The PD video teachers must watch on Monday

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers in my group openly objected to the constant framing that they are somehow to blame or needed training. They thought it was insulting and academically dishonest. If a kid refuses to do any work it is not the fault of one teacher. No amount of training will fix it.

Good for them! I hope your admin listened to you all. This smear campaign is disgusting.

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Teachers have a sort of Stockholm Syndrome after a while.

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I heard a lot of good things about the PD from the teachers at the majority minority MCPS high school where I work as a support staff. The prominent complainers, according to the five or so teachers I talked to, are known racists.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard a lot of good things about the PD from the teachers at the majority minority MCPS high school where I work as a support staff. The prominent complainers, according to the five or so teachers I talked to, are known racists.

Found the central office employee.

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Anonymous wrote:I consider myself to be politically liberal, though definitely on the moderate side, but this is blatant communist political programming masquerading as professional development.

I’m a parent and not a teacher, but if I were a teacher I would feel insulted and disrespected that this is what my school district is trying to pass off as professional development. This is abysmal.

Monifa has no shame.

Please share your definition of the word "communist".

You must have been stuck with a troublemaker disrupting your English and History classes.

If you watched that video and you missed the communist/socialist undertones, then I’m not going to do your critical thinking for you. But it wasn’t even disguised. She literally said education is political work.

Oh dear. Sorry you’re not very bright.

Because stating the obvious is stupid?

Because socialism and communism are in no way the same thing, you abject moron.

I'd be careful calling anyone a moron, since your grasp of socialism is obviously weak.

"Socialism and communism are two branches from a single source."

"...communism is an extreme form of socialism."

"Communism has two phases. The first or lower phase of communism is called socialism, that is the phase between capitalism and communism. The second or higher phase of communism is the perfect stage. There is no inequality or injustice in this stage."

"Socialism and communism are both economic systems in which the public owns the means of production. The means of production include the raw materials and means of labor, such as machines and tools, used in production processes. Under both systems the state also engages in centralized planning; in a planned or command economy, business activities and resource allocation are controlled by the state, ostensibly for the greater good. Vladimir Lenin, who led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, saw communism as a "higher stage" of socialism."

Back to class, you "ill-informed person"...

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The elementary school I work at is almost all minority (I have 1 white kid in my class). Our staff is diverse and our admin is diverse.

The PD was NOT well received at our school. Everyone is in favor of anti racist studies and practices. However, I haven’t met any (except n this site) who feel the best strategy for being anti-racist is to take away all classroom management. Having kids constantly destroy classrooms, curse out the teachers, have fights at recess etc does not benefit any kids.

In fact, at our school, the most vocal teachers are the black ones (the only ones comfortable speaking in the current environment) about how they feel kids need structure and guidelines.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard a lot of good things about the PD from the teachers at the majority minority MCPS high school where I work as a support staff. The prominent complainers, according to the five or so teachers I talked to, are known racists.

Found the central office employee.

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Anonymous wrote:The elementary school I work at is almost all minority (I have 1 white kid in my class). Our staff is diverse and our admin is diverse.

The PD was NOT well received at our school. Everyone is in favor of anti racist studies and practices. However, I haven’t met any (except n this site) who feel the best strategy for being anti-racist is to take away all classroom management. Having kids constantly destroy classrooms, curse out the teachers, have fights at recess etc does not benefit any kids.

In fact, at our school, the most vocal teachers are the black ones (the only ones comfortable speaking in the current environment) about how they feel kids need structure and guidelines.

Sounds like we might work at the same elementary school. It didn't go over well with our very diverse staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey Karen. Rebut the facts instead of bullying the teachers just stating the truth.

Karens don't bully teachers - they believe in rules and consequences for students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The elementary school I work at is almost all minority (I have 1 white kid in my class). Our staff is diverse and our admin is diverse.

The PD was NOT well received at our school. Everyone is in favor of anti racist studies and practices. However, I haven’t met any (except n this site) who feel the best strategy for being anti-racist is to take away all classroom management. Having kids constantly destroy classrooms, curse out the teachers, have fights at recess etc does not benefit any kids.

In fact, at our school, the most vocal teachers are the black ones (the only ones comfortable speaking in the current environment) about how they feel kids need structure and guidelines.

This is why the antiracist and DEI crap that claims to act in the name of black people is so insulting. It rubs black people as disingenuine at best and toxic and harmful to the black and brown populations they're claiming to save.

The white savior complex is real and dangerous.

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Anonymous wrote:Extra extra read all about it The Bible, hamarabis code, and 5000 years of human history has been doing treating crime incorrectly because mcps chicken head idea of letting criminals run wild was the correct protocol.

To be sure, 5,000 years of that bullshit wasn’t working particularly well.

I went to school during an era where there were punishments for misbehavior. It seemed to work out fine. Were there still violent and uncontrollable students? Yes, they were in the special schools and didn't ruin education for everyone else. They received extra therapies and sometimes residential treatment. Some even went to jail. Perfect? no, but much better than what we have now.

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Anonymous wrote:As the training was part of MCPS's commitment to antiracism work, it would have been nice if my administrator had acknowledged the terrorist attack in Israel, carved out time to prepare teachers to discuss it the next day with students, as quite a large number at my W middle are Jewish and already have dealt with a lot of antisemitism, and also acknowledged that many of his staff members might be struggling themselves to process the event. I'm not Jewish but many of my colleagues are, and I felt so uncomfortable about the omission.

I would have felt uncomfortable if admin mentioned it, but didn't acknowledge Israeli apartheid, and the terror that many Palestinians have been living under for more than half a century.

Sometimes I really have to shake my head at the level of analysis used to discuss complicated topics...

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Anonymous wrote:I heard a lot of good things about the PD from the teachers at the majority minority MCPS high school where I work as a support staff. The prominent complainers, according to the five or so teachers I talked to, are known racists.

Found the central office employee.

Hah no. I work as a paraeducator at a high school in the north east consortium. About as far away from Central Office as possible!

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS teachers/administrators, would someone post the slides from today’s training here? The training as part of the “audit” was broader than the video segment. Parents have a right to know how public school teachers are being trained to interact with/teach their children. Thanks you.

It's mostly from the video that was posted at the beginning of the thread. It has reflection questions that we paused for. The other stuff was about our new equity plan based on the anti racist audit, nothing groundbreaking.

But you also don't actually have the right to any MCPS training materials.

Weird, because as taxpayers, all of us are paying for this training. Why is there no transparency? What would MCPS need to hide?

You could get this thru a state open records act request.

No need. They made the link viewable to anyone on the internet. Here are the Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U4S13sAFxV9t7GQHz-w7Ur48iGG-I28j1nItnKNxnbI/edit#slide=id.g282305a6403_0_3570

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard a lot of good things about the PD from the teachers at the majority minority MCPS high school where I work as a support staff. The prominent complainers, according to the five or so teachers I talked to, are known racists.

Found the central office employee.

Nice to see you again, Q!