Teachers not returning. MCPS to hire “Monitors” instead

[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 with some of the students and the monitor in the other classroom with the remaining students
2. The monitors are being paid minimum wage and the recruitment seems to be targeting anyone who needs a job, likes being around children, and those reliable
3. Both MCPS teachers and underpaid monitors will be in school buildings except for some teachers that have requested and qualify for ADA accommodations

Fixed it, you left out some important content

[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.

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

Where have you been? There has been hysteria this entire school year. And it starts and ends with the Union and their “you’re trying to kill us by sending us back into classrooms to do our jobs” hysteria while being ok with low wage workers picking up their slack without offering them healthcare coverage or a decent living wage for such a “dangerous” (sarcasm) job.

You are being called out by parents sick of you sacrificing their kids educations and lives for a better Union contract. This is all political. Start to finish. Thousands of school Systems have it figured out and have been back in school fir months. The only thing standing in the way of our kids going back to school is not Covid but is MCPS, MoCo and the Union all being in bed together. It is disgusting.

Obviously Union stooges have found this thread and are running damage control.

[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 with some of the students and the monitor in the other classroom with the remaining students
2. The monitors are being paid minimum wage and the recruitment seems to be targeting anyone who needs a job, likes being around children, and those reliable
3. Both MCPS teachers and underpaid monitors will be in school buildings except for some teachers that have requested and qualify for ADA accommodations

Fixed it, you left out some important content

No looks like you left out a lot of important and relevant details about his elitist the whole scam is. Have you no shame? How much are you being paid to sit home and run PR? A teacher’s salary at least. Are you doing this on your hour and a half lunch break?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
No looks like you left out a lot of important and relevant details about his elitist the whole scam is. Have you no shame? How much are you being paid to sit home and run PR? A teacher’s salary at least. Are you doing this on your hour and a half lunch break?

When you use the word "elitist," what specifically do you mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Communication is important, but I think that both BoE and MCPS have more important tasks than monitoring rumors and correcting misinformation on an anonymous internet message board. That goes for MCEA, too.

It's easy to forget, but the fact is that DCUM is not real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Communication is important, but I think that both BoE and MCPS have more important tasks than monitoring rumors and correcting misinformation on an anonymous internet message board. That goes for MCEA, too.

It's easy to forget, but the fact is that DCUM is not real life.

Wrong. Real life isn’t full of the privilege with which MCEA, the BOE and been conducting themselves at the expense of struggling families and students across the county. Your use of “MCEA” just gave you away as a stooge. Only stooges use MCEA instead of Union. Most parents don’t know our teachers Union is the MCEA.

Nice shot at damage control. And yes, this message board does matter. Members of the media monitor it for story ideas and news content. In a way, DCUM is very useful. I am not wasting my time by being here to point out the obvious discrepancies and hypocrisies of MCEA, BOE and MCPS. This is for members of the media to dig deeper on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Communication is important, but I think that both BoE and MCPS have more important tasks than monitoring rumors and correcting misinformation on an anonymous internet message board. That goes for MCEA, too.

It's easy to forget, but the fact is that DCUM is not real life.

It's not just DCUM where people are speculating about these things, trust me.

All it would take is a brief press release from the BOE/MCPS. It's not monitoring rumors, it's being transparent. If they don't have someone who can take the, what, ten minutes it would take to draft something like this, then I don't know what to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Communication is important, but I think that both BoE and MCPS have more important tasks than monitoring rumors and correcting misinformation on an anonymous internet message board. That goes for MCEA, too.

It's easy to forget, but the fact is that DCUM is not real life.

Wrong. Real life isn’t full of the privilege with which MCEA, the BOE and been conducting themselves at the expense of struggling families and students across the county. Your use of “MCEA” just gave you away as a stooge. Only stooges use MCEA instead of Union. Most parents don’t know our teachers Union is the MCEA.

Nice shot at damage control. And yes, this message board does matter. Members of the media monitor it for story ideas and news content. In a way, DCUM is very useful. I am not wasting my time by being here to point out the obvious discrepancies and hypocrisies of MCEA, BOE and MCPS. This is for members of the media to dig deeper on.

DP. You are making the average parent sound like a right-wing ignoramus triggered by the word “Union”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Pretty much! Black and Latinx parents are publicly calling out Lightfoot and CPS for locking their kids’ teachers out of Google Classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Communication is important, but I think that both BoE and MCPS have more important tasks than monitoring rumors and correcting misinformation on an anonymous internet message board. That goes for MCEA, too.

It's easy to forget, but the fact is that DCUM is not real life.

Wrong. Real life isn’t full of the privilege with which MCEA, the BOE and been conducting themselves at the expense of struggling families and students across the county. Your use of “MCEA” just gave you away as a stooge. Only stooges use MCEA instead of Union. Most parents don’t know our teachers Union is the MCEA.

Nice shot at damage control. And yes, this message board does matter. Members of the media monitor it for story ideas and news content. In a way, DCUM is very useful. I am not wasting my time by being here to point out the obvious discrepancies and hypocrisies of MCEA, BOE and MCPS. This is for members of the media to dig deeper on.

DP. You are making the average parent sound like a right-wing ignoramus triggered by the word “Union”.

Not what I was saying at all. My point is that most parents in this forum or across the county do not know that MCEA is the Union so they use the word Union instead. And even the most die hard liberals in this county are sick of the teachers Union. I am in a friend groups of very far left leaning parents. Most are disgusted with the Union and like me were once huge Union supporters. I voted for every Union endorsed candidate in the past to support my teacher friends. Covid is the great unveiling that the Union does not give a rats $($ about children, they are out for themselves.

Never again supporting an Apple Ballot candidate. The divide is clear. And this stunt with using underpaid undereducated monitors without healthcare as stand ins for teachers no matter the semantics is the icing on the cake. Stooping about as low as it gets.

[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.

It’s the DCUM way!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is of course a group of teachers that are at higher risk due to underlying health conditions, and I fully support those teachers continuing to teacher remotely and a monitor "managing" those in person classrooms while students in the class and at home zoom the lesson. However, that is not the majority of teachers. Once MCPS returns to in person school (so cdc safety measures are in place like masking and distance), the majority of teachers should be in person in their classrooms 5 days a week, and the students who elected to stay full remote plus the portions of the in person cohorts that are learning at home on any given day should zoom into the lesson. This isn't that complicated and school systems all across the country have been implementing it since September.

Our teachers are coming back, regardless of the kind of in-person learning they're doing. Our ES doesn't have the technology to do that kind of concurrent learning (especially since it would require the teacher to stand in one spot the whole time to stay on camera). We can't fit all the kids who are coming back into one classroom because our building is small, and they are prioritizing keeping kids with their teachers. So you tell me how that can work.

Um, the teacher stands at the front of the room, camera on - if the teacher moves in the room, s/he takes laptop with them - the teacher periodically monitors the chat function on zoom. Seriously there are schools all over that have been implementing hybrid learning this way - there is no special technology required beyond a zoom account!

THANK YOU!! My sister is doing this right now and it works. Is it a bit tough the first week or so, yes? But she has it down to a science now and says it works great. And if you miss school because you are sick, you can log in at home. If you miss the class, guess what? You miss it just like a normal day of school. No big deal.

This is happening everywhere, will start to happen here soon, and this whole thread is a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Exploiting cheap labor? That's about what new paras make. If you want to get all paras a pay raise, I'm all for it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Communication is important, but I think that both BoE and MCPS have more important tasks than monitoring rumors and correcting misinformation on an anonymous internet message board. That goes for MCEA, too.

It's easy to forget, but the fact is that DCUM is not real life.

Wrong. Real life isn’t full of the privilege with which MCEA, the BOE and been conducting themselves at the expense of struggling families and students across the county. Your use of “MCEA” just gave you away as a stooge. Only stooges use MCEA instead of Union. Most parents don’t know our teachers Union is the MCEA.

Nice shot at damage control. And yes, this message board does matter. Members of the media monitor it for story ideas and news content. In a way, DCUM is very useful. I am not wasting my time by being here to point out the obvious discrepancies and hypocrisies of MCEA, BOE and MCPS. This is for members of the media to dig deeper on.

DP. You are making the average parent sound like a right-wing ignoramus triggered by the word “Union”.

Not what I was saying at all. My point is that most parents in this forum or across the county do not know that MCEA is the Union so they use the word Union instead. And even the most die hard liberals in this county are sick of the teachers Union. I am in a friend groups of very far left leaning parents. Most are disgusted with the Union and like me were once huge Union supporters. I voted for every Union endorsed candidate in the past to support my teacher friends. Covid is the great unveiling that the Union does not give a rats $($ about children, they are out for themselves.

Never again supporting an Apple Ballot candidate. The divide is clear. And this stunt with using underpaid undereducated monitors without healthcare as stand ins for teachers no matter the semantics is the icing on the cake. Stooping about as low as it gets.

I don’t believe you that your friend group of far left leaning parents is now anti-teachers’ union. People who are pro-union understand that weakening one union threatens them all. In many countries, the far right has targeted teachers’ unions first in their campaign to bust unions nationally and eliminate collective bargaining for all workers. You are unwilling to support the right of teachers to have a safe working environment on the grounds that other workers have not had safe working environments for a year? Yeah, that is NOT a left wing perspective on the problem. You are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Communication is important, but I think that both BoE and MCPS have more important tasks than monitoring rumors and correcting misinformation on an anonymous internet message board. That goes for MCEA, too.

It's easy to forget, but the fact is that DCUM is not real life.

Wrong. Real life isn’t full of the privilege with which MCEA, the BOE and been conducting themselves at the expense of struggling families and students across the county. Your use of “MCEA” just gave you away as a stooge. Only stooges use MCEA instead of Union. Most parents don’t know our teachers Union is the MCEA.

Nice shot at damage control. And yes, this message board does matter. Members of the media monitor it for story ideas and news content. In a way, DCUM is very useful. I am not wasting my time by being here to point out the obvious discrepancies and hypocrisies of MCEA, BOE and MCPS. This is for members of the media to dig deeper on.

DP. You are making the average parent sound like a right-wing ignoramus triggered by the word “Union”.

Not what I was saying at all. My point is that most parents in this forum or across the county do not know that MCEA is the Union so they use the word Union instead. And even the most die hard liberals in this county are sick of the teachers Union. I am in a friend groups of very far left leaning parents. Most are disgusted with the Union and like me were once huge Union supporters. I voted for every Union endorsed candidate in the past to support my teacher friends. Covid is the great unveiling that the Union does not give a rats $($ about children, they are out for themselves.

Never again supporting an Apple Ballot candidate. The divide is clear. And this stunt with using underpaid undereducated monitors without healthcare as stand ins for teachers no matter the semantics is the icing on the cake. Stooping about as low as it gets.

Maybe NoVa parents are more engaged than MCPS ones because the NoVa parents all seem to know the name FEA.