Three preps for MS teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Talk to your EFR. I believe there is language in the contract surrounding preps. I think 3 is the max, but I could be wrong.

Unfortunately, the teacher can’t join MCEA due to religious convictions. I feel like admin knew which of us to pick on.

What does MCEA have to do with religion?

Some religions, or factions or certain religions (Jehovah's witness, seventh day adventist) prohibit union membership.

I seemed to miss that lesson in the bible.

For some religions with pacifism as a tenet, it’s carried over from violent strikes in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There was a point in history all over the world where strikers were expected to physically fight the police, private guards, and scabs (strikebreakers). For some faiths (not just Judeo-Christian ones), this expectation of violence was inconsistent with other teachings. Today, many Quakers belong to unions, but once it would have been unthinkable.

Seems a weak argument to have a blanket opposition to unions. Violence is a sin, sure. Biblical. Trying to make people's lives better is God's work. Also biblical. Unions, per se, aren't biblical.

The Bible isn’t the guide for all religious people who practice pacifism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Talk to your EFR. I believe there is language in the contract surrounding preps. I think 3 is the max, but I could be wrong.

Unfortunately, the teacher can’t join MCEA due to religious convictions. I feel like admin knew which of us to pick on.

What does MCEA have to do with religion?

Some religions, or factions or certain religions (Jehovah's witness, seventh day adventist) prohibit union membership.

I seemed to miss that lesson in the bible.

For some religions with pacifism as a tenet, it’s carried over from violent strikes in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There was a point in history all over the world where strikers were expected to physically fight the police, private guards, and scabs (strikebreakers). For some faiths (not just Judeo-Christian ones), this expectation of violence was inconsistent with other teachings. Today, many Quakers belong to unions, but once it would have been unthinkable.

Seems a weak argument to have a blanket opposition to unions. Violence is a sin, sure. Biblical. Trying to make people's lives better is God's work. Also biblical. Unions, per se, aren't biblical.

The Bible isn’t the guide for all religious people who practice pacifism.

Sure. But what is it about unions that precludes pacifism for MCPS employees? I still don't see the connection. You can be a union member working to better lives collectively without ceding a pacifist stance. Lord knows we've seen enough religious violence without involving unions.

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Anonymous wrote:What are "preps" in this context?

Interested as a parent of a former MCPS student with SN.

If a teacher teaches Math 6 and Math 7, they have two preps, i.e. two courses they have to prepare to teach.

Or English 6 and Advanced English 6.

Not in MCPS where all kids are advanced

Some MCPS schools still have on level courses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are "preps" in this context?

Interested as a parent of a former MCPS student with SN.

If a teacher teaches Math 6 and Math 7, they have two preps, i.e. two courses they have to prepare to teach.

Or English 6 and Advanced English 6.

Not in MCPS where all kids are advanced

Some MCPS schools still have on level courses.

Some may, but most don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are "preps" in this context?

Interested as a parent of a former MCPS student with SN.

If a teacher teaches Math 6 and Math 7, they have two preps, i.e. two courses they have to prepare to teach.

Or English 6 and Advanced English 6.

Not in MCPS where all kids are advanced

Some MCPS schools still have on level courses.

Some may, but most don't.

At least one school that does (mine), a teacher has sections of both on-level English and Advanced English. That would be two preps.

[Anonymous]

I’ve had 3 preps every year I’ve been in MCPS…