MCPS asks for 4 days off so teachers can prepare building for in-person instruction

[Anonymous]

Good Grief folks...our small private just reopened and the teachers had two full days for professional development plus a three day weekend and inauguration day to get ready. That is for a small school with people who work together well and who work with very engaged families. Yes MCPS needs time to get the teachers back in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Grief folks...our small private just reopened and the teachers had two full days for professional development plus a three day weekend and inauguration day to get ready. That is for a small school with people who work together well and who work with very engaged families. Yes MCPS needs time to get the teachers back in school.

I agree but realistically we aren't going back this year so they should get 4 days when we have an actual return date and for those teachers actually returning. Very different with a small private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Grief folks...our small private just reopened and the teachers had two full days for professional development plus a three day weekend and inauguration day to get ready. That is for a small school with people who work together well and who work with very engaged families. Yes MCPS needs time to get the teachers back in school.

They can give a day and not have to make it up. Otherwise, they can give more but teachers will need to make it up later in the year.

[Anonymous]

i don't need time. I will roll in the air purifier, put up my plexi glass partitions and setup my cleaning materials and practice wearing my hazmat suit w/ oxygen while talking. No bulletin boards! It probably harbors viruses. I will put up my clear strings of lights for decoration and safety/ cleaning posters. Now, waiting for my Steam Shark and clothes steamer to arrive....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i don't need time. I will roll in the air purifier, put up my plexi glass partitions and setup my cleaning materials and practice wearing my hazmat suit w/ oxygen while talking. No bulletin boards! It probably harbors viruses. I will put up my clear strings of lights for decoration and safety/ cleaning posters. Now, waiting for my Steam Shark and clothes steamer to arrive....

Steam cleaner and clothing cleaner isn't helpful. Wash your clothing and take a shower as soon as you get home and regularly wipe down everything with cleaner. No sharing supplies either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Grief folks...our small private just reopened and the teachers had two full days for professional development plus a three day weekend and inauguration day to get ready. That is for a small school with people who work together well and who work with very engaged families. Yes MCPS needs time to get the teachers back in school.

Which school? Your students had a week off with no teaching

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i don't need time. I will roll in the air purifier, put up my plexi glass partitions and setup my cleaning materials and practice wearing my hazmat suit w/ oxygen while talking. No bulletin boards! It probably harbors viruses. I will put up my clear strings of lights for decoration and safety/ cleaning posters. Now, waiting for my Steam Shark and clothes steamer to arrive....

Oh wow look. Another dramatic drippy whiny teacher. Shocker

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but-MCPS was denied the ability to waive 4 of the 180 required teaching days and they did not modify the calendar to add 4 days to the end of the year. All they gotta do is extend the school year like they do when there's lots of snow days. I would think everyone would be happy the state is protecting every single teaching day possible.

The issue with just adding days to the calendar is that you then have to pay teachers for those additional days, which haven't been budgeted for or negotiated about. Regardless of what the days are used for (additional teaching or time to set up the room or a combination of both), you can't ask any professional to work additional days without pay. You might think that the teachers SHOULD work without pay, but that's not going to happen.

Instead a compromise needs to be made, waive 2 of the required 180 teaching days? find money in the budget to pay for teachers for a few extra days? mandate that teachers cannot have required meetings a few Wednesdays in row so they can go in and set up?

But yet they were paid for a few weeks to do nothing last March, correct?

You are aware that not working for the two weeks last March wasn't a teacher decision? That came from MCPS Admin not individual teachers who decided not to work randomly.

But they say on their butts and got paid. So working 4 days unpaid if they want that to decorate their rooms sounds extremely reasonable.

I work weekends and late nights all of the time. Get real with this BS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Grief folks...our small private just reopened and the teachers had two full days for professional development plus a three day weekend and inauguration day to get ready. That is for a small school with people who work together well and who work with very engaged families. Yes MCPS needs time to get the teachers back in school.

Private schools are affluent families other smart kids. Losing 4 days in a school population with 40% FARM is another

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but-MCPS was denied the ability to waive 4 of the 180 required teaching days and they did not modify the calendar to add 4 days to the end of the year. All they gotta do is extend the school year like they do when there's lots of snow days. I would think everyone would be happy the state is protecting every single teaching day possible.

The issue with just adding days to the calendar is that you then have to pay teachers for those additional days, which haven't been budgeted for or negotiated about. Regardless of what the days are used for (additional teaching or time to set up the room or a combination of both), you can't ask any professional to work additional days without pay. You might think that the teachers SHOULD work without pay, but that's not going to happen.

Instead a compromise needs to be made, waive 2 of the required 180 teaching days? find money in the budget to pay for teachers for a few extra days? mandate that teachers cannot have required meetings a few Wednesdays in row so they can go in and set up?

But yet they were paid for a few weeks to do nothing last March, correct?

You are aware that not working for the two weeks last March wasn't a teacher decision? That came from MCPS Admin not individual teachers who decided not to work randomly.

But they say on their butts and got paid. So working 4 days unpaid if they want that to decorate their rooms sounds extremely reasonable.

I work weekends and late nights all of the time. Get real with this BS

Sounds like you have bad time management

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but-MCPS was denied the ability to waive 4 of the 180 required teaching days and they did not modify the calendar to add 4 days to the end of the year. All they gotta do is extend the school year like they do when there's lots of snow days. I would think everyone would be happy the state is protecting every single teaching day possible.

The issue with just adding days to the calendar is that you then have to pay teachers for those additional days, which haven't been budgeted for or negotiated about. Regardless of what the days are used for (additional teaching or time to set up the room or a combination of both), you can't ask any professional to work additional days without pay. You might think that the teachers SHOULD work without pay, but that's not going to happen.

Instead a compromise needs to be made, waive 2 of the required 180 teaching days? find money in the budget to pay for teachers for a few extra days? mandate that teachers cannot have required meetings a few Wednesdays in row so they can go in and set up?

But yet they were paid for a few weeks to do nothing last March, correct?

You are aware that not working for the two weeks last March wasn't a teacher decision? That came from MCPS Admin not individual teachers who decided not to work randomly.

But they say on their butts and got paid. So working 4 days unpaid if they want that to decorate their rooms sounds extremely reasonable.

I work weekends and late nights all of the time. Get real with this BS

Sounds like you have bad time management

Sounds like it. Many teachers are already putting in extra hours between activities, grading, answering emails and such. Its funny you would never be a teacher and yet, you think you know all about teaching.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i don't need time. I will roll in the air purifier, put up my plexi glass partitions and setup my cleaning materials and practice wearing my hazmat suit w/ oxygen while talking. No bulletin boards! It probably harbors viruses. I will put up my clear strings of lights for decoration and safety/ cleaning posters. Now, waiting for my Steam Shark and clothes steamer to arrive....

Oh wow look. Another dramatic drippy whiny teacher. Shocker

Seriously, look in the mirror. You’re not any better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but-MCPS was denied the ability to waive 4 of the 180 required teaching days and they did not modify the calendar to add 4 days to the end of the year. All they gotta do is extend the school year like they do when there's lots of snow days. I would think everyone would be happy the state is protecting every single teaching day possible.

The issue with just adding days to the calendar is that you then have to pay teachers for those additional days, which haven't been budgeted for or negotiated about. Regardless of what the days are used for (additional teaching or time to set up the room or a combination of both), you can't ask any professional to work additional days without pay. You might think that the teachers SHOULD work without pay, but that's not going to happen.

Instead a compromise needs to be made, waive 2 of the required 180 teaching days? find money in the budget to pay for teachers for a few extra days? mandate that teachers cannot have required meetings a few Wednesdays in row so they can go in and set up?

But yet they were paid for a few weeks to do nothing last March, correct?

You are aware that not working for the two weeks last March wasn't a teacher decision? That came from MCPS Admin not individual teachers who decided not to work randomly.

Teachers didn’t have off for two weeks in March. They were in meetings and trainings the first week and the second week, the days were made up over spring break and in May and June. The state gave a waiver for 1 or 2 of those days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but-MCPS was denied the ability to waive 4 of the 180 required teaching days and they did not modify the calendar to add 4 days to the end of the year. All they gotta do is extend the school year like they do when there's lots of snow days. I would think everyone would be happy the state is protecting every single teaching day possible.

The issue with just adding days to the calendar is that you then have to pay teachers for those additional days, which haven't been budgeted for or negotiated about. Regardless of what the days are used for (additional teaching or time to set up the room or a combination of both), you can't ask any professional to work additional days without pay. You might think that the teachers SHOULD work without pay, but that's not going to happen.

Instead a compromise needs to be made, waive 2 of the required 180 teaching days? find money in the budget to pay for teachers for a few extra days? mandate that teachers cannot have required meetings a few Wednesdays in row so they can go in and set up?

But yet they were paid for a few weeks to do nothing last March, correct?

You are aware that not working for the two weeks last March wasn't a teacher decision? That came from MCPS Admin not individual teachers who decided not to work randomly.

But they say on their butts and got paid. So working 4 days unpaid if they want that to decorate their rooms sounds extremely reasonable.

I work weekends and late nights all of the time. Get real with this BS

You choose to work weekends and late nights, and you choose to stay in a job that you think requires you to work weekends and late nights.

Teachers are contracted employees and will not be forced to work for free because you demand they do so. Don't like it? Too bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but-MCPS was denied the ability to waive 4 of the 180 required teaching days and they did not modify the calendar to add 4 days to the end of the year. All they gotta do is extend the school year like they do when there's lots of snow days. I would think everyone would be happy the state is protecting every single teaching day possible.

The issue with just adding days to the calendar is that you then have to pay teachers for those additional days, which haven't been budgeted for or negotiated about. Regardless of what the days are used for (additional teaching or time to set up the room or a combination of both), you can't ask any professional to work additional days without pay. You might think that the teachers SHOULD work without pay, but that's not going to happen.

Instead a compromise needs to be made, waive 2 of the required 180 teaching days? find money in the budget to pay for teachers for a few extra days? mandate that teachers cannot have required meetings a few Wednesdays in row so they can go in and set up?

But yet they were paid for a few weeks to do nothing last March, correct?

You are aware that not working for the two weeks last March wasn't a teacher decision? That came from MCPS Admin not individual teachers who decided not to work randomly.

But they say on their butts and got paid. So working 4 days unpaid if they want that to decorate their rooms sounds extremely reasonable.

I work weekends and late nights all of the time. Get real with this BS

Should all of the first year teachers and other new hires, who didn't get those two weeks off in March, just work for free? You are suggesting that it's an okay trade-off because the teachers were paid in March for "sitting on their butts". That certainly wouldn't be fair, or legal, to do unilaterally. The county would be asking to be sued.