Courtesy of Anson County Schools
ANSON — Thanks to strides made by Dr. Joshua McLaurin and HR staff, Anson County schools will begin the 2024-2025 school year with no teacher vacancies. “In the middle of a national teacher shortage, for Anson County Schools to be fully staffed on day one is really a great thing. I cannot say enough to our principals and everybody that has worked so hard to try to get us to this point.”
Continuing to credit school staff, Dr. McLaurin said, “Our principals have done an outstanding job recruiting teachers. They are also doing a great job at trying to retain teachers, which we know that retention is our greatest opportunity for recruiting.”
Referencing licensure issues that plagued the school system last year, McLaurin praised the HR department for finding work-arounds and principals for staying on teachers and offering support throughout the year.
“We have got a lot of people who have moved into a lot better licensing situations,” he said.
McLaurin, who has worked tirelessly to recruit educators to the Anson County School district from all over, announced the recent steal of a Charlotte Mecklenburg teacher.
“We hired our last teacher on Saturday morning. We were really thankful to get her from Charolotte Meck,” he said.
Expressing admiration, interim Superintendent Brian Ratliff commented he never saw a harder working human resources staff.
“I want to give kudos to our HR office in particular, and other colleagues that have worked so hard over the last three to four months prior to my coming. Since I have been here, I have not seen folks work as hard as they have worked to try and get as many positions filled with certified individuals,” Ratliff said.
