Teachers not returning. MCPS to hire “Monitors” instead

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why the teachers can’t all just get vaccinated and go back to the classrooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

It absolutely does have to do with race. And you know it. This looks really bad. MCPS should be ashamed. Sending poor minorities in to do the job of mostly white well to do teachers. Because the teachers are too special to return like all of the other teachers are doing across the country. Embarrassing and shameful!

By the way, op, the majority of students in MCPS is not white upper middle class. You so desperately want to victimize others without any legitimate evidence. This has NOTHING to do with race. You are nuts.

[Anonymous]

This is a weird assumption. I'm not in MCPS. 95% of our teachers came back. We also hired monitors on a short term basis, in person, with no benefits. By and large, these are white, middle class young adults who couldn't go to college in person because of covid, and who have time and interest in making extra money while they're home. Many still qualify for benefits under their parents! They are healthy and working side by side people like me, a white middle aged person who is teaching in person. They do things like remind kids to pull up their masks, help with dismissal, etc. OP, you really need to take a deep breath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the teachers can’t all just get vaccinated and go back to the classrooms?

They can, and the community knows it. That's why the emerging argument is that children must be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

$15 may not be a lot to you OP but it’s more than a lot of retail workers and others make per hour. It’s a temp job until
June so would not have benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the teachers can’t all just get vaccinated and go back to the classrooms?

They can, and the community knows it. That's why the emerging argument is that children must be vaccinated.

Have you noticed that the vaccine is in short supply? And that many people are currently eligible? But wait, you are probably also one of the people screaming that it’s not fair that teachers are included in the 1B group for eligibility.

[Anonymous]

OP, in my kids middle school, only 300 out of 1000 kids are going back to the building. Teachers still need to teach majority of the kids virtually plus those in the building. The only way to do this effectively is to have monitors helping in the classroom. Can you think of another way to do this better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the teachers can’t all just get vaccinated and go back to the classrooms?

They can, and the community knows it. That's why the emerging argument is that children must be vaccinated.

Have you noticed that the vaccine is in short supply? And that many people are currently eligible? But wait, you are probably also one of the people screaming that it’s not fair that teachers are included in the 1B group for eligibility.

Teacher vaccinations are steadily ramping. Teachers that are vaccinated should be encouraged/allowed back in the classroom. If I were to ever to scream about eligibility, it would have been to the effect that teachers should have been in Group 1A. However, some of the sentiment here is that the vaccines are an inconvenient development for that subset of teachers and parents that like how things are now.

[Anonymous]

Whether minorities or not, they are most likely to be people in need of a 15 per hour job during a recession and who do not have the protection of a union to let them work at home. The message it sends it that it’s safe for these monitors and students but not teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you socially distance 30 kids un one class? You fo t. You solit into two or more. So 1/2 will do dl ftom another classroom since they cant afford to hire double the teachers.

You could acknowledge that social distancing in a classroom for 6 hours is pandemic theater and completely pointless.

[Anonymous]

Not if they have both, which they will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

It absolutely does have to do with race. And you know it. This looks really bad. MCPS should be ashamed. Sending poor minorities in to do the job of mostly white well to do teachers. Because the teachers are too special to return like all of the other teachers are doing across the country. Embarrassing and shameful!

This is weird. Do you think MCPS is luring non-whites in to take these monitor jobs? No one has to apply for a job that they know 100% is an in-person position right now. It’s one thing to say it’s unfair that a person who works at Walmart has to keep working as an essential worker but it’s another to get upset that a non who’re person chooses to apply to a job that is specifically created to be in person during the pandemic. ???

Right, everyone’s job is a completely free choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

Right. But that’s why some schools are going hybrid— so half the class can come in the AM and the other half in the PM. Or, half can come on M/Tu and the other half on Th/F. No need for monitors.

Wrong. The plan for hybrid only works with monitors. Too many teachers filed ADA exemptions that must be honored.

Ugh. This is why people are so unhappy with teachers right now.

Because they have disabilities? That’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

Right. But that’s why some schools are going hybrid— so half the class can come in the AM and the other half in the PM. Or, half can come on M/Tu and the other half on Th/F. No need for monitors.

Wrong. The plan for hybrid only works with monitors. Too many teachers filed ADA exemptions that must be honored.

Ugh. This is why people are so unhappy with teachers right now.

Because they have disabilities? That’s ridiculous.

Hopefully they'll re-assess ADAs over the summer in light of vaccinations. In most respects, having access to a vaccine should be considered a reasonable accommodation.

[Anonymous]

Every teacher I work with is happy to go back after we get both shots. There will still be a minority with accepted ADA accommodations. These monitors aren't just being hired for those teachers. They still need them to cover classes that have too many students opting to come to school. The alternative is a hybrid setup.