Teachers not returning. MCPS to hire “Monitors” instead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is unbelievable and revolting. MCPS has a job posting for monitors for in person teaching. So a monitor (probably a poor minority) will make minimum wage to babysit kids in classrooms so that teachers (mostly upper middle class white people) can work from home virtually. Better yet MCPS isn’t giving these monitors benefits (no health insurance) while teachers (with the best insurance a union can negotiate) sit in the “safety” of their homes. So the monitors assume all of the (minimal according to studies and the CDC) risk of being exposed to Covid so teachers can have zero. MCPS is only requiring a GED for the job. They aren’t even paying the monitors as much as they would a substitute!

This smacks of privilege! Whose idea was this? I can not believe MCPS is doing this. The optics are horrible. Why is a teacher’s life more important than a monitor’s life? And the teachers are getting vaccines while these frontline monitor workers are not! I am appalled!

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/now-hiring-in-school-classroom-monitors/?fbclid=IwAR1xMDbRTNUi2TrlI66IcUU4Z9X_VRhQJ4FXXTHUKDu3ajTs9imYv5y0iSI

Yes, this is how it is in my town. Bizarro World.

Looks like Montgomery County Public School teachers are elite racists. Incredulous. What exactly are they teaching the kids with their behavior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is unbelievable and revolting. MCPS has a job posting for monitors for in person teaching. So a monitor (probably a poor minority) will make minimum wage to babysit kids in classrooms so that teachers (mostly upper middle class white people) can work from home virtually. Better yet MCPS isn’t giving these monitors benefits (no health insurance) while teachers (with the best insurance a union can negotiate) sit in the “safety” of their homes. So the monitors assume all of the (minimal according to studies and the CDC) risk of being exposed to Covid so teachers can have zero. MCPS is only requiring a GED for the job. They aren’t even paying the monitors as much as they would a substitute!

This smacks of privilege! Whose idea was this? I can not believe MCPS is doing this. The optics are horrible. Why is a teacher’s life more important than a monitor’s life? And the teachers are getting vaccines while these frontline monitor workers are not! I am appalled!

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/now-hiring-in-school-classroom-monitors/?fbclid=IwAR1xMDbRTNUi2TrlI66IcUU4Z9X_VRhQJ4FXXTHUKDu3ajTs9imYv5y0iSI

Click on the link, people, because not only is the photo of the $15/hr “monitor” a woman, it’s a black woman! Because who else knows how to survive in this area on that kind of income??? Forget about any basic benefits like health insurance.

Who exactly approves these ludicrous teacher union demands? “Woke” Montgomery County Public School teachers have exposed their REAL colors.

SHAME on Montgomery County!

THIS!!! How did this thread get so off track? The optics of this are horrifying. The Teachers Union looks about as racist and elitist as humanly possible right now. The teachers think they are too good and too important to go into classrooms and do their well paid jobs but it is ok to send a minimum wage struggling (most likely minority) monitor with minimal to no education in to expose themselves to Covid. So it’s too dangerous for precious teachers but fine for low wage workers to be at risk without even offering health insurance?

And don’t say this isn’t happening because it is. There are teachers already informing students they will be home for health reasons when they return but assuring the parents there will be monitors i. The class while they are online. (Never mind the disgusting fact that their have been low wage monitors in school classroom in “pods” for MCPS profit this entire tone while kids suffer at home)

The whole thing makes a mockery of the word “equity” and is the very essence of racism. MCPS and the Union have zero self awareness. Hypocrites.

+ 1,000,000

[Anonymous]

This thread is insane.

Not ONCE has the board indicated that all teachers would stay home and only monitors be sent into the classroom.

Not ONCE has the teacher’s union explicitly communicated such a demand directly to the board.

Not ONCE has the board suggested any teacher would teach from home other than those who are given an ADA exemption.

There’s so much outrage here over something that’s completely untrue. The only “optics” here are the ones the OP created with the outright lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane.

Not ONCE has the board indicated that all teachers would stay home and only monitors be sent into the classroom.

Not ONCE has the teacher’s union explicitly communicated such a demand directly to the board.

Not ONCE has the board suggested any teacher would teach from home other than those who are given an ADA exemption.

There’s so much outrage here over something that’s completely untrue. The only “optics” here are the ones the OP created with the outright lie.

I don't disagree with you, but the BOE could clear things up by saying what you just said, instead of saying nothing. Their (continued) silence, coupled with all these job postings, and the fact that many parents are understandably unwilling to give them the benefit of the doubt, are driving the posts you consider "insane."

Parents have a right to wonder about the role of monitors, who sound like they will have little to no classroom experience, let alone time for a background check. It's also not unreasonable, at this point, to suspect that the BOE doesn't have our kids' best interests in mind.

[Anonymous]

So to review:
1. MCPS is hiring monitors so they can split kids up into different classrooms to maintain social distancing, with the teacher in one classroom and the monitor in the other classroom
2. The monitors are being paid minimum wage and the recruitment seems to be targeting Black women.
3. Both MCPS teachers and underpaid monitors will be in school buildings except for teachers that have requested and qualify for ADA accommodations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane.

Not ONCE has the board indicated that all teachers would stay home and only monitors be sent into the classroom.

Not ONCE has the teacher’s union explicitly communicated such a demand directly to the board.

Not ONCE has the board suggested any teacher would teach from home other than those who are given an ADA exemption.

There’s so much outrage here over something that’s completely untrue. The only “optics” here are the ones the OP created with the outright lie.

How is it a lie? Did you even look at MCPS’s own ad? In what way?

They aren’t hiring monitors? The monitors will make $15.78 an hour? That barely minimum wage in MoCo attracts mainly minority & struggling workers? The monitors get no benefits like health insurance despite working in era of Covid? That the monitors will be filling in for remote teachers and monitoring classrooms of students with no educational experience and the only requirement is a GED? That the Teacher’s Union in fighting tooth and nail and has been since September to not return to the classrooms? That the Teacher’s Union claims it is unsafe fir teachers to return despite the fact that monitors have been in the school building for months making peanuts while babysitting for profit pods for companies like KAH? That only students who could afford the price of a pod were allowed back in school buildings? Which part is a lie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So to review:
1. MCPS is hiring monitors so they can split kids up into different classrooms to maintain social distancing, with the teacher in one classroom and the monitor in the other classroom
2. The monitors are being paid minimum wage and the recruitment seems to be targeting Black women.
3. Both MCPS teachers and underpaid monitors will be in school buildings except for teachers that have requested and qualify for ADA accommodations

How about MCPD streamline the process and have the teachers not returning do DL online with the kids not returning? Which according to DCUM Covid DL forever crowd is every family because only the crazy and rich want their kids to return. So this should cut the number of students who want to return in half. DL teachers with DL students. Less students in the buildings, pair young healthy teachers with cohorts. It’s not that hard. There are models on how to do this happening all over the country and they’ve been doing it since August.

MCPS students are currently in the bottom 25% of kids in the nation not returning.

MCPS’s goal is to make the return to building so unappealing for families in hopes they won’t return, while exploiting a struggling segment of our population for cheap labor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So to review:
1. MCPS is hiring monitors so they can split kids up into different classrooms to maintain social distancing, with the teacher in one classroom and the monitor in the other classroom
2. The monitors are being paid minimum wage and the recruitment seems to be targeting Black women.
3. Both MCPS teachers and underpaid monitors will be in school buildings except for teachers that have requested and qualify for ADA accommodations

How about MCPD streamline the process and have the teachers not returning do DL online with the kids not returning? Which according to DCUM Covid DL forever crowd is every family because only the crazy and rich want their kids to return. So this should cut the number of students who want to return in half. DL teachers with DL students. Less students in the buildings, pair young healthy teachers with cohorts. It’s not that hard. There are models on how to do this happening all over the country and they’ve been doing it since August.

MCPS students are currently in the bottom 25% of kids in the nation not returning.

MCPS’s goal is to make the return to building so unappealing for families in hopes they won’t return, while exploiting a struggling segment of our population for cheap labor.

Because it doesn’t always match up that way. If all the English teachers in 8th grade are teaching in-person, who teaches the DL section?

[Anonymous]

No school = No paycheck
would fix things mighty quickly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So to review:
1. MCPS is hiring monitors so they can split kids up into different classrooms to maintain social distancing, with the teacher in one classroom and the monitor in the other classroom
2. The monitors are being paid minimum wage and the recruitment seems to be targeting Black women.
3. Both MCPS teachers and underpaid monitors will be in school buildings except for teachers that have requested and qualify for ADA accommodations

How about MCPD streamline the process and have the teachers not returning do DL online with the kids not returning? Which according to DCUM Covid DL forever crowd is every family because only the crazy and rich want their kids to return. So this should cut the number of students who want to return in half. DL teachers with DL students. Less students in the buildings, pair young healthy teachers with cohorts. It’s not that hard. There are models on how to do this happening all over the country and they’ve been doing it since August.

MCPS students are currently in the bottom 25% of kids in the nation not returning.

MCPS’s goal is to make the return to building so unappealing for families in hopes they won’t return, while exploiting a struggling segment of our population for cheap labor.

Because it doesn’t always match up that way. If all the English teachers in 8th grade are teaching in-person, who teaches the DL section?

Thousands of other school districts have figured it out without exploiting cheap labor while simultaneously claiming the classrooms are unsafe.
MCPS has had over a year to figure it out while entire states have had full time school
Since August. Further proof MCPS and the Union had no intentions on going back this year at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane.

Not ONCE has the board indicated that all teachers would stay home and only monitors be sent into the classroom.

Not ONCE has the teacher’s union explicitly communicated such a demand directly to the board.

Not ONCE has the board suggested any teacher would teach from home other than those who are given an ADA exemption.

There’s so much outrage here over something that’s completely untrue. The only “optics” here are the ones the OP created with the outright lie.

I don't disagree with you, but the BOE could clear things up by saying what you just said, instead of saying nothing. Their (continued) silence, coupled with all these job postings, and the fact that many parents are understandably unwilling to give them the benefit of the doubt, are driving the posts you consider "insane."

Parents have a right to wonder about the role of monitors, who sound like they will have little to no classroom experience, let alone time for a background check. It's also not unreasonable, at this point, to suspect that the BOE doesn't have our kids' best interests in mind.

Wondering about the role of monitors is one thing. Widely speculating is another thing all together. Indicating that they are targeting a specific segment of the population for the role is crazy. Anyone can apply for the job(i.e. College students, SAHP trying to re-enter the workforce, individuals who have lost jobs because of COVID and need money, etc.). The BOE, Superintendent l, and school principals have all made clear that return to school will not look like normal school. They’ve been clear that each school will get some flexibility to make plans that are best for it’s community and numbers. And yet folks on here are running around like Chicken Little screaming about every little part of the plans. Frankly, as a parent I’m more sick of ya’ll madness thinking you can have it all. If you want your kid in school either accept you’re on board with whatever the plans may be or stay home in DL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No school = No paycheck
would fix things mighty quickly!

Or we’d end up looking like the Chicago Public School system does right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No school = No paycheck
would fix things mighty quickly!

Yep. Sick of MCPS and the Union. Let’s call them out on their blatantly obvious racism, elitism and hipocrisy. They’ve used children as political pawns in their power struggle long enough. A movement in the county for school choice is warranted. Poor and minority Kids shouldn’t be stuck in schools with teachers who refuse to teach in person for a whole year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane.

Not ONCE has the board indicated that all teachers would stay home and only monitors be sent into the classroom.

Not ONCE has the teacher’s union explicitly communicated such a demand directly to the board.

Not ONCE has the board suggested any teacher would teach from home other than those who are given an ADA exemption.

There’s so much outrage here over something that’s completely untrue. The only “optics” here are the ones the OP created with the outright lie.

I don't disagree with you, but the BOE could clear things up by saying what you just said, instead of saying nothing. Their (continued) silence, coupled with all these job postings, and the fact that many parents are understandably unwilling to give them the benefit of the doubt, are driving the posts you consider "insane."

Parents have a right to wonder about the role of monitors, who sound like they will have little to no classroom experience, let alone time for a background check. It's also not unreasonable, at this point, to suspect that the BOE doesn't have our kids' best interests in mind.

Wondering about the role of monitors is one thing. Widely speculating is another thing all together. Indicating that they are targeting a specific segment of the population for the role is crazy. Anyone can apply for the job(i.e. College students, SAHP trying to re-enter the workforce, individuals who have lost jobs because of COVID and need money, etc.). The BOE, Superintendent l, and school principals have all made clear that return to school will not look like normal school. They’ve been clear that each school will get some flexibility to make plans that are best for it’s community and numbers. And yet folks on here are running around like Chicken Little screaming about every little part of the plans. Frankly, as a parent I’m more sick of ya’ll madness thinking you can have it all. If you want your kid in school either accept you’re on board with whatever the plans may be or stay home in DL.

Why do you sound like the union elite? Consider the kids for a change!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane.

Not ONCE has the board indicated that all teachers would stay home and only monitors be sent into the classroom.

Not ONCE has the teacher’s union explicitly communicated such a demand directly to the board.

Not ONCE has the board suggested any teacher would teach from home other than those who are given an ADA exemption.

There’s so much outrage here over something that’s completely untrue. The only “optics” here are the ones the OP created with the outright lie.

This!! OP, stop creating hysteria where there is none.