What are the list of MCPS positions set to be laid off (assuming the budget cuts go through)?

[Anonymous]

I teach in MCPS. Please lord spare the social workers. Better to have bigger classes than lose them. The kids have such complex emotional needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in MCPS. Please lord spare the social workers. Better to have bigger classes than lose them. The kids have such complex emotional needs.

Nope. Unless County Council reverses course and decides to raise taxes after all, we lose the social workers, the media assistants, the college and career navigators, the pupil personnel workers and family engagement specialists, the special education resource teachers, the staff development teachers, and probably several hundred middle school classroom teachers as well.

It really, really sucks but it's true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach in MCPS. Please lord spare the social workers. Better to have bigger classes than lose them. The kids have such complex emotional needs.

Nope. Unless County Council reverses course and decides to raise taxes after all, we lose the social workers, the media assistants, the college and career navigators, the pupil personnel workers and family engagement specialists, the special education resource teachers, the staff development teachers, and probably several hundred middle school classroom teachers as well.

It really, really sucks but it's true.

But Taylor keeps his swag budget!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the biggest categories are:

- Media assistants
- College and career navigators
- Social workers
- English composition assistants
- Pupil personnel workers
- EML therapeutic counselors
- Family engagement specialists
- Special education resource teachers
- Staff development teachers
- And 220 middle school teachers

Total of 850 employees being laid
off

While school based parent specialists, who do minimal work, still have their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach in MCPS. Please lord spare the social workers. Better to have bigger classes than lose them. The kids have such complex emotional needs.

Nope. Unless County Council reverses course and decides to raise taxes after all, we lose the social workers, the media assistants, the college and career navigators, the pupil personnel workers and family engagement specialists, the special education resource teachers, the staff development teachers, and probably several hundred middle school classroom teachers as well.

It really, really sucks but it's true.

But Taylor keeps his swag budget!

Clearly, the BOE and Taylor don't care about optics. or how many people's jobs could be saved with that $700K SWAG budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach in MCPS. Please lord spare the social workers. Better to have bigger classes than lose them. The kids have such complex emotional needs.

Nope. Unless County Council reverses course and decides to raise taxes after all, we lose the social workers, the media assistants, the college and career navigators, the pupil personnel workers and family engagement specialists, the special education resource teachers, the staff development teachers, and probably several hundred middle school classroom teachers as well.

It really, really sucks but it's true.

But Taylor keeps his swag budget!

Taylor probably has more comms people to make his snow day videos than there are math curriculum specialists.

[Anonymous]

While I hate the idea of people losing jobs, I think special ed teachers and PPWs should be retained from this above list. Some of these positions, media assistants, CCNs, English Composition Assistants are helpful, but not crucial.

[Anonymous]

Aren't there 14 people in central office who manage the SSL program? Plus people in every MS and HS getting paid to input those stupid manual SSL volunteer forms when any HS kid could create a google form or some other digital means to submit the evidence in less than a day.

It's a poorly-run program for students to get credit for work they're already doing at school plus some affluent kids who get SSL hours for "volunteering" at the summer camp their parents paid for for a decade prior.

[Anonymous]

Please just fire every central office person who designs a professional development day that involves wasted time, overpaid speakers, the pet project of the week, and a day without school for the kids. Just let teachers go to professional conferences every few years instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't there 14 people in central office who manage the SSL program? Plus people in every MS and HS getting paid to input those stupid manual SSL volunteer forms when any HS kid could create a google form or some other digital means to submit the evidence in less than a day.

It's a poorly-run program for students to get credit for work they're already doing at school plus some affluent kids who get SSL hours for "volunteering" at the summer camp their parents paid for for a decade prior.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please just fire every central office person who designs a professional development day that involves wasted time, overpaid speakers, the pet project of the week, and a day without school for the kids. Just let teachers go to professional conferences every few years instead.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I hate the idea of people losing jobs, I think special ed teachers and PPWs should be retained from this above list. Some of these positions, media assistants, CCNs, English Composition Assistants are helpful, but not crucial.

Without CCNs and PPWs, expect HS counselors to be so flooded with work that your juniors and seniors will 100% be on their own when it comes to navigating the college and scholarship application process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I hate the idea of people losing jobs, I think special ed teachers and PPWs should be retained from this above list. Some of these positions, media assistants, CCNs, English Composition Assistants are helpful, but not crucial.

They are all important. The assistants help grade. Try grading 150 English assignments 1-3 times a week alone.

[Anonymous]

And comp assistants help students with their college essays. If these cuts go thru it will really be a disservice to our students!

[Anonymous]

I hate all of this. Do we know exactly what the middle school cuts are about? Or just vibing it’s related to the math minutes issue?