New special Ed teachers from Philippines

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Anonymous wrote:University Schools of education across the country are struggling financially because enrollment in teacher education programs are at an all time low- American University announced this week that their SOE is closing. Johns Hopkins SOE is staffed w scores of adjuncts. Young people in US dont want to be teachers. Average teacher age in US, like nurses, 40s. What is going to happen in next few years as people retire out….

Most people going into teaching could not afford AU or the loans.

I’m not sure why you would think that. My DD is an ed major and we’re quite able to afford college… OOS, no less.

Exactly, it’s for kids of rich parents who can pay. Then there is everyone else who cannot.

And how is that different from other majors?

It’s a guaranteed job out of college. That’s not the case for many, many majors out there.

Exactly. And it still comes with a pension, sometimes a union(district dependent), and tenure. Or at least until folks decide all schools should be charter schools.

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I heard that some of the teachers from Philippines are struggling. They don't have the special education background needed.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that some of the teachers from Philippines are struggling. They don't have the special education background needed.

Yes and long commutes from housing to assigned schools.

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Special Education teachers across the county are struggling, period. There are not enough teachers to implement IEPs. There is not enough time in the day to write IEPs, attend meetings, gather paperwork, teach, plan, etc.

MCPS is going to be in big trouble if someone looks at what is happening.

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Speech therapists too. Many vacant positions (not all are posted on MCPS careers) and the use of virtual therapists.

Anonymous wrote:Special Education teachers across the county are struggling, period. There are not enough teachers to implement IEPs. There is not enough time in the day to write IEPs, attend meetings, gather paperwork, teach, plan, etc.

MCPS is going to be in big trouble if someone looks at what is happening.

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How have they adapted to the violence that mcps is known for?

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Anonymous wrote:How have they adapted to the violence that mcps is known for?

They got plenty of experience from the violence that Philippines is known for.

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Anonymous wrote:I spoke with one the other day. She was so impressed by MCPS and thought it was AMAZING!!

That's great and I hope she learns a lot from her visit, but she shouldn't be displacing primary staff.

No one displacing primary staff. MCPS cannot fill these positions lovally or even nationally, because no one wants them. Please read that last sentence again. They are bringing in teachers from overseas because no one here wants these jobs that many here are so great because: 10 month job, great pension, etc

It's BS. No one wants to teach here for many reasons, including crappy pay, bad administrators, delusional central office, and much more, but the worst are our kids today. They have no attention spans, no interest in learning, don't behave, and their parents make it worse

They are displacing primary staff, because MCPS is relying on them in solving the staffing problem.

With severe staffing shortages due to higher immigration, teacher resignations/retirements, as well as competition with more lucrative/less stressful professions, US school systems will continue to hire from from English-speaking countries like the Philippines. It really is as simple as that.

+1 Be grateful that MCPS is actually able to get qualified professional teachers to support special needs kids rather than having those positions vacant and the most vulnerable kids in the school system without instructors.

Loudoun did this several decades ago and it was a disaster for my family. The woman who became my kid's case manager was impossible to deal with. She refused to ever leave messages on the phone because she believed it was wrong for me, the mom, not to be home. It was impossible to set up meetings or communicate because she wouldn't do the simplest things to facilitate communication. She mostly lectured me about not being home. We only spoke two times and she never discussed my kid or anything IEP related. Her English was so bad, she couldn't communicate well and she mostly wanted to question me about why I wasn't home. When it became clear that she didn't understand anything about the process and wasn't scheduling an IEP meeting I complained and she was removed. I think they discontinued the program pretty quickly and I never met another parent with one of these "teachers". I think whoever supported this in the Phillipines exaggerated the teachers skills.

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I call bull re the pay. If these jobs paid enough, people would do them. They don't pay enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Has America churned, burned, and harassed all of our own human capital out of the profession that we have to outsource now? This will not make teaching more desirable but now we can open our dirty American secrets up to the international community about how dysfunction, predatory, and pathetic our education system is. Good luck teachers. Don't let the admin bastards get you down.

Yes, it sure has!

Signed,
Former teacher

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Anonymous wrote:How have they adapted to the violence that mcps is known for?

They got plenty of experience from the violence that Philippines is known for.

They're not equipped for American special needs children bc children don't behave like that in the Philippines.

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Anonymous wrote:I call bull re the pay. If these jobs paid enough, people would do them. They don't pay enough.

MCPS does not generate money they are given a budget. They are competing for teachers and therapist against all other districts and private industry. Even if they raise the salary in one place the dollar value has to be taken from somewhere else. I’m not saying that things can’t be cut (in fact some things are certainly going to be when we see this budget in December) but folks had better certainly understand that not everything can stay and what gets changed may be the thing you like, need or want. Special Education cost are increasing.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are telling their kids absolutely not to go into teaching. It has to do with behavior issues are not being addressed by administration and all the extra busy work/meetings/documentation that really are a waste of time.

I'm a special ed teacher and there's no way I'd encourage my own kids to become teachers. One of my DDs loves kids, is very patient, and would probably be great at it but I want her to do something else for the exact reasons the PP mentioned.

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Being a teacher sucks these days. MCPS is top heavy with useless people. Being a special education teacher is the worst. So much busy work. The system is broken

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Anonymous wrote:I call bull re the pay. If these jobs paid enough, people would do them. They don't pay enough.

Anyone who manages or owns a business knows that you have to pay people appropriately for the job. Mcps doesn't care about special needs students so they do the least required instead of the most.