Teachers not returning. MCPS to hire “Monitors” instead

[Anonymous]

Can someone point me to what the union has *actually* demanded from MCPS with regard to reopening?

Not what they’ve discussed, or said in various op-ed or social media forums, but what demands they’ve actually voted on and submitted in writing to MCPS. What, *officially*, do they want in order to avoid which actions? I keep hearing that they can’t strike, so what are they *officially* threatening to do?

[Anonymous]

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

OMG. You’re just a racist scumbag.

[Anonymous]

13:57 has it backwards, and KNOWS it. Lol.
No school - No paycheck!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

Right. But that’s why some schools are going hybrid— so half the class can come in the AM and the other half in the PM. Or, half can come on M/Tu and the other half on Th/F. No need for monitors.

Wrong. The plan for hybrid only works with monitors. Too many teachers filed ADA exemptions that must be honored.

You are only thinking about Elementary school and not middle/high school where kids have 7 different teachers and take different classes. How do you manage those schedules to make sure every one of the 7 classes (times 1000+ students/schedules) stay within the small cohort? If you can figure out those algorithmns then you should be able to make a mint selling them to schools.

PP is wrong re: elementary schools, too. The teachers are coming back. The monitors have nothing to do with ADA exemptions. Fewer kids allowed in a classroom = more rooms needed = more people needed to supervise.

Still doesn’t fix the fact that the monitors will be doing the same “dangerous, you’re going to kill us” work as the teachers but for minimum wage and no health insurance should they get sick. Time for the teachers to look out for some one other than themselves and take pay cuts so the monitors can have decent pay and health insurance. I used to think of public school Union teachers as heroes. Not anymore. The respect for them is gone snd the shine is off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:13:57 has it backwards, and KNOWS it. Lol.
No school - No paycheck!

Are you telling me that only minorities can apply for these jobs as they won’t qualify for better jobs? You’re a racist too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:13:57 has it backwards, and KNOWS it. Lol.
No school - No paycheck!

Are you telling me that only minorities can apply for these jobs as they won’t qualify for better jobs? You’re a racist too.

Speak for yourself.

No school — No paycheck!

Children need to go back to school already!

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1 Among those of us who are familiar with the workings of local government and MCPS, yes a lot of us are fed up with public sector unions. Rather than sticking to fighting for decent compensation and safe working conditions, they instead choose to protect incompetent and unethical workers and make life as difficult as possible for management as a bargaining tool. It's really difficult to manage unionized workforce because every little thing needs to be negotiated. And the public and taxpayers are the ultimate losers.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1 Among those of us who are familiar with the workings of local government and MCPS, yes a lot of us are fed up with public sector unions. Rather than sticking to fighting for decent compensation and safe working conditions, they instead choose to protect incompetent and unethical workers and make life as difficult as possible for management as a bargaining tool. It's really difficult to manage unionized workforce because every little thing needs to be negotiated. And the public and taxpayers are the ultimate losers.

Many of their members are as frustrated as you. I can speak to it more from federal unions, but it frustrates high performers that nothing will happen to deadweight in the office and the union even fights against any, even nominal, ways to differentiate between employees. I'm not anti-union. They play an important role and provide some real benefits, but they also have some real downsides.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1 Among those of us who are familiar with the workings of local government and MCPS, yes a lot of us are fed up with public sector unions. Rather than sticking to fighting for decent compensation and safe working conditions, they instead choose to protect incompetent and unethical workers and make life as difficult as possible for management as a bargaining tool. It's really difficult to manage unionized workforce because every little thing needs to be negotiated. And the public and taxpayers are the ultimate losers.

Many of their members are as frustrated as you. I can speak to it more from federal unions, but it frustrates high performers that nothing will happen to deadweight in the office and the union even fights against any, even nominal, ways to differentiate between employees. I'm not anti-union. They play an important role and provide some real benefits, but they also have some real downsides.

The problem is that DCUM is implying any teacher not currently teaching in person is deadweight although MCPS teachers have not yet been told to teach in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

+1 Among those of us who are familiar with the workings of local government and MCPS, yes a lot of us are fed up with public sector unions. Rather than sticking to fighting for decent compensation and safe working conditions, they instead choose to protect incompetent and unethical workers and make life as difficult as possible for management as a bargaining tool. It's really difficult to manage unionized workforce because every little thing needs to be negotiated. And the public and taxpayers are the ultimate losers.

Then you should fully support MCEA’s current focus on safe working conditions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

Right. But that’s why some schools are going hybrid— so half the class can come in the AM and the other half in the PM. Or, half can come on M/Tu and the other half on Th/F. No need for monitors.

Wrong. The plan for hybrid only works with monitors. Too many teachers filed ADA exemptions that must be honored.

You are only thinking about Elementary school and not middle/high school where kids have 7 different teachers and take different classes. How do you manage those schedules to make sure every one of the 7 classes (times 1000+ students/schedules) stay within the small cohort? If you can figure out those algorithmns then you should be able to make a mint selling them to schools.

PP is wrong re: elementary schools, too. The teachers are coming back. The monitors have nothing to do with ADA exemptions. Fewer kids allowed in a classroom = more rooms needed = more people needed to supervise.

Still doesn’t fix the fact that the monitors will be doing the same “dangerous, you’re going to kill us” work as the teachers but for minimum wage and no health insurance should they get sick. Time for the teachers to look out for some one other than themselves and take pay cuts so the monitors can have decent pay and health insurance. I used to think of public school Union teachers as heroes. Not anymore. The respect for them is gone snd the shine is off.

Nurses are getting paid less than doctors, warehouse workers make less than their supervisors, and the person who bags groceries makes less than the cashier or the store manager. They’re not being paid according to their relative COVID risks, they’re being paid according to their relative qualifications, experience and responsibilities. Just as they are in normal times.

These jobs being advertised by MCPS are casual, short-term positions for minimally-credentialed workers, and the sad fact is that those sort of jobs almost never come with benefits, in any industry. If Macy’s hires extra retail help over the holidays, do those workers have the same salary and benefits as full-time employees?

Your argument is not strengthened by the number of times you repeat it, or the amount of venom you pour into it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

Right. But that’s why some schools are going hybrid— so half the class can come in the AM and the other half in the PM. Or, half can come on M/Tu and the other half on Th/F. No need for monitors.

Wrong. The plan for hybrid only works with monitors. Too many teachers filed ADA exemptions that must be honored.

You are only thinking about Elementary school and not middle/high school where kids have 7 different teachers and take different classes. How do you manage those schedules to make sure every one of the 7 classes (times 1000+ students/schedules) stay within the small cohort? If you can figure out those algorithmns then you should be able to make a mint selling them to schools.

PP is wrong re: elementary schools, too. The teachers are coming back. The monitors have nothing to do with ADA exemptions. Fewer kids allowed in a classroom = more rooms needed = more people needed to supervise.

Still doesn’t fix the fact that the monitors will be doing the same “dangerous, you’re going to kill us” work as the teachers but for minimum wage and no health insurance should they get sick. Time for the teachers to look out for some one other than themselves and take pay cuts so the monitors can have decent pay and health insurance. I used to think of public school Union teachers as heroes. Not anymore. The respect for them is gone snd the shine is off.

Nurses are getting paid less than doctors, warehouse workers make less than their supervisors, and the person who bags groceries makes less than the cashier or the store manager. They’re not being paid according to their relative COVID risks, they’re being paid according to their relative qualifications, experience and responsibilities. Just as they are in normal times.

These jobs being advertised by MCPS are casual, short-term positions for minimally-credentialed workers, and the sad fact is that those sort of jobs almost never come with benefits, in any industry. If Macy’s hires extra retail help over the holidays, do those workers have the same salary and benefits as full-time employees?

Your argument is not strengthened by the number of times you repeat it, or the amount of venom you pour into it.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1 Among those of us who are familiar with the workings of local government and MCPS, yes a lot of us are fed up with public sector unions. Rather than sticking to fighting for decent compensation and safe working conditions, they instead choose to protect incompetent and unethical workers and make life as difficult as possible for management as a bargaining tool. It's really difficult to manage unionized workforce because every little thing needs to be negotiated. And the public and taxpayers are the ultimate losers.

Many of their members are as frustrated as you. I can speak to it more from federal unions, but it frustrates high performers that nothing will happen to deadweight in the office and the union even fights against any, even nominal, ways to differentiate between employees. I'm not anti-union. They play an important role and provide some real benefits, but they also have some real downsides.

The problem is that DCUM is implying any teacher not currently teaching in person is deadweight although MCPS teachers have not yet been told to teach in person.

some people on here have really thin skins. If reading DCUM is hurting your feelings, stop! Lots of trolls on here just trying to get a rise out of people. And no, DCUM is not the reason unions are causing a lot of damage, which they are. I'm not familiar with the details of MCPS's negotiations with MCEA, but after almost a decade of following local government, I don't trust MCEA or MCPS to prioritize the needs of children and I don't trust MCEA to negotiate in good faith. They have lied so much over the years. Those of us paying attention call BS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

Right. But that’s why some schools are going hybrid— so half the class can come in the AM and the other half in the PM. Or, half can come on M/Tu and the other half on Th/F. No need for monitors.

Wrong. The plan for hybrid only works with monitors. Too many teachers filed ADA exemptions that must be honored.

You are only thinking about Elementary school and not middle/high school where kids have 7 different teachers and take different classes. How do you manage those schedules to make sure every one of the 7 classes (times 1000+ students/schedules) stay within the small cohort? If you can figure out those algorithmns then you should be able to make a mint selling them to schools.

PP is wrong re: elementary schools, too. The teachers are coming back. The monitors have nothing to do with ADA exemptions. Fewer kids allowed in a classroom = more rooms needed = more people needed to supervise.

Still doesn’t fix the fact that the monitors will be doing the same “dangerous, you’re going to kill us” work as the teachers but for minimum wage and no health insurance should they get sick. Time for the teachers to look out for some one other than themselves and take pay cuts so the monitors can have decent pay and health insurance. I used to think of public school Union teachers as heroes. Not anymore. The respect for them is gone snd the shine is off.

Nurses are getting paid less than doctors, warehouse workers make less than their supervisors, and the person who bags groceries makes less than the cashier or the store manager. They’re not being paid according to their relative COVID risks, they’re being paid according to their relative qualifications, experience and responsibilities. Just as they are in normal times.

These jobs being advertised by MCPS are casual, short-term positions for minimally-credentialed workers, and the sad fact is that those sort of jobs almost never come with benefits, in any industry. If Macy’s hires extra retail help over the holidays, do those workers have the same salary and benefits as full-time employees?

Your argument is not strengthened by the number of times you repeat it, or the amount of venom you pour into it.

As a parent of ES kids I am really disturbed by the idea that MCPS is looking for casual, short-term, minimally credentialed workers to be in classrooms supervising my children. What types of background checks are being done, are these casual, short term, minimally credentialed workers going to be alone with the kids, etc. This isn’t a holiday job at a local store for Christ’s sake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

Right. But that’s why some schools are going hybrid— so half the class can come in the AM and the other half in the PM. Or, half can come on M/Tu and the other half on Th/F. No need for monitors.

Wrong. The plan for hybrid only works with monitors. Too many teachers filed ADA exemptions that must be honored.

You are only thinking about Elementary school and not middle/high school where kids have 7 different teachers and take different classes. How do you manage those schedules to make sure every one of the 7 classes (times 1000+ students/schedules) stay within the small cohort? If you can figure out those algorithmns then you should be able to make a mint selling them to schools.

PP is wrong re: elementary schools, too. The teachers are coming back. The monitors have nothing to do with ADA exemptions. Fewer kids allowed in a classroom = more rooms needed = more people needed to supervise.

Still doesn’t fix the fact that the monitors will be doing the same “dangerous, you’re going to kill us” work as the teachers but for minimum wage and no health insurance should they get sick. Time for the teachers to look out for some one other than themselves and take pay cuts so the monitors can have decent pay and health insurance. I used to think of public school Union teachers as heroes. Not anymore. The respect for them is gone snd the shine is off.

Even if every teacher quit tomorrow, MCPS isn’t going to pay monitors more. Do you think that when managers quit, McDonald’s transfers that $ to fry cooks?