Teachers not returning. MCPS to hire “Monitors” instead

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Anonymous wrote:Very few of my low income families are returning to school. They cannot afford to get sick. The families who want to send their kids back are wealthy and white.

This is also the impression we got from the presentation in our daughter’s school. It’s just a statement of fact that the kids who will be doing in-person are mostly white and those that chose DL are mostly non-white and poor. No need to get offended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very few of my low income families are returning to school. They cannot afford to get sick. The families who want to send their kids back are wealthy and white.

This is also the impression we got from the presentation in our daughter’s school. It’s just a statement of fact that the kids who will be doing in-person are mostly white and those that chose DL are mostly non-white and poor. No need to get offended.

Are you including Asian-Americans in the "mostly non-white and poor" category?

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people start taking accountability for their lives? Look at what happens when society relies so much on schools to care for children. Wake up people!!!

Do you mean educate children?

Education is happening. People are just sick of their kids. They want the child care part of school back.

You are out of touch and accusing parents of not wanting to be around their kids is disgusting. I know so people who are modestly paid nurses, EMTs, and TEACHERS who cannot stay at home with kids and are struggling with childcare. You must live in a bubble.

The people I know who are fighting the hardest for this have never spent more than a week alone with their kids. We are going on a year and they cannot stand it anymore. They'll send them back whatever the setup is.

Exactly. The screamers are the privileged. To them, inconvenience feels like oppression.

The truly poor and financially struggling families are used to constant life crises and not having anyone to bail them out, so they are quietly buckling down and finding ways to manage under new stressful conditions, just like they have always had to do.

I almost can't believe this is a real comment. You know that being able to have / supervise your kids while they safely sit on a computer at home is the EPITOME of privilege, right? You're really beyond nasty (and trying to hide behind those you so kindly refer to as "them.'" Beyond gross.

I am black and grew up in a household that struggled financially. I am part of a large family. We have had these discussions and I completely agree with what the previous poster stated. We are not strangers to adversity. We don’t wait around for the system to work for us, because usually it doesn’t. Get a grip.

Which poster are you referring to? You don't think it's a privilege to be able to telework and have a safe, cozy place for your kids to do distance learning?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very few of my low income families are returning to school. They cannot afford to get sick. The families who want to send their kids back are wealthy and white.

This is also the impression we got from the presentation in our daughter’s school. It’s just a statement of fact that the kids who will be doing in-person are mostly white and those that chose DL are mostly non-white and poor. No need to get offended.

Your school indicated the kids' race in a presentation?

[Anonymous]

What happened to the YouTube link w reopening options?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

It absolutely does have to do with race. And you know it. This looks really bad. MCPS should be ashamed. Sending poor minorities in to do the job of mostly white well to do teachers. Because the teachers are too special to return like all of the other teachers are doing across the country. Embarrassing and shameful!

They have become even more disrespected. I will go to the grocery store and make the stock boys and cashiers work for me, even though I can easily purchase groceries online. But I will not go in and teach my students because I can teach them on line. A double standard. Groceries stores, gyms, casinos, restaurants, etc.. have shown time and time and time again that they are more dangerous than schools.

Yet these teachers are literally trying NOT to go back so they can collect a paycheck for their part time work. They don't care about the students, their well being, them falling behind, how lonely some are at home while their parents work, or their mental health issues. NOT THEIR PROBLEM. I will never ever respect this occupation ever again. At least in Montgomery County. I have multiple family members that have been teaching back at school since Aug/Sept and have no issues, no outbreaks, and the kids are doing well.

And no - teachers are not a priority over health care providers, police officers, fireman, store employees, etc... The private school teachers that have been working bravely for months, yes. They should get them right now. Our teachers sitting at home. Nope. Nada. You only get one if you agree to go back as soon as the county is ready. All the ones opting out because they are selfish a-holes. You don't get a vaccine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very few of my low income families are returning to school. They cannot afford to get sick. The families who want to send their kids back are wealthy and white.

This is also the impression we got from the presentation in our daughter’s school. It’s just a statement of fact that the kids who will be doing in-person are mostly white and those that chose DL are mostly non-white and poor. No need to get offended.

Are you including Asian-Americans in the "mostly non-white and poor" category?

There are very few Asian-Americans in our daughter’s school. But I see your point, I should have been more specific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a weird assumption. I'm not in MCPS. 95% of our teachers came back. We also hired monitors on a short term basis, in person, with no benefits. By and large, these are white, middle class young adults who couldn't go to college in person because of covid, and who have time and interest in making extra money while they're home. Many still qualify for benefits under their parents! They are healthy and working side by side people like me, a white middle aged person who is teaching in person. They do things like remind kids to pull up their masks, help with dismissal, etc. OP, you really need to take a deep breath.

I don't think accuracy is the point here. It's the newest shiny talking point of the right wing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very few of my low income families are returning to school. They cannot afford to get sick. The families who want to send their kids back are wealthy and white.

I think this also has to do with the fact that many low income or working class income students can take care of themselves as the parents work out of home even before Covid. They were doing this a lot before on days off and once school lets out in the afternoon. And many immigrants of various income levels tend to live with extended family, so grandparents are in the home too.

Right now a lot of the middle class and higher folks have parents and kids all working at home and it is not working. No extended family to help. And parents from middle income and higher, tend to coddle their kids and think they can not be home alone (and no I am not talking about kids 8 and younger but late ES to HS)

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Anonymous wrote:Very few of my low income families are returning to school. They cannot afford to get sick. The families who want to send their kids back are wealthy and white.

This is also the impression we got from the presentation in our daughter’s school. It’s just a statement of fact that the kids who will be doing in-person are mostly white and those that chose DL are mostly non-white and poor. No need to get offended.

Are you including Asian-Americans in the "mostly non-white and poor" category?

Good point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a weird assumption. I'm not in MCPS. 95% of our teachers came back. We also hired monitors on a short term basis, in person, with no benefits. By and large, these are white, middle class young adults who couldn't go to college in person because of covid, and who have time and interest in making extra money while they're home. Many still qualify for benefits under their parents! They are healthy and working side by side people like me, a white middle aged person who is teaching in person. They do things like remind kids to pull up their masks, help with dismissal, etc. OP, you really need to take a deep breath.

I don't think accuracy is the point here. It's the newest shiny talking point of the right wing.

My brother is a teacher and all but 6 teachers came back FT to their public elementary school in August. None have left.

I don't think people in this immediate area realize that most of the country and world are back in school. WE are the minority. Not the other way around.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a weird assumption. I'm not in MCPS. 95% of our teachers came back. We also hired monitors on a short term basis, in person, with no benefits. By and large, these are white, middle class young adults who couldn't go to college in person because of covid, and who have time and interest in making extra money while they're home. Many still qualify for benefits under their parents! They are healthy and working side by side people like me, a white middle aged person who is teaching in person. They do things like remind kids to pull up their masks, help with dismissal, etc. OP, you really need to take a deep breath.

I don't think accuracy is the point here. It's the newest shiny talking point of the right wing.

My brother is a teacher and all but 6 teachers came back FT to their public elementary school in August. None have left.

I don't think people in this immediate area realize that most of the country and world are back in school. WE are the minority. Not the other way around.

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My SIL is a teacher in southern Virginia. So really not even that far from here. They literally had one teacher from their entire elementary who did not return in person (and this was pre-vaccine). No cases in the school, open for months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers must be protected at all costs. Monitors are less important. Kids will be just fine sitting in clusters in school rooms with a monitor while the teacher is safely at home.

So another person’s life and health are worth less? And you would trust some random HS grad with your kids? This is a nightmare waiting to happen.

[Anonymous]

I don't think people in this immediate area realize that most of the country and world are back in school. WE are the minority. Not the other way around.

We also have some of the lowest case rates in the country. MD/VA, ME/NH/VT, WA/OR, and MI are the only states under 6.4% cases/M. Asymptomatic transmission is the reason we can’t easily get the virus under control. And before you fling some stupid study about schools not increasing community spread, I call bs. You can’t study what you don’t measure. I prefer not to be like the rest of the world- plenty of mistakes happening out there.

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/

[Anonymous]

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I don't think people in this immediate area realize that most of the country and world are back in school. WE are the minority. Not the other way around.

We also have some of the lowest case rates in the country. MD/VA, ME/NH/VT, WA/OR, and MI are the only states under 6.4% cases/M. Asymptomatic transmission is the reason we can’t easily get the virus under control. And before you fling some stupid study about schools not increasing community spread, I call bs. You can’t study what you don’t measure. I prefer not to be like the rest of the world- plenty of mistakes happening out there.

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/

Well, yeah, when you pre-emptively put all data and studies in the BS category, that doesn't leave much.