Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the better questions is why are our school counselors, librarians, and nurses being paid to do nothing at all right now.

As well as elementary art, music and PE teachers. They press a button to push out one lesson per week that’s been provided by MCPS in grade bands. K-2 lesson one week, 3-5 the next. No live instruction, no creating content, no troubleshooting tech for parents, no being expected to investigate with families why their kids aren’t logging on. Literally they have to push one button per week and be available by email for a whopping two hours per week. When I asked about this I was told they have to grade every student in the school, which makes it too time consuming to do more. Now that’s off the table, so when will they be expected to do anything close to what’s being expected of elementary teachers who teach academic content? There’s a lot that we have to do behind the scenes that parents and the general public don’t understand because they only see the live instruction piece, which is a blip in the scheme of our days.

Yes, I’m feeling resentment as I’m about to start my day where I’ll spend more hours working than if we were in the school building without any of the “flexibility” MCPS is telling the public we have.

Yes, I’m thankful I have a job as I know so many have lost their income. I’m lucky and shouldn’t be complaining at all. It’s just difficult knowing that many employees are collecting their full salary for being on quarantine vacation while others of us are working our a**es off but we’re supposed to be acting like we’re all in the same boat and in this together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the better questions is why are our school counselors, librarians, and nurses being paid to do nothing at all right now.

And the athletic directors, janitors, cafeteria people, building maintenance, guidance counselors, principals, assistant principals, etc.
There is a lot of overhead at MCPS, all of who are receiving a paid vacation right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the better questions is why are our school counselors, librarians, and nurses being paid to do nothing at all right now.

And the athletic directors, janitors, cafeteria people, building maintenance, guidance counselors, principals, assistant principals, etc.
There is a lot of overhead at MCPS, all of who are receiving a paid vacation right now.

It was hilarious watching our assistant principal struggle with running her own Zoom meeting with just adults after sending out multiple emails about how we need to focus on helping parents solve tech issues *during* our Zoom classes with students. Meanwhile she couldn’t figure out how to admit the principal into the meeting and she kept accidentally muting herself and getting annoyed when we didn’t have an instant answer to her question. We couldn’t hear the freaking question!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the better questions is why are our school counselors, librarians, and nurses being paid to do nothing at all right now.

As well as elementary art, music and PE teachers. They press a button to push out one lesson per week that’s been provided by MCPS in grade bands. K-2 lesson one week, 3-5 the next. No live instruction, no creating content, no troubleshooting tech for parents, no being expected to investigate with families why their kids aren’t logging on. Literally they have to push one button per week and be available by email for a whopping two hours per week. When I asked about this I was told they have to grade every student in the school, which makes it too time consuming to do more. Now that’s off the table, so when will they be expected to do anything close to what’s being expected of elementary teachers who teach academic content? There’s a lot that we have to do behind the scenes that parents and the general public don’t understand because they only see the live instruction piece, which is a blip in the scheme of our days.

Yes, I’m feeling resentment as I’m about to start my day where I’ll spend more hours working than if we were in the school building without any of the “flexibility” MCPS is telling the public we have.

Yes, I’m thankful I have a job as I know so many have lost their income. I’m lucky and shouldn’t be complaining at all. It’s just difficult knowing that many employees are collecting their full salary for being on quarantine vacation while others of us are working our a**es off but we’re supposed to be acting like we’re all in the same boat and in this together.

Completely agree with this. Why aren't the PE, music and art teachers providing support to students? There are many populations in the county, at every school, that could use additional support most especially special education students. I mean aren't they certified teachers? Didn't they go to college? I've got to assume they can do more than teach PE, art or music. They could be running small groups of students at their schools to help with reading, math, etc. I understand that this may not be possible at the middle or high school level, but at least at the elementary level they could be providing this support. As for middle school or high school there must be some way that these teachers can be made useful.

[Anonymous]

16 pages and it was an April Fools joke!

[Anonymous]

Many of us are paying a ton of people to not work right now. Teachers do not fall in that category.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16 pages and it was an April Fools joke!

Obviously, it wasn't funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the better questions is why are our school counselors, librarians, and nurses being paid to do nothing at all right now.

As well as elementary art, music and PE teachers. They press a button to push out one lesson per week that’s been provided by MCPS in grade bands. K-2 lesson one week, 3-5 the next. No live instruction, no creating content, no troubleshooting tech for parents, no being expected to investigate with families why their kids aren’t logging on. Literally they have to push one button per week and be available by email for a whopping two hours per week. When I asked about this I was told they have to grade every student in the school, which makes it too time consuming to do more. Now that’s off the table, so when will they be expected to do anything close to what’s being expected of elementary teachers who teach academic content? There’s a lot that we have to do behind the scenes that parents and the general public don’t understand because they only see the live instruction piece, which is a blip in the scheme of our days.

Yes, I’m feeling resentment as I’m about to start my day where I’ll spend more hours working than if we were in the school building without any of the “flexibility” MCPS is telling the public we have.

Yes, I’m thankful I have a job as I know so many have lost their income. I’m lucky and shouldn’t be complaining at all. It’s just difficult knowing that many employees are collecting their full salary for being on quarantine vacation while others of us are working our a**es off but we’re supposed to be acting like we’re all in the same boat and in this together.

Completely agree with this. Why aren't the PE, music and art teachers providing support to students? There are many populations in the county, at every school, that could use additional support most especially special education students. I mean aren't they certified teachers? Didn't they go to college? I've got to assume they can do more than teach PE, art or music. They could be running small groups of students at their schools to help with reading, math, etc. I understand that this may not be possible at the middle or high school level, but at least at the elementary level they could be providing this support. As for middle school or high school there must be some way that these teachers can be made useful.

These people should be the ones providing tech support and tracking down students who haven’t shown up yet. They took all the same trainings as other teachers did (or at least they should have). It shouldn’t have to all fall on classroom, Esol and special Ed teachers who are already doing a disproportionate amount of the work.

[Anonymous]

SpEd teachers have a caseload of 25 students typically. ESOL can be up to 60. I know at my school all of the front office staff, counseling department, SpEd, para educators, etc. have been working on reaching out to students constantly.

I am an elective teacher. We usually teach multiple grade levels and have multiple courses, so we can seem pretty spread thin. But I have definitely been working at least 6 hours every day for the last 4 weeks. Of course, it may not be obvious to students and parents since we may not depend on Zoom instruction as much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simple answer. Union. If the school system is modeled like the rest of the world then less work means less pay. Our dance/soccer class canceled so no tuition. Plain and simple. You don’t pay for services not provided. Unionized schools protect its members and often at the expense of progress and what should be the main goal of school - education.

Sorry but from MCPS point of view, the main goal of school is "to reduce the achievement gap" and "to provide free food". Education...Hmmmmm maybe the 6th or 7th goal.

Word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the better questions is why are our school counselors, librarians, and nurses being paid to do nothing at all right now.

And the athletic directors, janitors, cafeteria people, building maintenance, guidance counselors, principals, assistant principals, etc.
There is a lot of overhead at MCPS, all of who are receiving a paid vacation right now.

Really? Are you so heartless and dense you would rather see them unemployed?