Incentives to Keep Teachers

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of county employees with tuff jobs. Why are teachers on a pedestal? Fix the problems in mcps and parents step up and parent your kids.

But other employees get overtime pay. MCPS openly admits teachers work more than 40 hour weeks.

Most professionals work more than 40 hours.

Most professionals get paid enough to make ends meet. My kids qualified for free meals the first few years I was a teacher. Ridiculous.

And now my one in college qualifies for a Pell grant. After all of these years of teaching, I wouldn't think I would fall into the category of "exceptional financial need" but I do.

I qualified for the first time ever for the Earned Income Credit on my taxes. I had to go part time to help care for my child with health issues, but I still have over a hundred students I am responsible for. Insanity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, I signed up to teach. I don’t need additional perks. I just want to teach. I don’t need housing. I just want to teach.

How can I do that? I hate to say it BUT we need to go back to how it was. Take away the electronics. Laptops and cellphones included. Give these kids pencil and paper. Go back to having class segregated with on grade level, below and above. If your child has an IEP or 504 for whatever the damn reason is, they need to go to a specialized school.

Finally some sanity in this conversation. This is the bottom line, right here ^.

YES!!! YES! YES! NO more wasting millions on Cycle of Socialization, Restorative Justice, and other new age garbage. We need consequences, rules, procedures, and cut the fat in central office. I want it like it was!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of county employees with tuff jobs. Why are teachers on a pedestal? Fix the problems in mcps and parents step up and parent your kids.

But other employees get overtime pay. MCPS openly admits teachers work more than 40 hour weeks.

Most professionals work more than 40 hours.

Most professionals get paid enough to make ends meet. My kids qualified for free meals the first few years I was a teacher. Ridiculous.

Where was their other parent? Two teacher family makes good money.

[Anonymous]

The majority of Central would not last 5 minutes in a classroom and my guess is the majority think that teaching is beneath them. Why do we have non educators running the show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of county employees with tuff jobs. Why are teachers on a pedestal? Fix the problems in mcps and parents step up and parent your kids.

But other employees get overtime pay. MCPS openly admits teachers work more than 40 hour weeks.

Most professionals work more than 40 hours.

Most professionals get paid enough to make ends meet. My kids qualified for free meals the first few years I was a teacher. Ridiculous.

Starting salaries for teachers aren't great, but the mid-to-upper range is pretty similar to other professional jobs in the public and non-profit sectors. They're not even that far off from nurses and nurse practitioners/physician assistants doing primary care.

[Anonymous]

Smaller classes (which is near impossible without new buildings) A para in every class for discipline and crowd control. Academic tracking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of county employees with tuff jobs. Why are teachers on a pedestal? Fix the problems in mcps and parents step up and parent your kids.

Tuff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smaller class sizes and more planning time goes a LONG way. All the money won’t make me stay with case loads this high. It’s at the point where the goal is just to safely get kids in and out of the room. Actual learning is low on the list

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What should the BOE and County Council do to keep teachers?

I’d say:
No income tax for any teacher after x#of years
No property tax for teachers who choose to live in MC after 5 years within county and x#years of teaching

What else?

Why not just raise salaries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The majority of Central would not last 5 minutes in a classroom and my guess is the majority think that teaching is beneath them. Why do we have non educators running the show.

Force administrators to teach a class as part of their work day. Keep a foot in the classroom. They’ll keep teachers’ respect because we’ll know they can teach, and they’ll remember exactly how hard this job is. That’ll go a long way to enacting policies that actually make sense because they’ll affect administration, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of county employees with tuff jobs. Why are teachers on a pedestal? Fix the problems in mcps and parents step up and parent your kids.

But other employees get overtime pay. MCPS openly admits teachers work more than 40 hour weeks.

Most professionals work more than 40 hours.

Most professionals get paid enough to make ends meet. My kids qualified for free meals the first few years I was a teacher. Ridiculous.

Where was their other parent? Two teacher family makes good money.

He lives halfway across the country working in construction. I finally feel like I make a good salary but apparently not since my kid qualifies for a Pell grant. I’m grateful for the extra help but I don’t think 10+ yrs teaching with a Master’s degree should mean I demonstrate “exceptional financial need.”

[Anonymous]

That would keep admin from targeting our careers for ruin

[Anonymous]

In other countries, admin is called a head teacher. They actually still teach. That would go a long way toward keeping higher ups in touch with the realities of teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In other countries, admin is called a head teacher. They actually still teach. That would go a long way toward keeping higher ups in touch with the realities of teaching.

We have that here too. Just more layers of administration.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In other countries, admin is called a head teacher. They actually still teach. That would go a long way toward keeping higher ups in touch with the realities of teaching.

We have that here too. Just more layers of administration.

But we don’t have that here. If we did, school-based administrators would still be teachers with their own classes to teach.

I am a huge fan of this model. I don’t understand why we have a system in which non-teachers (including admin, who become detached and rusty) make all the decisions for teachers.