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The PD video teachers must watch on Monday
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Anonymous
Exactly. |
Anonymous
| Sorry, but she equated a picture of a black man drinking at a white fountain (in my opinion, that is GOOD trouble) with troublemaking kids. I'm sorry but I'm not going to compare a student who was too lazy to do a tennis lesson in PE and stormed out calling me names, while breaking a racquet to Rosa Parks. |
Anonymous
LMAO thank you! I was shaking my head when she pulled that ridiculous example. |
Anonymous
That one made me laugh too! |
Anonymous
This was where she lost me. Intentional and strategic civil disobedience is not the same thing as students getting into fist fights during soccer at recess. And if somebody thinks that they ARE the same, then they’ve missed the point completely. Making a comparison like that is insulting and out of touch. I also did not like the dialogue that if we truly cared about our students we would be advocating for political changes that would benefit our students in addition to teaching, which would have to occur off the clock. The implication is that if we are not spending our off the clock time to advocate for our students, then we must not care for our students. It was a weird attempt to guilt trip teachers into doing even more. |
Anonymous
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She also indirectly advocates for asymptomatic students to go back to wearing MASKS at the 40 minute mark. She wants teachers to put kids in a circle and talk about the common good, share the immunity vulnerabilities in each of their households, and consider wearing masks as an act of protection and care for one another to show accountability.
This woman feels that telling kids to be quiet is too controlling but at the same time feels that covering their faces is an act of collective care. |
Anonymous
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How much money did MCPS pay for this ‘professional development’?
Correction: How much did Montgomery County taxpayers pay for this? |
Anonymous
Indeed. The contradictions would have been amusing if she and her ilk weren't deadset, and arguably successful, in us taking their crappy logic seriously. |
Anonymous
| Teachers/administrators on this thread - would someone please post the slides they were used at today’s work shop generally which covered more topics? Parents have a right to know how MCPS is training teachers to interact with their children. |
Anonymous
+1 My child has been severely bullied by 'troublemakers'. I want to know how they will keep victims (current and future) of these lax policies safe. |
Anonymous
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I didn’t think the video was awful except for the useless examples, but it is clearly targeted at elementary schools. It does nothing to help older grades, and as others have said it seems offensive in it’s disregard for the major situations teachers (and admin) feel powerless to deal with at the moment.
Later in the day I had a thoughtful personal conversation with a neighboring staff member about the problems her son was experiencing as a young man of color and her fears for him since he was born a black man in the U.S. That was far more beneficial to me than MCPS crap. |
Anonymous
You agree with the presenter's idea that all punishment is "perverse" and that accountability and punishment are "incompatible"? |
Anonymous
| MCPS teachers/administrators, would someone post the slides from today’s training here? The training as part of the “audit” was broader than the video segment. Parents have a right to know how public school teachers are being trained to interact with/teach their children. Thanks you. |
Anonymous
I looked up Carla Shalaby from the video and not a surprise, but she doesn’t seem to have any actual public school classroom teaching experience listed on her linked in. Maybe she taught for a couple years back in the early 2000s right out of college? https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-shalaby-9277948b |
Anonymous
| So MCPS teachers- how bad was it? |