Treatment of New Special Ed teachers hired by MCPS

[Anonymous]

Why would MCPS provide furniture and household iteams for new employees? Our of what budget?!

Maybe they should have put them up in furnished apartments as part of the contract. But they didn't.

[Anonymous]

So MCPS is paying for their housing and beds? How much is that costing?

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why the budget is paying for their housing expenses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can only confirm that before the request went to Buy Nothing groups it originated on a teacher FB page that I’m part of.

We’ve seen them on next door.

There’s a huge Filipino community in MoCo. I am sure that some families would willingly take in a teacher as a lodger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And they wonder why people homeschool or go private….

Most people do not homeschool or go private, and especially not for special ed. Go post on a different forum.

[Anonymous]

The county providing dining room tables for new teachers from the Philippines to sleep on makes me question this story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the budget is paying for their housing expenses.

This is how the Filipino teachers throughout the US are contracted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would MCPS provide furniture and household iteams for new employees? Our of what budget?!

Maybe they should have put them up in furnished apartments as part of the contract. But they didn't.

This is a special program due to the extreme, long standing shortage of SpEd teachers in MCPS. Other school districts have done it for math.

This isn’t a 22 year old new hire from a Mid-Atlantic state who can drive to MoCo with her parents, stay in a hotel they pay for for a day or two until she finds a cute apartment they will co-sign for, and then go on IKEA and Target runs on her parents’ CC until the first full paycheck in September.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the budget is paying for their housing expenses.

This is how the Filipino teachers throughout the US are contracted.

I'm sorry but how is this fair? Do other teacher recruits receive these benefits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hiring special ed teachers from the Philippines? Is this the answer to the teacher shortage?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the budget is paying for their housing expenses.

This is how the Filipino teachers throughout the US are contracted.

I'm sorry but how is this fair? Do other teacher recruits receive these benefits?

[Anonymous]

They make their recruitment process impossible for an average Joe- then go to another country to find people instead? Why not make it easier to get a job in public schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The county providing dining room tables for new teachers from the Philippines to sleep on makes me question this story.

OP here, that was a typo in my original post. Our neighbor said they gave them
Beds with no sheets and dining room
Tables and that is it.

To those wondering why the Philippines, there is a long-standing history of US hospitals bringing in Filipino nurses to address nursing shortages, for many, many years. You may not have experienced this but in many areas they can’t hire nurses and hospitals end up having to recruit internationally. The Philippines has many schools of nursing that prepare nurses and there are established processes for health systems to bring these employees to the US. Sounds like teaching is now taking this approach.

Teaching has an insane turnover and special Ed is even more so, there are significant occupational hazards, it’s highly stressful, lots of litigation concerns, and it’s hard to recruit teachers in the Us for these jobs. We also pay teachers crap. So that is where we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And they wonder why people homeschool or go private….

Most people do not homeschool or go private, and especially not for special ed. Go post on a different forum.

Homeschool co-ops are filled to capacity months before the school year. Private schools are full of sped kids. Special needs privates for more intensive placements. You might not like it but it’s definitely a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They make their recruitment process impossible for an average Joe- then go to another country to find people instead? Why not make it easier to get a job in public schools?

Average Joes are not applying for enough of the special ed teacher jobs.