Teachers not returning. MCPS to hire “Monitors” instead

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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.

DCUM has been comparing working in school with working at Target for months. Why change now?

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Ultimately 40% of students opted for hybrid. Many of those parents, like me, chose hybrid to preserve the option of choice when hybrid instruction begins. I estimate 25-30% actually return to in-person instruction.

Those pushing for reopening with concurrent learning are clearly in the minority but appear to be the most vocal on this forum. I surmise these are the same Reopen MCPS folks that rush to sign up to testify at the BOE minutes as soon as the signup goes live. The lack of diversity in these testimonies has not gone unnoticed. Frankly, these people do not represent my concerns, and I suppose the majority of the parents in this county.