Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you prefer they and their families go hungry? The teachers I know are thinking of their students and how to best teach and support them under the requirements of their districts. STFU

I would prefer MCPS have them actually teach.

I don’t understand. “Actually teach” where? How? At school do they can bring The virus back home?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARENTS:

You might want to listen during the zoom call. Several kids commented that their parents were still asleep during my kid’s 9am zoom call this morning.

I cal total BS on this post. With as pathetic as the Zoom technology has been in MCPS has been and as hard as it’s been to actually log on and find a teacher on the other side, no kid is navigating that solo. Parents are awake and working hard.

Sad the contempt so many teachers have for parents.
You know, the people who pay their salaries.

I teach MS. It was shocking how many students claim they are home alone 12+ hours, sometimes caring for younger siblings. These are not low income students (I can see the very nice large suburban home interiors) or the children of essential workers. The parents are just checked out somewhere else.

How the hell do you know who is an essential worker?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here. We ALL know parents like the OP. And we all feel so sorry for their kids. We get why these poor kids have issues.

Hey OP: we DO talk about you at lunchtime.

Yea, piss poor performers in every workplace gossip and complain when someone shines the light on their slacking. It’s night that you’ve highlighted that teachers are no different. Bravo!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here. We ALL know parents like the OP. And we all feel so sorry for their kids. We get why these poor kids have issues.

Hey OP: we DO talk about you at lunchtime.

You shouldn’t be in teaching - you should be fired.

Parents work hard for the taxes that pay your salary. Many of us have also had to convert from in-person work to remote work. We didn’t get three weeks to prepare and then the ability to be productive only a fraction of the work day.

The questions are simple: What prep was actually done before this week? Why only 40 minutes of instruction?

But instead of answering questions about the pathetic instruction MCPS has provided despite three weeks of prep and for ES only 40 minutes of instruction, you mock them.

Oh go blow it out your ass. I’m an MCPS teacher who pays taxes too and has kids in the MCPS system. I’m sure I in some way contribute to you or your spouses salary too but I’m not complaining about whatever your massive contributions to society are. And if I am working during the summer, someone better pay me because I have a 10-month contract. All of us teacher came into this profession for altruistic reasons. And guess what? Most of us all want to quit now because of the parents.

[Anonymous]

No one is happy with slow pace of roll out, especially teachers. I think a lot depends on the teacher. My DS's 5th grade teacher switched up platforms after yesterday's zoom failure. She managed to actually have productive conversation with kids, 2 hour ELA lesson followed by writing homework, plus half hour of open conversation time after session was over.
She came to the session fully prepared with teaching materials and slides as well as interesting assignment my 5th grader was happy to complete today.
I am not sure if our ES is going to use Eureka. My DS is still getting daily assignments from his teacher in math on Khan. She has been assigning him work daily (weekdays) since they were out.
In all, I estimate his teacher works the same amount of time if not way more now. Plus she probably has to attend all the ridiculous training.
Am I happy with the pace this is going - NO, but blame should go where it belongs - Central Office. They were not prepared and are actively hampering education for majority of children because they pretend to care about special needs (ie dont want to be sued).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you expecting teachers to make a house call to each student or have a 6 hour zoom conference? It’s not going to be the same. This is just the beginning. Once things get rolling, I’m sure the work will pick up. Chill out!

How long can school systems keep saying this? I've now been teleworking for over 3 weeks and rest assured we aren't just chilling out and figuring out how to get things rolling. Work couldn't wait.

This is I think why so many working parents don't understand what is taking so long across the board. I don't know of anyone else who's employer is saying "yeah, it's been a few weeks but we'll get there. Don't worry about delivering your work product."

+1. This. Teachers can break kids into small groups and send parents assigned times. They could have one on ones with kids for 10 minutes, once a week if they’re not happy with the big groups. And yes, a lot of us are working from home and figuring it out. There just needs to be willingness on the part of the teacher and McPS. This isn’t a snow day. School probably won’t open again until the fall.

Teachers can do what they are told they can do.

[Anonymous]

Do you realize how many teachers are crying because they feel unarmed to teach in a totally new way? This applies to preparing/recording lessons (MCPS thing) and uploading to learning how to maneuver the technology !!!
We are supposed to get multiple training and be able to use them right away instantly as there’s no time to get used to the system.
Everything was dumped on us at once.
Even though we were told to use the platform of choice (Google Classroom vs. MyMCPS) certain principals are enforcing MyMCPS. For certain subjects there are no premade lessons. Being tech savvy does not translate into being a good teacher and many great teachers can feel a “handicapped” with all this new way of delivery of content. I had prepared most of my lessons when I found out this evening that our school no longer wants us to use Google Classroom. I’m taking care of my children now but at about midnight , I need to go and learn how to use a new platform. More than likely I will have to change at least 50 % of the content due by Monday morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not meant to bash anyone, but I am curious what the specials teachers are doing? I'm referring to PE, Art and Music teachers. I can't imagine that they are able to do any teaching right now so I'm wondering how they are being utilized. Since they are certified teachers, I'm guessing that they can be providing additional support to classroom teachers. I think that would be an effective way of giving students more small group instruction and support.

You’re totally wrong.
They have to create lessons, record them, upload them every week. The county has told them to do one new lesson to k-2 for one week and 3-5 the other week as well as weekly Zoom live sessions with parents. I’m hearing that a few schools are being told by their principals to deliver new content to every grade every week and do a live Zoom meeting with each grade level every week.
It’s going to be much more challenging and time consuming than F2F teaching.
If you can’t be nice to the teachers please don’t be so mean towards them.

[Anonymous]

I'm frustrated with the minimalist education that my 5th grader is receiving. I have an older kid and it's a little bit better, but basically MCPS has thrown the elementary education to the wolves.

I have a niece and nephew who live in NYC and public schools there moved to distance learning 1 week after the schools shut down. This, despite massive inequality and 140k homeless students. They have Zoom classes from 9am to 1pm five days per week, plus assignments. Why can't MCPS do the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here. We ALL know parents like the OP. And we all feel so sorry for their kids. We get why these poor kids have issues.

Hey OP: we DO talk about you at lunchtime.

You shouldn’t be in teaching - you should be fired.

Parents work hard for the taxes that pay your salary. Many of us have also had to convert from in-person work to remote work. We didn’t get three weeks to prepare and then the ability to be productive only a fraction of the work day.

The questions are simple: What prep was actually done before this week? Why only 40 minutes of instruction?

But instead of answering questions about the pathetic instruction MCPS has provided despite three weeks of prep and for ES only 40 minutes of instruction, you mock them.

Oh go blow it out your ass. I’m an MCPS teacher who pays taxes too and has kids in the MCPS system. I’m sure I in some way contribute to you or your spouses salary too but I’m not complaining about whatever your massive contributions to society are. And if I am working during the summer, someone better pay me because I have a 10-month contract. All of us teacher came into this profession for altruistic reasons. And guess what? Most of us all want to quit now because of the parents.

My spouse and I are delivering 100% if not more to our clients during this time. We’re not delivering a fraction of the service and doing a crappy job of it at that.

And no, you’ve had a couple weeks of a very light load while the county was “prepping”. You got paid 100% - which is fine. But you don’t get paid extra to do your job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you realize how many teachers are crying because they feel unarmed to teach in a totally new way? This applies to preparing/recording lessons (MCPS thing) and uploading to learning how to maneuver the technology !!!
We are supposed to get multiple training and be able to use them right away instantly as there’s no time to get used to the system.
Everything was dumped on us at once.
Even though we were told to use the platform of choice (Google Classroom vs. MyMCPS) certain principals are enforcing MyMCPS. For certain subjects there are no premade lessons. Being tech savvy does not translate into being a good teacher and many great teachers can feel a “handicapped” with all this new way of delivery of content. I had prepared most of my lessons when I found out this evening that our school no longer wants us to use Google Classroom. I’m taking care of my children now but at about midnight , I need to go and learn how to use a new platform. More than likely I will have to change at least 50 % of the content due by Monday morning.

Welcome to working world right now. Many of us if not most of us are depending on virtual meetings and interfaces like NEVER before. It is a tough time - teachers are dealing with the same challenges but have the benefit in MCPS of a few weeks lead time. Most of us got no time to adjust; just sink or swim.

Also teachers are not morons - they use technology in the class and I their personal lives already. Virtual meetings aren’t rocket science. Theoretically they have a curriculum. Now they just have to teach it. And that’s the worry; with 45 minutes a day, some of which is naturally dedicated to settling the kids and saying hellos, etc, what is being taught?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not meant to bash anyone, but I am curious what the specials teachers are doing? I'm referring to PE, Art and Music teachers. I can't imagine that they are able to do any teaching right now so I'm wondering how they are being utilized. Since they are certified teachers, I'm guessing that they can be providing additional support to classroom teachers. I think that would be an effective way of giving students more small group instruction and support.

You’re totally wrong.
They have to create lessons, record them, upload them every week. The county has told them to do one new lesson to k-2 for one week and 3-5 the other week as well as weekly Zoom live sessions with parents. I’m hearing that a few schools are being told by their principals to deliver new content to every grade every week and do a live Zoom meeting with each grade level every week.
It’s going to be much more challenging and time consuming than F2F teaching.
If you can’t be nice to the teachers please don’t be so mean towards them.

How is anything posted above by the PP mean?

Posters are asking good questions and the response is either a bundle of insults towards parents or deflections about Trump or absurd “don’t be so mean to us” comments.

Using Zoom or other virtual formats is a shift, but most of the world is making that shift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you expecting teachers to make a house call to each student or have a 6 hour zoom conference? It’s not going to be the same. This is just the beginning. Once things get rolling, I’m sure the work will pick up. Chill out!

How long can school systems keep saying this? I've now been teleworking for over 3 weeks and rest assured we aren't just chilling out and figuring out how to get things rolling. Work couldn't wait.

This is I think why so many working parents don't understand what is taking so long across the board. I don't know of anyone else who's employer is saying "yeah, it's been a few weeks but we'll get there. Don't worry about delivering your work product."

+1. This. Teachers can break kids into small groups and send parents assigned times. They could have one on ones with kids for 10 minutes, once a week if they’re not happy with the big groups. And yes, a lot of us are working from home and figuring it out. There just needs to be willingness on the part of the teacher and McPS. This isn’t a snow day. School probably won’t open again until the fall.

Teachers can do what they are told they can do.

So McPS is actively stopping teachers from engaging with their students? Or teachers are teaching for 45 minutes because MCPS told them that was the minimum and most teachers prefer to do the minimum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARENTS:

You might want to listen during the zoom call. Several kids commented that their parents were still asleep during my kid’s 9am zoom call this morning.

I cal total BS on this post. With as pathetic as the Zoom technology has been in MCPS has been and as hard as it’s been to actually log on and find a teacher on the other side, no kid is navigating that solo. Parents are awake and working hard.

Sad the contempt so many teachers have for parents.
You know, the people who pay their salaries.

I teach MS. It was shocking how many students claim they are home alone 12+ hours, sometimes caring for younger siblings. These are not low income students (I can see the very nice large suburban home interiors) or the children of essential workers. The parents are just checked out somewhere else.

How the hell do you know who is an essential worker?

School ended in March not October. Of course, we know what the parents do for a living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you expecting teachers to make a house call to each student or have a 6 hour zoom conference? It’s not going to be the same. This is just the beginning. Once things get rolling, I’m sure the work will pick up. Chill out!

How long can school systems keep saying this? I've now been teleworking for over 3 weeks and rest assured we aren't just chilling out and figuring out how to get things rolling. Work couldn't wait.

This is I think why so many working parents don't understand what is taking so long across the board. I don't know of anyone else who's employer is saying "yeah, it's been a few weeks but we'll get there. Don't worry about delivering your work product."

+1. This. Teachers can break kids into small groups and send parents assigned times. They could have one on ones with kids for 10 minutes, once a week if they’re not happy with the big groups. And yes, a lot of us are working from home and figuring it out. There just needs to be willingness on the part of the teacher and McPS. This isn’t a snow day. School probably won’t open again until the fall.

Teachers can do what they are told they can do.

So McPS is actively stopping teachers from engaging with their students? Or teachers are teaching for 45 minutes because MCPS told them that was the minimum and most teachers prefer to do the minimum?

Maybe you can look at schedules on the email that MCPS released last night which explains the rationale and then consult the schedule that your school’s admin team developed. Yes, teachers are prohibited from going outside those parameters.