my choice. 

14 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

JCPS needs to reach out to Cincinnati Public schools who just cut a bunch of jobs.

They can reach out all they want, but there are plenty of jobs that are a ton closer and will not require a huge paycut with the gap between Ohio and Ky teacher pay.  

On 7/11/2025 at 8:58 AM, cincyswords said:

They can reach out all they want, but there are plenty of jobs that are a ton closer and will not require a huge paycut with the gap between Ohio and Ky teacher pay.  

Pay is pretty close since Jefferson County is one of the highest paid in KY (I do believe.)

From what I could find, Jefferson County highest salary is about 99k, meanwhile CPS highest is 113k.  CPS you need to be on step 30 with 45 hours over a masters and Jefferson County it looks like 25 years and PhD for the max.  It may not be a bad switch from CPS to Louisville if your job got slashed.

Just a continuation of a trend but it gets more publicity in a big city.  Rural schools have been dealing with this in our state for a while.  And Kentucky's teacher prep programs are not putting out enough talent as old teachers retire, especially in fields like math and science.

53 minutes ago, DanvilleFan said:

Just a continuation of a trend but it gets more publicity in a big city.  Rural schools have been dealing with this in our state for a while.  And Kentucky's teacher prep programs are not putting out enough talent as old teachers retire, especially in fields like math and science.

Yes! If you go to the Jefferson County Schools website they have 196 different schools. I don't know the exact functions of each school and certainly some will have more openings than others, but that's an average of two open positions at each school in the county. From my perspective as a teacher that doesn't seem to be a ton.

https://www.jefferson.kyschools.us/

55 minutes ago, DanvilleFan said:

And Kentucky's teacher prep programs are not putting out enough talent as old teachers retire, especially in fields like math and science.

This is a huge issue. For decades, Eastern Kentucky University churned out tons of teachers. Then several years ago they decided to go all in on police/fire training and massively defunded their education programs (I don't necessarily fault them, it's the school's decision), but places like Garrard County and Danville, which used to load up on young teachers from those places no longer had that option, or at least not as many candidates.

2 hours ago, DanvilleFan said:

Just a continuation of a trend but it gets more publicity in a big city.  Rural schools have been dealing with this in our state for a while.  And Kentucky's teacher prep programs are not putting out enough talent as old teachers retire, especially in fields like math and science.

This. 

I also see teaching somewhat like police work, so much gets piled on you that not as many young men and women choose the profession. 

On 7/14/2025 at 11:22 AM, theguru said:

I also see teaching somewhat like police work, so much gets piled on you that not as many young men and women choose the profession. 

I would also posit that a lot of teachers I’ve worked with complain constantly about the job. I’ll admit, I don’t always love it, and there is lots of work involved beyond presenting information to a class of students. However, if they see you hate it, then why would they want to join? I’ve encouraged many of my former students to go into the field. Somewhere around 10-20 of my former students work in the same district as me, which to me is an honor for a job at least somewhat well done.

2 hours ago, gchs_uk9 said:

I would also posit that a lot of teachers I’ve worked with complain constantly about the job. I’ll admit, I don’t always love it, and there is lots of work involved beyond presenting information to a class of students. However, if they see you hate it, then why would they want to join? I’ve encouraged many of my former students to go into the field. Somewhere around 10-20 of my former students work in the same district as me, which to me is an honor for a job at least somewhat well done.

Same way in law enforcement and I remember having quick chats with many college kids doing their "ride alongs" with our department.  I would tell them all, you don't want this job, there are so many negatives, etc.  Then, at the end of the shift I would tell them law enforcement needs good people and if they are really serious about becoming a police officer, this job needs you. ??