School board approves $3.3 billion budget

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

One of the CO jobs to go could be the one of Medical Officer (??)

This is definitely happening. The medical officer and her staff have been eliminated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:budget maintains essential services AND
includes investments in:
special education
mental health
language arts
community schools program (what is this?) continuation of that 2 year negotiated salary
agreements between MCPS and its employee
associations.

Maintains??? soap in bathrooms and toilet paper - aren't those essential? How do they plan to maintain when some schools don't have them in first place?

Also, someone spoke at the BOE meeting yesterday saying some schools can not make 911 or emergency calls or have working speakers inside the school. So, no there is no maintaining being done when essential services are not even available?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:budget maintains essential services AND
includes investments in:
special education
mental health
language arts
community schools program (what is this?) continuation of that 2 year negotiated salary
agreements between MCPS and its employee
associations.

Maintains??? soap in bathrooms and toilet paper - aren't those essential? How do they plan to maintain when some schools don't have them in first place?

Also, someone spoke at the BOE meeting yesterday saying some schools can not make 911 or emergency calls or have working speakers inside the school. So, no there is no maintaining being done when essential services are not even available?

Contact County Health Dept.

Contact County Council about the emergency calls situation. There is a free DHomelandSecutity service that can be implemented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

The same thing they had been doing for decades before the MVA was created for Covid - the kids who have medical issues necessitating that they stay home will receive IIS instruction. Families can apply to have the county pay for private virtual learning in some cases. In the case of families that used the MVA for their kids because their kid was shy, socially awkward, bullied at school, etc. (i.e., no medical issues) they will return to their home school or apply for a prioritized COSA and go back in-person at another school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

One of the CO jobs to go could be the one of Medical Officer (??)

This is definitely happening. The medical officer and her staff have been eliminated.

Yes. From Felder's memo:

• The Office of the Deputy Superintendent is being abolished along with the vacant deputy
superintendent position and one position in the office.
• The Office of the Chief of Staff is being reduced by two positions.
• The Office of the School System Medical Officer is being abolished eliminating
six positions.
• Other personnel-related reductions across the MCPS central service supports include three
coordinators, two supervisors, one team leader, two program managers, one instructional
specialist, and one parent community coordinator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

There is no reduction

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

The same thing they had been doing for decades before the MVA was created for Covid - the kids who have medical issues necessitating that they stay home will receive IIS instruction. Families can apply to have the county pay for private virtual learning in some cases. In the case of families that used the MVA for their kids because their kid was shy, socially awkward, bullied at school, etc. (i.e., no medical issues) they will return to their home school or apply for a prioritized COSA and go back in-person at another school.

bullied kids have to move schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

The same thing they had been doing for decades before the MVA was created for Covid - the kids who have medical issues necessitating that they stay home will receive IIS instruction. Families can apply to have the county pay for private virtual learning in some cases. In the case of families that used the MVA for their kids because their kid was shy, socially awkward, bullied at school, etc. (i.e., no medical issues) they will return to their home school or apply for a prioritized COSA and go back in-person at another school.

bullied kids have to move schools?

Of course they don't have to - who said they did?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the problems is that in trying to be everything, academics and education become diluted. Schools are now supposed to be social workers, social-emotional learning specialists, psychologists, drug addiction specialists - I'm not saying there isn't a need for these services but they shouldn't come from school budgets.

agree 100%. There needs to be more county/state/federal funding for these things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

The same thing they had been doing for decades before the MVA was created for Covid - the kids who have medical issues necessitating that they stay home will receive IIS instruction. Families can apply to have the county pay for private virtual learning in some cases. In the case of families that used the MVA for their kids because their kid was shy, socially awkward, bullied at school, etc. (i.e., no medical issues) they will return to their home school or apply for a prioritized COSA and go back in-person at another school.

bullied kids have to move schools?

There are a few bullies on here who are happy and glad these kids are forced back so they and their kids can continue bullying them. Mcps isn’t giving the cosa as promised. They left these families in a bad situation. Iis is not an education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

The same thing they had been doing for decades before the MVA was created for Covid - the kids who have medical issues necessitating that they stay home will receive IIS instruction. Families can apply to have the county pay for private virtual learning in some cases. In the case of families that used the MVA for their kids because their kid was shy, socially awkward, bullied at school, etc. (i.e., no medical issues) they will return to their home school or apply for a prioritized COSA and go back in-person at another school.

bullied kids have to move schools?

There are a few bullies on here who are happy and glad these kids are forced back so they and their kids can continue bullying them. Mcps isn’t giving the cosa as promised. They left these families in a bad situation. Iis is not an education.

People need to apply for the COSAs in order for MCPS to give them. I'm surprised you can make this assertion since it's only been about a week since MCPS announced that the MVA will close, which then triggered the prioritized COSA application process that MCPS laid out in the MVA closure announcement. I know you just randomly threw that out there and lied, but let's try not to spread misinformation about the results of a prioritized COSA process that has been in existence for a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the problems is that in trying to be everything, academics and education become diluted. Schools are now supposed to be social workers, social-emotional learning specialists, psychologists, drug addiction specialists - I'm not saying there isn't a need for these services but they shouldn't come from school budgets.

agree 100%. There needs to be more county/state/federal funding for these things.

Mcps has plenty of money. When a bullied child kills themselves because of mcps will the nasty posters on here, don’t act all surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

The same thing they had been doing for decades before the MVA was created for Covid - the kids who have medical issues necessitating that they stay home will receive IIS instruction. Families can apply to have the county pay for private virtual learning in some cases. In the case of families that used the MVA for their kids because their kid was shy, socially awkward, bullied at school, etc. (i.e., no medical issues) they will return to their home school or apply for a prioritized COSA and go back in-person at another school.

bullied kids have to move schools?

Of course they don't have to - who said they did?

They always do have to move. Who says? The victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reductions of over $30 million

-increasing class size guidelines by one student in K-12 classes and reduction of 122.7 full time positions, reduction of 0.4 full time staff development teachers in MS and HS (goodbye, ssl coordinators?)

-retirements and other vacancies (are they forcing people to retire?)

-eliminating 20 central services positions from all employee groups (who is out?)

-eliminating Montgomery Virtual Academy

-delaying expansion of pre-k program until at least 25-26 school year

What are MVA families planning to do now?

The same thing they had been doing for decades before the MVA was created for Covid - the kids who have medical issues necessitating that they stay home will receive IIS instruction. Families can apply to have the county pay for private virtual learning in some cases. In the case of families that used the MVA for their kids because their kid was shy, socially awkward, bullied at school, etc. (i.e., no medical issues) they will return to their home school or apply for a prioritized COSA and go back in-person at another school.

bullied kids have to move schools?

Of course they don't have to - who said they did?

They always do have to move. Who says? The victims.

Oh, ok. Still sounds like a choice to me.