MCPS Human Resources

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...

You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.

Btw they're all on the teacher salary scale

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the Fed to Ed program is taking away positions from teachers who are actually certified. Meanwhile, some person from the IRS has conditional certification...ridiculous.

Explain how if there were excess openings that exceeded the # of certified teachers who were interested in applying?

Well they aren’t hiring people who are certified and more than qualified. I have two friends who were trying to move to McPs bc of the shit in DC and got zero calls this summer. No interview invites, just straight rejection emails. These are both teachers rated highly effective in DCPS and have 10 years experience. I’ve heard similiar on the MCPS teacher fb group.

What subjects? I took a Special Education job because I couldn't get a social studies job despite being certified to teach it. There are plenty more special ed jobs out there

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Feds to Eds are being trained and hired in areas of shortages - STEM, Languages, and Special Ed. They aren’t displacing other teachers. And it’s a small group <20.

https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/news/press-releases/2025-5-28-governor-moore-joins-mc-president-education-leaders-to-announce-grant-bolstering-marylands-teaching-program.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...

You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.

It just seems like a luxury, and they should focus on the basics (paying employees on time, background checks) first. MCPS is 75.6% non-white students, so it's not like the groups you cited are marginalized. Latinos for example are the largest group at MCPS, at 34.6%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...

You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.

It just seems like a luxury, and they should focus on the basics (paying employees on time, background checks) first. MCPS is 75.6% non-white students, so it's not like the groups you cited are marginalized. Latinos for example are the largest group at MCPS, at 34.6%.

Neither of those things would be fixed with money. The new pay system was just rolled out and the additional screenings with rapback enrollment are underway. It seems you have a personal issue with equity. Maybe you should join their next training

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...

You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.

It just seems like a luxury, and they should focus on the basics (paying employees on time, background checks) first. MCPS is 75.6% non-white students, so it's not like the groups you cited are marginalized. Latinos for example are the largest group at MCPS, at 34.6%.

And we still have a majority white female workforce who don’t all know how to engage with other cultures effectively or understand bias.

There is so much implicit bias in classrooms. I am white and more than once I’ve watched teachers hand FARMS applications to Black and Latino parents and not to me at BTSN or Open House. That’s just a small example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...

You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.

It just seems like a luxury, and they should focus on the basics (paying employees on time, background checks) first. MCPS is 75.6% non-white students, so it's not like the groups you cited are marginalized. Latinos for example are the largest group at MCPS, at 34.6%.

And we still have a majority white female workforce who don’t all know how to engage with other cultures effectively or understand bias.

There is so much implicit bias in classrooms. I am white and more than once I’ve watched teachers hand FARMS applications to Black and Latino parents and not to me at BTSN or Open House. That’s just a small example.

Based on data MCPS publishes: 74% of county Hispanic students receive free lunch, and 62% of African American students. Less than 5% of white families do. I wouldn’t call your anecdote implicit bias.

[Anonymous]

Can't change how people with a training. There are whites who don't know how they sound and come across to others. Female white staff (and those who are jwish but have white pale complexion) thinking anyone who is not white is "frustrated". Not everyone is frustrated but are simply asking questions to get clarifications. Maybe the female white staff are the ones who are frustrated.

[Anonymous]

*how people think with a ...

[Anonymous]

The most racist person I’ve ever met is a black assistant principal in Mcps. No training could change that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

Hiring is moving along at a normal pace. There are 3 teachers at my school who were hired this month, they got their prints and screening done on time and have been at work all week.

We had three teachers hired in July who got their clearance to enter our school on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday respectively. Some other teachers hired in July or early August still are not cleared to begin this Monday.

What are you yelling about?

[Anonymous]

So if teachers who did their masters along side mcps teachers are not trained good enough to be teachers despite getting top grades in Maryland universities in education and technical content areas, what makes a beurocrat so desirable as a teacher. If teachers who studied teaching are not good enough to be teachers why would someone who did not get trained or volunteer thousands of hours be better. I am confused by the logic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, the Fed to Ed program is taking away positions from teachers who are actually certified. Meanwhile, some person from the IRS has conditional certification...ridiculous.

Explain how if there were excess openings that exceeded the # of certified teachers who were interested in applying?

Well they aren’t hiring people who are certified and more than qualified. I have two friends who were trying to move to McPs bc of the shit in DC and got zero calls this summer. No interview invites, just straight rejection emails. These are both teachers rated highly effective in DCPS and have 10 years experience. I’ve heard similiar on the MCPS teacher fb group.

I heard that from a qualified teacher who applied to MCPS too. They should at least be able to respond with a rejection, but it's bizarre because there are openings (our school is looking for an ES teacher).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...

You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.

It just seems like a luxury, and they should focus on the basics (paying employees on time, background checks) first. MCPS is 75.6% non-white students, so it's not like the groups you cited are marginalized. Latinos for example are the largest group at MCPS, at 34.6%.

And we still have a majority white female workforce who don’t all know how to engage with other cultures effectively or understand bias.

There is so much implicit bias in classrooms. I am white and more than once I’ve watched teachers hand FARMS applications to Black and Latino parents and not to me at BTSN or Open House. That’s just a small example.

Based on data MCPS publishes: 74% of county Hispanic students receive free lunch, and 62% of African American students. Less than 5% of white families do. I wouldn’t call your anecdote implicit bias.

How about taking an objective approach by offering the FARMs application to all so as not to offend anyone? Would the 95% be offended if it was offered?

[Anonymous]

They are STILL VERY behind on hiring. Students need teachers in the classrooms, not subs. They need stability. You'd think HR's main concern would be pushing new hires through as fast as they can. SMH

[Anonymous]

I heard that HR is severely understaffed and untrained. They are not able to perform the basic functions of the job. You literally cannot get ahold of anyone unless you are willing to wait over an hour on the phone.