Teachers not returning. MCPS to hire “Monitors” instead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the teachers can’t all just get vaccinated and go back to the classrooms?

They can, and the community knows it. That's why the emerging argument is that children must be vaccinated.

The only place I’ve seen that alleged argument emerging is on DCUM.

And *nothing* I’ve seen from MCPS indicates they’re even considering keeping non-ADA teachers home and sending kids into schools. Even the *worst* plans I’ve seen have teachers in classrooms, teaching over Zoom to both in-person and DL kids, with monitors to assist with the kids in class. The crappy part is that the in-person kids may sometimes be in another classroom because of cohorting concerns or class changes.

I’m not arguing that this model is all that much better, but the venom against “healthy teachers refusing to go into classrooms” is just weird and unfounded.

Me too, and no, don't tell me about the op ed in the Washington Post in December and what it did or didn't say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you socially distance 30 kids un one class? You fo t. You solit into two or more. So 1/2 will do dl ftom another classroom since they cant afford to hire double the teachers.

Except there will unlikely be 30 kids in a class to begin with, because only 50% chose the hybrid option, the rest opted to stay DL. Yes this likely varies by school/class but there will not be many scenarios where there would be 30 kids, and with hybrid that would be reduced even further. Have you not been paying attention at all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people start taking accountability for their lives? Look at what happens when society relies so much on schools to care for children. Wake up people!!!

Do you mean educate children?

Education is happening. People are just sick of their kids. They want the child care part of school back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you socially distance 30 kids un one class? You fo t. You solit into two or more. So 1/2 will do dl ftom another classroom since they cant afford to hire double the teachers.

Except there will unlikely be 30 kids in a class to begin with, because only 50% chose the hybrid option, the rest opted to stay DL. Yes this likely varies by school/class but there will not be many scenarios where there would be 30 kids, and with hybrid that would be reduced even further. Have you not been paying attention at all?

And per CDC guidelines, lots of schools will have trouble fitting 15 kids and their desks 6 feet apart with adult supervision in a single room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people start taking accountability for their lives? Look at what happens when society relies so much on schools to care for children. Wake up people!!!

Do you mean educate children?

Education is happening. People are just sick of their kids. They want the child care part of school back.

You are so unbelievably disrespectful of teachers it is appalling.
Kids also need structure and their friends. I know you won’t comprehend this argument so I’ll just stop it here. They’re going back. Get ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you socially distance 30 kids un one class? You fo t. You solit into two or more. So 1/2 will do dl ftom another classroom since they cant afford to hire double the teachers.

Except there will unlikely be 30 kids in a class to begin with, because only 50% chose the hybrid option, the rest opted to stay DL. Yes this likely varies by school/class but there will not be many scenarios where there would be 30 kids, and with hybrid that would be reduced even further. Have you not been paying attention at all?

It’s unlikely considering it that poster types like they are completely wasted. Everyone knows it will be half the kids at most. Which will make it easier.

[Anonymous]

If you think the kids are staying 6 feet apart drive by literally any private school in the area and you can see them rolling all over each other at recess. And guess what? No spike in cases!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with race. The plan is for teachers to go back but they will need help and the class sizes in person have to stay very low so the only way to do that is split up groups. We have 35 students in our MS classes.

Why is your life more important than a teacher or monitors life? That is the real question. You don't care about either. Monitors will be paraprofessionals who are always under paid.

It absolutely does have to do with race. And you know it. This looks really bad. MCPS should be ashamed. Sending poor minorities in to do the job of mostly white well to do teachers. Because the teachers are too special to return like all of the other teachers are doing across the country. Embarrassing and shameful!

Why do you think this is about race? Paras, cafeteria monitors, one to one aides aren't generally one race,in fact most are white. If they are hiring, and people want the jobs, what do you care? This has nothing to do with privilege.

[Anonymous]

THIS entire thread is just disinformation based on someone who clearly has a political bias, is a "reopen" troll, and is looking to start trouble.
Or- OP is just incredibly stupid and cannot comprehend what the situation is.
Or all of the above.

Don't feed this troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people start taking accountability for their lives? Look at what happens when society relies so much on schools to care for children. Wake up people!!!

Do you mean educate children?

Education is happening. People are just sick of their kids. They want the child care part of school back.

You are out of touch and accusing parents of not wanting to be around their kids is disgusting. I know so people who are modestly paid nurses, EMTs, and TEACHERS who cannot stay at home with kids and are struggling with childcare. You must live in a bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:THIS entire thread is just disinformation based on someone who clearly has a political bias, is a "reopen" troll, and is looking to start trouble.
Or- OP is just incredibly stupid and cannot comprehend what the situation is.
Or all of the above.

Don't feed this troll.

+1
Should be deleted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THIS entire thread is just disinformation based on someone who clearly has a political bias, is a "reopen" troll, and is looking to start trouble.
Or- OP is just incredibly stupid and cannot comprehend what the situation is.
Or all of the above.

Don't feed this troll.

+1
Should be deleted.

Although I’m pretty sure it’s the opposite of a re-open troll. This is an argument to stay closed for OP.

[Anonymous]

If this is what it takes to get kids in school, I am OK with it. At least it means that perhaps some kids would be in school before June of 2021.

Last summer, I remember thinking that perhaps, to get kids back in school, they could hire new college grads who were looking for jobs, and those new grads could serve as teachers for 1 year. Meanwhile, the teachers who wanted to opt out could take a year's leave of absence (unpaid). Granted, they would not have been experienced teachers, but I still think it would have been better than virtual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people start taking accountability for their lives? Look at what happens when society relies so much on schools to care for children. Wake up people!!!

Do you mean educate children?

Education is happening. People are just sick of their kids. They want the child care part of school back.

Yeah, probably that's a huge part of it, because for a lot of families, having young kids at home all day learning remotely is untenable. In our school, a huge portion of our population has parents who can't work from home. We've got older siblings (i.e. 4th graders) who can't focus on their zoom class because they have to help their younger siblings. We've got kids who need help and direct, engaged supervision, and parents who don't have the luxury of being able to provide it. These families don't have a ton of disposable income to lose by having a parent quit their job - they're single parent households, households that are already struggling. Having a place for their kids to go safely and get support for DL is going to be a godsend for them.

This is how we, as a society, set up our economy and our educational system. We don't provide a social safety net. We aren't willing to pay people to stay home, to give them affordable child care, to provide health care, to meet their basic needs so that they don't have to choose between staying home and keeping their homes. We created a system where we have to rely on schools both to educate and provide child care, because we don't give a lot of families another option.

So, you want to keep people from relying on schools to provide child care? Pass a living minimum wage. Support healthcare for all. Pay people to stay home -- direct payments that are enough to keep families fed and in their homes. But don't set up a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" system and then blame people for doing what they need to do to survive in that system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people start taking accountability for their lives? Look at what happens when society relies so much on schools to care for children. Wake up people!!!

Do you mean educate children?

Education is happening. People are just sick of their kids. They want the child care part of school back.

You are out of touch and accusing parents of not wanting to be around their kids is disgusting. I know so people who are modestly paid nurses, EMTs, and TEACHERS who cannot stay at home with kids and are struggling with childcare. You must live in a bubble.

The people I know who are fighting the hardest for this have never spent more than a week alone with their kids. We are going on a year and they cannot stand it anymore. They'll send them back whatever the setup is.