MCPS Human Resources

[Anonymous]

So if teachers who did their masters along side mcps teachers are not trained good enough to be teachers despite getting top grades in Maryland universities in education and technical content areas, what makes a beurocrat so desirable as a teacher. If teachers who studied teaching are not good enough to be teachers why would someone who did not get trained or volunteer thousands of hours be better. I am confused by the logic.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the Fed to Ed program is taking away positions from teachers who are actually certified. Meanwhile, some person from the IRS has conditional certification...ridiculous.

Explain how if there were excess openings that exceeded the # of certified teachers who were interested in applying?

Well they aren’t hiring people who are certified and more than qualified. I have two friends who were trying to move to McPs bc of the shit in DC and got zero calls this summer. No interview invites, just straight rejection emails. These are both teachers rated highly effective in DCPS and have 10 years experience. I’ve heard similiar on the MCPS teacher fb group.

I heard that from a qualified teacher who applied to MCPS too. They should at least be able to respond with a rejection, but it's bizarre because there are openings (our school is looking for an ES teacher).

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Anonymous wrote:Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...

You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.

It just seems like a luxury, and they should focus on the basics (paying employees on time, background checks) first. MCPS is 75.6% non-white students, so it's not like the groups you cited are marginalized. Latinos for example are the largest group at MCPS, at 34.6%.

And we still have a majority white female workforce who don’t all know how to engage with other cultures effectively or understand bias.

There is so much implicit bias in classrooms. I am white and more than once I’ve watched teachers hand FARMS applications to Black and Latino parents and not to me at BTSN or Open House. That’s just a small example.

Based on data MCPS publishes: 74% of county Hispanic students receive free lunch, and 62% of African American students. Less than 5% of white families do. I wouldn’t call your anecdote implicit bias.

How about taking an objective approach by offering the FARMs application to all so as not to offend anyone? Would the 95% be offended if it was offered?

[Anonymous]

They are STILL VERY behind on hiring. Students need teachers in the classrooms, not subs. They need stability. You'd think HR's main concern would be pushing new hires through as fast as they can. SMH

[Anonymous]

I heard that HR is severely understaffed and untrained. They are not able to perform the basic functions of the job. You literally cannot get ahold of anyone unless you are willing to wait over an hour on the phone.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that HR is severely understaffed and untrained. They are not able to perform the basic functions of the job. You literally cannot get ahold of anyone unless you are willing to wait over an hour on the phone.

The future of MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that HR is severely understaffed and untrained. They are not able to perform the basic functions of the job. You literally cannot get ahold of anyone unless you are willing to wait over an hour on the phone.

The future of MCPS.

MCPs will try to address this by hiring an associate superintendent of wait times at $250,000 a year.

[Anonymous]

Its really bad for current staff who have HR questions or concerns... there are still people who have unanswered questions regarding their paychecks and lesve despite the PR that MCPS has put out to the contrary. Its really a system that is in a free fall

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Are all schools systems this dysfunctional?

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that HR is severely understaffed and untrained. They are not able to perform the basic functions of the job. You literally cannot get ahold of anyone unless you are willing to wait over an hour on the phone.

The future of MCPS.

MCPs will try to address this by hiring an associate superintendent of wait times at $250,000 a year.

Omg I hate that this is so hilariously accurate. This is exactly what they would do.

[Anonymous]

but seriously, leave the HR people alone. I'm going to bet that they are trying their best with limited staffing and funding. Leadership is a different story.

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Anonymous wrote:but seriously, leave the HR people alone. I'm going to bet that they are trying their best with limited staffing and funding. Leadership is a different story.

Until the law is broken with delays on legal deadlines they are required to meet. Just because the standard isn’t in the WH doesn’t mean it shouldn’t apply to MCPS. Someone in HR needs to be accountable.

[Anonymous]

They are under-staffed, under-resourced, and have had many directors over the past 17 years, and each claims they will fix the mess that is MCPS HR. None have ever been able to, and they move on to the next

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Anonymous wrote:They are under-staffed, under-resourced, and have had many directors over the past 17 years, and each claims they will fix the mess that is MCPS HR. None have ever been able to, and they move on to the next

And there is a trickle down effect similar in each individual school.

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Anonymous wrote:They are STILL VERY behind on hiring. Students need teachers in the classrooms, not subs. They need stability. You'd think HR's main concern would be pushing new hires through as fast as they can. SMH

You think there are many people wanting to work for MCPS where they have to deal with crazy MCPS parents? That ship has sailed.