Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?
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Anonymous
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...if they left for better paying jobs as soon as the pandemic ebbed. (Which is their right - just as it’s the County’s right to stop paying someone when you no longer need their services).
All the generosity, failed. Just wanted to circle back on MCPS’ argument for paying these folks to sit at home way back when and then trying to make them Zoom teachers (laughable) when they hit flack. Just another sign MCPS’s 3 billion dollar budget is bloated and largely focused on the adults (jobs program). |
Anonymous
| Okay Steve Austin |
Anonymous
| FWIW, same is happening with the bus drivers at our private and with support staff at work. |
Anonymous
Okay, Union bus driver! |
Anonymous
| Mcps did what most / many systems dId nationwide . If they let them all go the situation would be much worse. |
Anonymous
| Most systems brought students back to experience many more days in school in 2020 so those employees were actually doing their job. |
Anonymous
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I don’t know any drivers who were “sitting at home” after those first 2 weeks when everyone was SUPPOSED to be sitting at home.
They were: Handing out meals at schools Handing out chromebooks at schools Delivering meals to the highest need neighborhoods Staffing the tech distribution center at Gude Dr. assisting with materials hand outs at schools Enough with the blame. The driver shortage sucks, my students and I are impacted by it every day, but the drivers who left had their reasons and who are we to begrudge them that. Walk (drive in this case) a mile and see how long you last. |
Anonymous
| They were paid because they are under contract to pay them. That’s how contracted jobs work. Your privilege is highlighting your ignorance OP. Do better. |
Anonymous
| We have the same bus drivers we had pre-pandemic. So I’m thrilled they got paid and are back! |
Anonymous
| Just like those pregnant women who go on paid maternity leave and then quit their jobs. Dang! |
Anonymous
| The ones they paid, stayed. They still had attrition during 2020 summer and 2021 summer - they always do. Bus drivers have a high turnover rate normally. If they hadn’t kept them busy last year, they would also have list the long term drivers by forcing them to find new jobs. |
Anonymous
Oh right mcps was alone in that too. Sure |
Anonymous
| We didn’t need the national guard to drive our kids this fall. The plan seems to have worked fairly well. |
Anonymous
Indeed. Some people just like ginning up trouble. |
Anonymous
LOL ya they need to get a life |