demoralized in MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point, teachers that are not able or willing to handle these types of situations should be more strategic in which schools they apply to. Typically whenever the FARMS rate goes over 25% we start to see a situation where teachers can get overwhelmed and are not able to give the students the attention they deserve. You end up with bad combinations of students in classrooms and no easy way to manage things. This results in an eventual drop in test scores. Teachers who are not interested in dealing with these situations should look to schools with FARMs rates below that 25% threshhold.

r

All of my friends teach in schools like the PP describes. She has more behavior issues than I do in a school that is around 85% FARMS. The students are rude and back talk. They lie and some of them steal. Their parents are pretty awful too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, teachers that are not able or willing to handle these types of situations should be more strategic in which schools they apply to. Typically whenever the FARMS rate goes over 25% we start to see a situation where teachers can get overwhelmed and are not able to give the students the attention they deserve. You end up with bad combinations of students in classrooms and no easy way to manage things. This results in an eventual drop in test scores. Teachers who are not interested in dealing with these situations should look to schools with FARMs rates below that 25% threshhold.

r

All of my friends teach in schools like the PP describes. She has more behavior issues than I do in a school that is around 85% FARMS. The students are rude and back talk. They lie and some of them steal. Their parents are pretty awful too.

PLEASE, for everybody's benefit including yours, find a different place to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course MCEA can intervene with your woes......by making sure your life is hell, firing you, and smearing your reputation. How's your morale now.

MCEA can’t fire teachers so that’s not an outcome of asking MCEA to intervene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, teachers that are not able or willing to handle these types of situations should be more strategic in which schools they apply to. Typically whenever the FARMS rate goes over 25% we start to see a situation where teachers can get overwhelmed and are not able to give the students the attention they deserve. You end up with bad combinations of students in classrooms and no easy way to manage things. This results in an eventual drop in test scores. Teachers who are not interested in dealing with these situations should look to schools with FARMs rates below that 25% threshhold.

r

All of my friends teach in schools like the PP describes. She has more behavior issues than I do in a school that is around 85% FARMS. The students are rude and back talk. They lie and some of them steal. Their parents are pretty awful too.

PLEASE, for everybody's benefit including yours, find a different place to work.

Maybe you can take her place! Best of luck to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disagree: my ES student has to vacate her classroom (sometimes several times per week) because of a violent student. This has been going in all year. Want to guess how many parenta in that classroom will request that Larlo NOT be in their chikd's classroom ever again?

My MS child had a shelter in place followed by a lockdown last week, because of threat to self harm, followed by a 7th grader making a joke about a gun that wasn't so funny.

BTW, my children have been in overcrowded schools since kindergarten, and will remain so through high school.

This is not normal, and not condusive to learning!,

This!

My oldest is in 5th grade and we have a kid who has a major outburst at least once a month. Runs out of the classroom. Yells at the teacher. Cursed at the teacher. Has thrown a trash can. Has hit another student in front of a teacher. Has thrown a chair. It’s out of control.

Parents are never notified. We hear about it from the kids (multiple kids, and the teachers have corroborated these stories). It is an awful learning environment.

Maybe the PP is living in some utopian neighborhood in MCPS that doesn’t face these challenges. But for the rest of us, this has been reality for our kids. We are at a Focus school, but I have even heard these types of stories from parents in wealthier clusters.

Once the student was hit, thee parents should have come out in force. See all the tips in this thread. Don’t stand for this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Simple. Every time my son complained about an out-of-control kid, I looked up the family’s address and found they lived in an apartment building that took Section 8 vouchers.

Complicated answer:

1. Everybody ought to take housing choice vouchers (unless you prefer for users of housing choice vouchers to be concentrated in high-poverty neighborhoods, and the whole point of housing choice vouchers was for this to NOT happen)
2. Living in a building where people use housing choice vouchers does not mean that your family uses a housing choice voucher
3. 7,144 housing choice vouchers IN THE WHOLE COUNTY.

Simpler answer: troll.

No. I could have gone on. And I lived in an apartment as a kid - there were plenty of rough kids then too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the person calling teachers trolls is probably actually a principal oor union director trying to gather Intel and deduce who whistle blowers are in order to retaliate. Everyone knows this system is corrupt from the rapes, to the gang fights, to the principals who want teachers to be hired and fired on a yearly basis if they actually try to do their jobs by trying to teach and improve the system.

This is so sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point, teachers that are not able or willing to handle these types of situations should be more strategic in which schools they apply to. Typically whenever the FARMS rate goes over 25% we start to see a situation where teachers can get overwhelmed and are not able to give the students the attention they deserve. You end up with bad combinations of students in classrooms and no easy way to manage things. This results in an eventual drop in test scores. Teachers who are not interested in dealing with these situations should look to schools with FARMs rates below that 25% threshhold.

lol

1. Are you an educator?
2. If you were, you'd KNOW that you just push a magic button each time you try transfer. Push low FARMs schools! And then poof! The screen lights up and you apply to 15 of them.

And if your answer to #1 is yes, then we're all in big trouble.

[Anonymous]

Black principals bully white teachers all day as if to say you think your students are bad I'm going after you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
In the case of the Damascus rape case, the parent was notified numerous times by MCPS teachers/staff regarding the child's behavioral issues. The student was basically passed around to a different school, along with the issues. Unfortunately, staff at the schools hands were tied.

I don't know the details of the Damascus rape case, but couldn't the student have been dismissed from the team (for low grades and/or behavioral issues)? If so, then I wouldn't say that the staff at the school's hands were tied.

Certainly not! He is black and there would be hell to pay. Dismissed for grades? The first quarter report cards had not come out yet so technically there were no grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Black principals bully white teachers all day as if to say you think your students are bad I'm going after you.

I've heard this again and again from my colleagues. White women in particular are targeted based on my experiences. These leaders "lead" using fear. Is it any wonder that so many transfer multiple times to find their happy spot? (which doesn't exist)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black principals bully white teachers all day as if to say you think your students are bad I'm going after you.

I've heard this again and again from my colleagues. White women in particular are targeted based on my experiences. These leaders "lead" using fear. Is it any wonder that so many transfer multiple times to find their happy spot? (which doesn't exist)

Most principals in MCPS aren’t black. If this is why you are transferring and you still can’t find a spot that is a good fit, you are not only a racist. You are also too dumb to realize your own racist theory isn’t serving you.

[Anonymous]

As a male Male MCPS employee I have worked with two male black principals. In have never experienced or heard of bullying. I have worked with five female black admin and again never experienced bullying. I am not sure where this board is getting its info from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black principals bully white teachers all day as if to say you think your students are bad I'm going after you.

I've heard this again and again from my colleagues. White women in particular are targeted based on my experiences. These leaders "lead" using fear. Is it any wonder that so many transfer multiple times to find their happy spot? (which doesn't exist)

Most principals in MCPS aren’t black. If this is why you are transferring and you still can’t find a spot that is a good fit, you are not only a racist. You are also too dumb to realize your own racist theory isn’t serving you.

not bothering with you much - but only to say that you can't read . . . as you clearly think I'm posting about my experiences

lol

I guess sharing stories from others makes me a racist. nice going, Einstein

[Anonymous]

Exactly, they were at Einstein HS