MCPS teachers--what kind of abuse from students goes on in your building?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have a great rubber room job teacher bashing. Seriously, you hear teachers letting out very hard truths and the only support you can give is to bash teachers. This sounds like the MCPS rubber room. When principals get in trouble they don't get fired like teacher(who don't even do wrong most of the time)they get promoted to be hacks on teachers. Cases keep coming out of principals who endanger lives and get promoted.

+1 example: Damascus. That principal should have been fired and gone to jail for failing to report a crime. Jack Smith should not have had his contract renewed for thos event as well and for allowing that principal to transfer to the Central office.

[Anonymous]

I hope mcps will address this problem. Which BOE candidate will be the right one to hold the school accountable for all students. Equity for all. Every student has the right to learn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our Focus ES, we have had so many issues. Kids who start fights IN class. Right in front of the teacher. Kids throwing chairs and desks. Definitely kids who run out of the classroom.

Admin is terrible and there are zero meaningful consequences. Just a useless focus on PBIS. And more conferences on how to implement PBIS properly.

We had a 4th grader last year who was acting out constantly. One of the young teachers (well-meaning) asked the other students in the class to actually write a note to this kid because he obviously wasn’t ‘feeling well’.

As a mom with two young teen girls, I was horrified. Are they trying to teach the girls in that class that when your spouse acts out or acts violently, the appropriate response is to make sure he’s feeling okay?

Again, parents who know this abuse goes on bed to rally other parents, document, and push up the chain. Get the Dads involved. If anyone is injured - physically or emotionally - you have reason to demand these kids be removed. There are many kids entering the system who have experienced trauma - they are not magically going to act like well adjusted MCPS students. They need deeper interventions with psychologists and educators before being put in regular classrooms.

Teacher here: parents should call the principal over and over again. I’ve reported sexual harassment and violence from students hundreds of times to admin but nothing gets done. One of my students was being sexually harassed by another student over and over again, but my reports to admin did NOTHING. This girl was in tears every day because she was being sexually harassed every single day by this student. After I had made multiple reports to different administrators about this without any change or consequences for the harasser, I recommended that my student have her parents call the principal until they had him on the phone.
Guess what? As soon as the parents got the principal on the phone and threatened to sue the school, the male student Harassing my female was removed From her classes.
Also it’s worth noting that the same student brought knives and a gun to school a month later and got suspended. It makes me so angry because I know that I and other teachers had raised issues with this student to admin ALL year long and they did nothing.

[Anonymous]

If we teachers report crimes of violence or behavior that ruins our lesson plans the admins will fire us instead of trying to fix the real problems. The only way to conduct a ourselves is to inflate the grades, don't report, and kiss admin butt. It really makes life hard and creates job insecurity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we teachers report crimes of violence or behavior that ruins our lesson plans the admins will fire us instead of trying to fix the real problems. The only way to conduct a ourselves is to inflate the grades, don't report, and kiss admin butt. It really makes life hard and creates job insecurity.

Grudge poster dragging a thread up from its grave again!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If we teachers report crimes of violence or behavior that ruins our lesson plans the admins will fire us instead of trying to fix the real problems. The only way to conduct a ourselves is to inflate the grades, don't report, and kiss admin butt. It really makes life hard and creates job insecurity.

Grudge poster dragging a thread up from its grave again!

You are so wrong. This is someone who is trying to teach but he/she can't because of dismal conditions in the schools. This is ongoing reality - it didn't stop in May!

[Anonymous]

Here's one thing that has helped me as a teacher in the past. Write a letter to the administrator, cc the superintendent, and the union president. Put specifics and numbers in the letter. Most importantly, make sure you use the verbage "I am afraid for my safety and or my students' safety". Then, this way, you have it in writing and can sue. I did this one year and got an immediate response from my district. Student got outplaced. Course, by that time most kids had lost a ton of instructional time and were behind, but at least they were safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's one thing that has helped me as a teacher in the past. Write a letter to the administrator, cc the superintendent, and the union president. Put specifics and numbers in the letter. Most importantly, make sure you use the verbage "I am afraid for my safety and or my students' safety". Then, this way, you have it in writing and can sue. I did this one year and got an immediate response from my district. Student got outplaced. Course, by that time most kids had lost a ton of instructional time and were behind, but at least they were safe.

You’re glad this worked for you.
For other red hers, the same tactic has been detrimental and caused them to be put on PAR.

[Anonymous]

I agree par is a tool to fire great teachers and is a reason for the union to disregard you.