What are the list of MCPS positions set to be laid off (assuming the budget cuts go through)?
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Anonymous
Oh you again. Just go away- I'm sorry your kids didn't get in but don't assume your reason for applying to language immersion is the same as everyone else's. (FWIW, we deliberatebly bought a house in bounds for a dual immersion school, which gasp, has a decent percentage of Latino students, because learning a foreign language is important to our family. sorry if that's a weird concept for you!) |
Anonymous
This is true. They should have it for Spanish speaker only kids and make Spanish a special for all other kids. |
Anonymous
He said more sped staff last year and did a quick change this year. |
Anonymous
They are only cutting electives for the rich schools. The rest of our schools never had much in the first place. But, what little we do have is getting cut. |
Anonymous
Considering CO staff make a lot more than media assitants, for starters, the relative cost savings per position would go a lot further. I totally get that not all of the job cuts could be from CO, but it really doesn't feel like they made a good faith effort there with only 30. They should be making every effort to minimize the impacts to students. |
Anonymous
Maybe we should start evaluating the need for language instruction at all in public schools- how many students can actually converse in the language upon gradation? And what is the need when the rest of the world learns English already? That's a lot of money that could be spent elsewhere. |
Anonymous
Because Woodward is opening as a new school. Crown is not. |
Anonymous
| Instead of opening new schools when the population is going down, they should be closing some underutilized elementary and middle schools. Shutting down a few of these would solve the whole budget issue. |
Anonymous
+10000 I’m just a parent (and former banc kid) but cutting music or similar for pre-teens sound like one of the most destructive choices you could make. And I have a hard time believing that making math class 15 minutes longer would help scores at all, when targeted interventions, extra hw, or better textbooks might. |
Anonymous
Which ones? |
Anonymous
You do understand that populations in a lot of these communities are very cyclical. The Montgomery Village schools are all facing massive low enrollment because many of the homes in the Village were bought in the late 80s/Early 90s and those people still live in those homes without children. In the 90s, Halloween used to be an event where the whole village essentially was shut down due to massive trick or treating participation. Now we are lucky to get 3 kids the entire night in our extremely walkable neighborhood. These older, childless households won't stay there forever. The Village will likely see a massive housing spike in the next 5-10 years as these homes all turnover. Whether housing prices stay at a level where families can afford them is a different question though. |
Anonymous
Likewise, math needs to go. We have calculators. And English is only needed through 8th grade at most, at which point you are literate enough to use ChatGPT. |
Anonymous
I know you joke but you aren't exactly wrong. After middle school, our entire educational model should be changed to be career focused. We don't need to create well rounded students anymore. We desperately need to create specialized workers for a changing economy and workforce. College should be limited to only very essential programs such as law and medicine. Most other majors should be eliminated and replaced with OJT seeing how like 90% of entry level jobs will train you to do things a specific way that is often counter productive to what you learned in college. |
Anonymous
Right- this was what happened in my neighborhood. Enrollement in the local ES declined as families aged and MCPS closed the school, but then when the neighborhood, and other nearby neighborhoods, started turning over, the consolidated ES they were now all attending became overcrowded and there were portables for years until a new ES was built (FWIW, the previously closed ES is still owned by the county, but leased out to other entities). I think there has too often been a knee jerk reaction to declining enrollment and not enough foresight as to how patterns will change again a few years down the road. |
Anonymous
Not PP, but to me one of the differences is that math and ELA are taught from the beginning of school and built upon. Unless they are in an immersion program, most students do not have the opportunity to learn a foreign language in ES, when it would be most effective. By not starting until late MS or even HS in some districts, it feels performative rather than a real attempt to teach a skill. |