The Sting of Budget Cuts

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Anonymous wrote:Virtual compacted math classes, virtual visits with an SLP.

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Strange how they shut down the mva but these are virtual. I’m surprised families agree to this.

Families were not given a choice.

You can fight this. If mcps closed the mva due to virtual being bad, and forcing families in person, they should provide it all in person.

MCPS shut down the MVA due to budget constraints not because it was bad. The virtual compact math classes save money since it means hiring fewer teachers. Families were not given a choice of if they would prefer virtual or in person compact math. The students will be in school but stuck learning from a remote math teacher. No parent would choose this.

We don’t know why it was shut down. It’s interesting the lies the boe tells. Parents should advocate for live teaching.

It was shut down overall due to budget constraints, with the poor performance and low enrollment particularly at the elementary level making MVA a low priority from a budget perspective.

And yes, I'm sure parents with kids in this situation will complain, but it is unlikely that schools will be able to do anything about it this year. The district already said they won't be removing any teachers/classrooms at tur start of the year, so more resources aren't going to magically free up.

They can’t staff all of their classes. Look at how they’re begging for a sub for the 1st grade drug dealer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virtual compacted math classes, virtual visits with an SLP.

+1

Strange how they shut down the mva but these are virtual. I’m surprised families agree to this.

Families were not given a choice.

You can fight this. If mcps closed the mva due to virtual being bad, and forcing families in person, they should provide it all in person.

MCPS shut down the MVA due to budget constraints not because it was bad. The virtual compact math classes save money since it means hiring fewer teachers. Families were not given a choice of if they would prefer virtual or in person compact math. The students will be in school but stuck learning from a remote math teacher. No parent would choose this.

We don’t know why it was shut down. It’s interesting the lies the boe tells. Parents should advocate for live teaching.

It was shut down overall due to budget constraints, with the poor performance and low enrollment particularly at the elementary level making MVA a low priority from a budget perspective.

And yes, I'm sure parents with kids in this situation will complain, but it is unlikely that schools will be able to do anything about it this year. The district already said they won't be removing any teachers/classrooms at tur start of the year, so more resources aren't going to magically free up.

They can’t staff all of their classes. Look at how they’re begging for a sub for the 1st grade drug dealer

They can, they aren't putting much effort into it. Here and other places people are saying they applied with qualifications and cannot get hired. No one wants to work for sub pay. Its what barely minimum wage, no benefits.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virtual compacted math classes, virtual visits with an SLP.

+1

Strange how they shut down the mva but these are virtual. I’m surprised families agree to this.

Families were not given a choice.

You can fight this. If mcps closed the mva due to virtual being bad, and forcing families in person, they should provide it all in person.

MCPS shut down the MVA due to budget constraints not because it was bad. The virtual compact math classes save money since it means hiring fewer teachers. Families were not given a choice of if they would prefer virtual or in person compact math. The students will be in school but stuck learning from a remote math teacher. No parent would choose this.

We don’t know why it was shut down. It’s interesting the lies the boe tells. Parents should advocate for live teaching.

It was shut down overall due to budget constraints, with the poor performance and low enrollment particularly at the elementary level making MVA a low priority from a budget perspective.

And yes, I'm sure parents with kids in this situation will complain, but it is unlikely that schools will be able to do anything about it this year. The district already said they won't be removing any teachers/classrooms at tur start of the year, so more resources aren't going to magically free up.

Again, show us the data. And, let us see the waitlist that they refused to take kids off of. Of course the numbers reduced as many just went till covid stabilitzed. You keep talking about low preformance but lets see the data from last year comparing it to data of simlar schools. Oh wait, you canot so you just decided it was poor preformance... Yes, we get you are BOE trying to cover up your bad leadership.

Yes, clearly a vast right-wing conspiracy targeted at you. Because reasons.

Then show the data.

This is probably someone at central office or BOE trying to justify their decision and behavior. Its intersting they will NOT release the data. Its very easy to pull up for someone with access.

It came up at the last Freemason meeting, but we decided against it.

No surprise...

[Anonymous]

MCPS Central Office, BOE and City Council is reaping what it sows.

I read MCPS Teachers are not State employees, which lowered morale. Over COVID, teachers were exposed to 30 germ-carrying kids in their overcapacity classrooms, which lowered morale. Six-figure administrators ballooned at the CO, which lowered morale. McKnight made it okay to hire just about anyone to teach with minimum standards, which lowered morale. I saw the resignation list after COVID and recognized a few very excellent teachers who left before 20 years during the McKnight nightmare, which lowered morale.

I saw this type of thing happen to a Public school district in another state years ago. The District eroded to the point it never bounced back fully and instead Private Schools opened to fill the gap. Once that happened, Public School became the school for 'poor kids' and the budgets were cut to the bare minimum, since academics weren't stressed, just keeping kids out of jail.

Teaching is a profession of dedication and ideals, but MCPS has lost it's way. I doubt they'll figure it out until CO staff start getting gutted by budget cuts? I just hope it's not too late by then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Central Office, BOE and City Council is reaping what it sows.

I read MCPS Teachers are not State employees, which lowered morale. Over COVID, teachers were exposed to 30 germ-carrying kids in their overcapacity classrooms, which lowered morale. Six-figure administrators ballooned at the CO, which lowered morale. McKnight made it okay to hire just about anyone to teach with minimum standards, which lowered morale. I saw the resignation list after COVID and recognized a few very excellent teachers who left before 20 years during the McKnight nightmare, which lowered morale.

I saw this type of thing happen to a Public school district in another state years ago. The District eroded to the point it never bounced back fully and instead Private Schools opened to fill the gap. Once that happened, Public School became the school for 'poor kids' and the budgets were cut to the bare minimum, since academics weren't stressed, just keeping kids out of jail.

Teaching is a profession of dedication and ideals, but MCPS has lost it's way. I doubt they'll figure it out until CO staff start getting gutted by budget cuts? I just hope it's not too late by then?

You could have made this post without using it to denigrate McKnight. She did not make it “okay” to just hire anyone. She and every other district made it okay to have reasonable people to serve as teachers in the classroom when they did not have enough certified teachers. You may not like that but you also wouldn’t appreciate classes being bigger than they are currently.

All professions require dedication and ideals. Without this your get poor results. CO staffs have taken cuts as well with some teams down to the bare bones or basically one group of staff serving the work of two teams.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS Central Office, BOE and City Council is reaping what it sows.

I read MCPS Teachers are not State employees, which lowered morale. Over COVID, teachers were exposed to 30 germ-carrying kids in their overcapacity classrooms, which lowered morale. Six-figure administrators ballooned at the CO, which lowered morale. McKnight made it okay to hire just about anyone to teach with minimum standards, which lowered morale. I saw the resignation list after COVID and recognized a few very excellent teachers who left before 20 years during the McKnight nightmare, which lowered morale.

I saw this type of thing happen to a Public school district in another state years ago. The District eroded to the point it never bounced back fully and instead Private Schools opened to fill the gap. Once that happened, Public School became the school for 'poor kids' and the budgets were cut to the bare minimum, since academics weren't stressed, just keeping kids out of jail.

Teaching is a profession of dedication and ideals, but MCPS has lost it's way. I doubt they'll figure it out until CO staff start getting gutted by budget cuts? I just hope it's not too late by then?

You could have made this post without using it to denigrate McKnight. She did not make it “okay” to just hire anyone. She and every other district made it okay to have reasonable people to serve as teachers in the classroom when they did not have enough certified teachers. You may not like that but you also wouldn’t appreciate classes being bigger than they are currently.

All professions require dedication and ideals. Without this your get poor results. CO staffs have taken cuts as well with some teams down to the bare bones or basically one group of staff serving the work of two teams.

You must work for central office. Their cuts were minimal. And, many of those jobs are probably unnecessary. They need to go to the bare bones given their financial mismangement. All those involved in finances and decisions that got us to where we are need to be terminated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Virtual compacted math classes, virtual visits with an SLP.

+1

Strange how they shut down the mva but these are virtual. I’m surprised families agree to this.

Families were not given a choice.

You can fight this. If mcps closed the mva due to virtual being bad, and forcing families in person, they should provide it all in person.

MCPS shut down the MVA due to budget constraints not because it was bad. The virtual compact math classes save money since it means hiring fewer teachers. Families were not given a choice of if they would prefer virtual or in person compact math. The students will be in school but stuck learning from a remote math teacher. No parent would choose this.

We don’t know why it was shut down. It’s interesting the lies the boe tells. Parents should advocate for live teaching.

It was shut down overall due to budget constraints, with the poor performance and low enrollment particularly at the elementary level making MVA a low priority from a budget perspective.

And yes, I'm sure parents with kids in this situation will complain, but it is unlikely that schools will be able to do anything about it this year. The district already said they won't be removing any teachers/classrooms at tur start of the year, so more resources aren't going to magically free up.

They can’t staff all of their classes. Look at how they’re begging for a sub for the 1st grade drug dealer

Central Office staff should step in and teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Virtual compacted math classes, virtual visits with an SLP.

+1

Strange how they shut down the mva but these are virtual. I’m surprised families agree to this.

Families were not given a choice.

You can fight this. If mcps closed the mva due to virtual being bad, and forcing families in person, they should provide it all in person.

MCPS shut down the MVA due to budget constraints not because it was bad. The virtual compact math classes save money since it means hiring fewer teachers. Families were not given a choice of if they would prefer virtual or in person compact math. The students will be in school but stuck learning from a remote math teacher. No parent would choose this.

We don’t know why it was shut down. It’s interesting the lies the boe tells. Parents should advocate for live teaching.

It was shut down overall due to budget constraints, with the poor performance and low enrollment particularly at the elementary level making MVA a low priority from a budget perspective.

And yes, I'm sure parents with kids in this situation will complain, but it is unlikely that schools will be able to do anything about it this year. The district already said they won't be removing any teachers/classrooms at tur start of the year, so more resources aren't going to magically free up.

They can’t staff all of their classes. Look at how they’re begging for a sub for the 1st grade drug dealer

Central Office staff should step in and teach.

+1

[Anonymous]

There's a reason why certain central staff employees would not be a great fit to teach, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS Central Office, BOE and City Council is reaping what it sows.

I read MCPS Teachers are not State employees, which lowered morale. Over COVID, teachers were exposed to 30 germ-carrying kids in their overcapacity classrooms, which lowered morale. Six-figure administrators ballooned at the CO, which lowered morale. McKnight made it okay to hire just about anyone to teach with minimum standards, which lowered morale. I saw the resignation list after COVID and recognized a few very excellent teachers who left before 20 years during the McKnight nightmare, which lowered morale.

I saw this type of thing happen to a Public school district in another state years ago. The District eroded to the point it never bounced back fully and instead Private Schools opened to fill the gap. Once that happened, Public School became the school for 'poor kids' and the budgets were cut to the bare minimum, since academics weren't stressed, just keeping kids out of jail.

Teaching is a profession of dedication and ideals, but MCPS has lost it's way. I doubt they'll figure it out until CO staff start getting gutted by budget cuts? I just hope it's not too late by then?

You could have made this post without using it to denigrate McKnight. She did not make it “okay” to just hire anyone. She and every other district made it okay to have reasonable people to serve as teachers in the classroom when they did not have enough certified teachers. You may not like that but you also wouldn’t appreciate classes being bigger than they are currently.

All professions require dedication and ideals. Without this your get poor results. CO staffs have taken cuts as well with some teams down to the bare bones or basically one group of staff serving the work of two teams.

As a former CO employee I can safely say many CO jobs are redundant and not well supervised!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason why certain central staff employees would not be a great fit to teach, though.

Agree. That is where all the incompetents go. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Central Office, BOE and City Council is reaping what it sows.

I read MCPS Teachers are not State employees, which lowered morale. Over COVID, teachers were exposed to 30 germ-carrying kids in their overcapacity classrooms, which lowered morale. Six-figure administrators ballooned at the CO, which lowered morale. McKnight made it okay to hire just about anyone to teach with minimum standards, which lowered morale. I saw the resignation list after COVID and recognized a few very excellent teachers who left before 20 years during the McKnight nightmare, which lowered morale.

I saw this type of thing happen to a Public school district in another state years ago. The District eroded to the point it never bounced back fully and instead Private Schools opened to fill the gap. Once that happened, Public School became the school for 'poor kids' and the budgets were cut to the bare minimum, since academics weren't stressed, just keeping kids out of jail.

Teaching is a profession of dedication and ideals, but MCPS has lost it's way. I doubt they'll figure it out until CO staff start getting gutted by budget cuts? I just hope it's not too late by then?

I don't think any of reasons you listed above are really the problems causing resignation. More important are: lack of consequences for misbehavior or non participation, cell phones, a downward spiral of teachers having to fill in for absences or vacancies in other positions, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Central Office, BOE and City Council is reaping what it sows.

I read MCPS Teachers are not State employees, which lowered morale. Over COVID, teachers were exposed to 30 germ-carrying kids in their overcapacity classrooms, which lowered morale. Six-figure administrators ballooned at the CO, which lowered morale. McKnight made it okay to hire just about anyone to teach with minimum standards, which lowered morale. I saw the resignation list after COVID and recognized a few very excellent teachers who left before 20 years during the McKnight nightmare, which lowered morale.

I saw this type of thing happen to a Public school district in another state years ago. The District eroded to the point it never bounced back fully and instead Private Schools opened to fill the gap. Once that happened, Public School became the school for 'poor kids' and the budgets were cut to the bare minimum, since academics weren't stressed, just keeping kids out of jail.

Teaching is a profession of dedication and ideals, but MCPS has lost it's way. I doubt they'll figure it out until CO staff start getting gutted by budget cuts? I just hope it's not too late by then?

please tell me you were joking. You could not be that dumb.

[Anonymous]

I often joke that central office is where you essentially fail upwards. It's essentially a reward, in some ways. But I think, with the current turnover cycle for principals in play, that we'll see a bit more chaos, as MCPS may be promoting people far too soon, who were not quite ready. Or else placing problematic employees back into contact with staff and students. 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I often joke that central office is where you essentially fail upwards. It's essentially a reward, in some ways. But I think, with the current turnover cycle for principals in play, that we'll see a bit more chaos, as MCPS may be promoting people far too soon, who were not quite ready. Or else placing problematic employees back into contact with staff and students. 🙄

Yes, they park problematic employees in CO -- employees who really should be fired.