Dr. McKnight wants to use money County Council earmarked for counselors to hire more administrators
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Anonymous
| Is anyone following this? Dr McKnight wants to use the money the County Council designated to hire 50 mental health professionals and hire fewer and use the money to hire more central office administrators/supervisors instead. Can she do this? It's infuriating. Here's a reporter's tweet about it. https://twitter.com/ramirezreports/status/1517277001668861953?s=21&t=AoQgFPCZJmf7_q3PSJjkQQ |
Anonymous
| presumably the 50 will need supervision? |
Anonymous
So they're angry because 44 full-time and 15 part-time mental health professionals require 7 managers? |
Anonymous
Well the work is going to be contracted out. So I guess the vendor that won the contract included supervisors in the bid? Interesting. |
Anonymous
| Is it supervision for the counselors or random other admin positions? Unclear |
Anonymous
| How is that infuriating? |
Anonymous
| That actually seems relatively lean in terms of number of direct reports per supervisor |
Anonymous
| I have a lot of experience with the mental health "professionals" fairfax county contracts with-the lowest bottom of the scraped barrel least qualified people you can possibly imagine. |
Anonymous
| Is the money going to supervisors of the subcontracted mental health professionals or to some other unspecified administrators in central office? |
Anonymous
Reading between the lines they couldn’t get enough people to bite on the low paying positions so they needed to shuffle and create ways to make some of the positions pay more. I don’t have intel but this is just a guess. That said, it sounds like way too many supervisors to me if the professionals are actually qualified/trained professionals. |
Anonymous
I guess it isn't really but I just like to complain about everything MCPS does. |
Anonymous
That's what I think too. |
Anonymous
So what are the odds this is the same poster who started all the fuss about the recruiting trip to the HBCU? |
Anonymous
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208 wellness centers
23 psychologists 2 social workers 19 full-time school counselors 15 part-time school counselors 7 leadership The question is not the leadership ratio (approximately 8 or 10 to 1, depending on how they organize). The question is the number of staff and how much staff time will be spent at wellness centers at each of the 208 schools that will be established? Spreading the resources equally to all schools using a 40-hour workweek: - Psychologist: 4 hrs 24 min per week per school - Social Worker: 22 min per week per school - Full-Time School Counselors: 3 hrs 38 min per week per school - Part-Time (assume 20/hrs per week) School Counselors: 1 hr 26 min per week per school Unfortunately, this is too optimistic an estimate. In reality, unless they're planning to go to a family's house in the evening, the staff would only be able to work from 9 to 3 PM, at best (6 hour day, 30 hours a week)? Using a 30-hour workweek, spreading the resources equally to all schools: - Psychologist: 3 hrs 18 min per week per school - Social Worker: 17 min per week per school - Full-Time School Counselors: 2 hrs 43 min per week per school - Part-Time (assume 15/hrs per week) School Counselors: 1 hr 4 min per week per school |
Anonymous
| Calculation assumption: "leaders" don't help students. |