Treatment of New Special Ed teachers hired by MCPS
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Anonymous
Retirement? H*ll, that 80 bucks feeds my family for a week. (hello, Aldi.) |
Anonymous
IKR! MCPS has to fend off all the applicants! |
Anonymous
Maybe for college students. I haven’t heard of too many professionals having roommates sharing a bedroom. That said, these teachers may be focused on saving or sending home as much money as possible and are perfectly happy sharing accommodations and benefiting from the shared experience personally and professionally. |
Anonymous
Given housing prices of course it's happening. We have a small house with one bathroom, so its normal to us. |
Anonymous
| Mcps treats sped like they do all teachers. Bad. |
Anonymous
This is mcps pulling a fast one as they reduced staff and hide these teachers under a contract. They are probably paid next to nothing. |
Anonymous
| How can I find out if my kid's elementary school has any assignment of these new sped teachers? My kids has IEP. Are they fully qualified and speak English well? My kids have speech disorder, and one still struggles with phonics. |
Anonymous
Most of those people work for private or international schools. I know people who do this but they work for the international schools. I know two people who worked in Spain as teachers, worked in China (where they made the most $), and the UAE. Every one of them worked for a private school. I worked internationally for non profits. My flight was paid for I was given a few days in a hotel then give a couple hundred or a thousand dollars and meant to find my own housing before my first paycheck. Sometimes if you received a small housing allowance but that never fully covered rent and was considered part of your benefit because the salary was so low (less than an MCPS teacher). If we lived in a compound then you were paid less $. Only in Afghanistan was I paid more and lived on a compound but it was because I received a little more danger pay. If MCPs pays for their housing it should come out of their salary. What will it do for the morale of US teachers if people from overseas get the same salary (which is worth a lot more overseas) and free housing? |
Anonymous
I am glad I read this and other posts. We were thinking of a move for a job to MCPS or DC (private) as we currently live in a very high performing public school system. One of my children has a special ed teacher and they actually changed teachers because the first one wasn’t working. They are also very qualified and experienced. I don’t know how I feel about taxpayer money going to pay for extras for international teachers but not US ones. Don’t you think we would have more qualified teachers if we offered one or two years of an apartment share or something when they were first hired? MCPS should have maybe thought this through more? I know of people who have hired au pairs and a close family member worked in graduate higher education where a large % are international students. A large majority try and stay here either by marriage (getting pregnant) or trying game the system after their F-1 or OPT have ended. I understanding wanting to live and work abroad, I did that for a few years, but then I came back to the US and settled home. |
Anonymous
A two-bedroom for four unrelated adults is not reasonable/normal in the US. |
Anonymous
You are gonna get what you get and not throw a fit. |
Anonymous
The “raises” are pitiful. The pension is terrible. The benefits aren’t “amazing” and the working conditions are awful. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like it's similar to au pair cultural exchange programs but for teachers. |
Anonymous
I lived like this and so did my son in his 20s. Great way to save money. |
Anonymous
How nice for you? The Filipino teachers are likely grown adults with their own families at home, not 20-somethings straight out of college. |