MCPS faces Teacher shortage next year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

Aren't they the highest in the state now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

The BOE admitted last year that the school system has enough money, with all the extra Covid funds.

It’s not about the budget, or else MCPS wouldn’t be throwing money away the way it does at all the useless initiatives it implements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

Shouldn’t they re-prioritize ? Education has been a disaster for 2 years now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

Shouldn’t they re-prioritize ? Education has been a disaster for 2 years now.

You need to qualify your statement. It's been a disaster for parents who neglected their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

The BOE admitted last year that the school system has enough money, with all the extra Covid funds.

It’s not about the budget, or else MCPS wouldn’t be throwing money away the way it does at all the useless initiatives it implements.

It's funny you complain they don't communicate. They hire a communications firm. Then you complain they're wasting money... It really doesn't matter what they spend money on I'm sure you'll complain.

[Anonymous]

I’m kind of curious what’s so great about Sherwood and Damascus that teachers could not be incentivized to leave voluntarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m kind of curious what’s so great about Sherwood and Damascus that teachers could not be incentivized to leave voluntarily.

commute

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

Aren't they the highest in the state now?

I think Baltimore City is and I just read we need more than 700 teachers at this point. Years ago, it was not unusual to read headlines the week before school started about the district needing 600-800 teachers. So they increased the pay and teachers can move up quicker in the pay scale if they take courses, teach courses, etc. I looked at the pages of resignations in the city this year and even a high salary won't guarantee fewer vacancies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone that disputes the MCPS teacher shortage, just look at the drastic measures they are taking now to cover infilled positions. Since the state prevents any negotiation on class sizes, be prepared for HUGE classes all over the district.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-involuntary-teacher-transfer-staffing-shortage-employees-recruit-open-position-hiring-job-summer-break-mcps-maryland-challenges-surplus-deficit-new-year-back-to-school

The future of mcps doesn’t look very bright. I wonder why they don’t offer higher salaries to attract teachers

Budget? I’m not saying they can’t offer more, but they’d have to re-prioritize.

Aren't they the highest in the state now?

I think Baltimore City is and I just read we need more than 700 teachers at this point. Years ago, it was not unusual to read headlines the week before school started about the district needing 600-800 teachers. So they increased the pay and teachers can move up quicker in the pay scale if they take courses, teach courses, etc. I looked at the pages of resignations in the city this year and even a high salary won't guarantee fewer vacancies.

So they're the second highest, but sure some of those reforms might help.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think we are losing teachers to other systems as much as we are losing teachers to other jobs, or just retiring early. There was a post on here a while ago from someone saying she was leaving teaching to get an office job at like a PR firm or something like that. If you are in your 20s and can pivot over to one of the many office type jobs that pay decently where you don’t have to be on your feet talking 6 hours a day and dodging pencils and stuff kids throw at you and breathing in the smell of 35 sweaty teenagers all day long while they make fun of the way you dress or speak…..yeah, that’s attractive.
I don’t know if they are doing exit interviews and what people say about the pay versus other issues. I think they need to raise the pay 25%, fix the cap on laterals coming in from other systems (particularly given how many families move to this area from other locations—we are losing out on a lot of training spouse teachers!), and stop giving them lots of new curriculum directives without sufficient time to train on them or create new materials for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think we are losing teachers to other systems as much as we are losing teachers to other jobs, or just retiring early. There was a post on here a while ago from someone saying she was leaving teaching to get an office job at like a PR firm or something like that. If you are in your 20s and can pivot over to one of the many office type jobs that pay decently where you don’t have to be on your feet talking 6 hours a day and dodging pencils and stuff kids throw at you and breathing in the smell of 35 sweaty teenagers all day long while they make fun of the way you dress or speak…..yeah, that’s attractive.
I don’t know if they are doing exit interviews and what people say about the pay versus other issues. I think they need to raise the pay 25%, fix the cap on laterals coming in from other systems (particularly given how many families move to this area from other locations—we are losing out on a lot of training spouse teachers!), and stop giving them lots of new curriculum directives without sufficient time to train on them or create new materials for them.

I think the pandemic was tough on teachers, especially with the Karens constantly ridiculing them.

[Anonymous]

I think news reports such as this are unhelpful and don’t really paint a clear picture. Is it inconvenient that teachers are being moved around? Absolutely. But would you rather the district did nothing or waited until the end of August? Would people be happy if some schools were fully staffed with no classes above size limits but then other schools had dozens of classes well above class size or worse with no teacher at all.

There is a teacher shortage crises nationwide including across the DMV. So making it seem like the sky is falling in MCPS when this is really a much bigger issue is sort of skewed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m kind of curious what’s so great about Sherwood and Damascus that teachers could not be incentivized to leave voluntarily.

If they are an electives teacher they have likely spent years building their program. When you teach students for 4 years in a row you tend to plan 5 years at a time. They probably also recruited at the middle school levels to fill their programs. There is zero incentive to plan behind the current week if you’re an electives teacher that will just get moved every year and likely at the last minute.