Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am going with ... OP was an April Fool’s Day joke! Let’s just all believe that and move on.

Haha! I like this. Good one, OP!

Not any funnier than “jokes” about Asians during this time when people are dry tinder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.

Well we are so sick of the IEP families complaining they want special treatment all of the time and do very little at home for their own kids. Public school is for the masses. You are lucky you get more free personalized care. This is a pandemic. YOU WORK WITH YOUR CHILD FOR ONCE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.

Well we are so sick of the IEP families complaining they want special treatment all of the time and do very little at home for their own kids. Public school is for the masses. You are lucky you get more free personalized care. This is a pandemic. YOU WORK WITH YOUR CHILD FOR ONCE.

It's required by federal law, actually. If your child had a disability qualifying for an IEP, then your child could get this "special treatment" too.

-parent of children without special needs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.

Well we are so sick of the IEP families complaining they want special treatment all of the time and do very little at home for their own kids. Public school is for the masses. You are lucky you get more free personalized care. This is a pandemic. YOU WORK WITH YOUR CHILD FOR ONCE.

I wouldn't wish you to be lucky here, but if your child had disability then he/she will get the special treatment as well.

Public school is for every single child and it includes child with disability as well.

- Parent of child in MCPS without any special need

[Anonymous]

This is not meant to bash anyone, but I am curious what the specials teachers are doing? I'm referring to PE, Art and Music teachers. I can't imagine that they are able to do any teaching right now so I'm wondering how they are being utilized. Since they are certified teachers, I'm guessing that they can be providing additional support to classroom teachers. I think that would be an effective way of giving students more small group instruction and support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.

Well we are so sick of the IEP families complaining they want special treatment all of the time and do very little at home for their own kids. Public school is for the masses. You are lucky you get more free personalized care. This is a pandemic. YOU WORK WITH YOUR CHILD FOR ONCE.

I wouldn't wish you to be lucky here, but if your child had disability then he/she will get the special treatment as well.

Public school is for every single child and it includes child with disability as well.

- Parent of child in MCPS without any special need

While I understand the requirement for the federal law, I think it is a poor rule to set that you hold up the rollout of an unprecedented new system for all students to ensure that the special accommodations for the small minority are resolved. It would be more helpful if there was a clause that within X amount of time (2 weeks? 3 weeks?) of the introduction of a new system that accommodations for special needs be available. Holding up the release of a system for 165K students for some 10% (or less) of the students is just not good. If you have a delay built in, then you can have different people working on the primary deployment and then after that, they can focus on fine-tuning the system for the special needs. It's not good to enforce the delay on everyone to meet the needs to make the system fully comprehensive on the first day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not meant to bash anyone, but I am curious what the specials teachers are doing? I'm referring to PE, Art and Music teachers. I can't imagine that they are able to do any teaching right now so I'm wondering how they are being utilized. Since they are certified teachers, I'm guessing that they can be providing additional support to classroom teachers. I think that would be an effective way of giving students more small group instruction and support.

I have one friend who is a MS music teacher. She sent out a note to her students and she was conducting individual zoom tutoring for her instrument students on an as scheduled basis. She had about a dozen or so students who took her up on it and she was tutoring them for about 1 hour a week. And still trying to take care of her family of four. The music teacher in our ES school had a special program going on for a week before the hiatus. Every grade was involved. She took a lot of photos and the first two weeks, she was organizing photos and uploading them to the school web-site and sending out messages to her students. She spent a lot of time as there are over 600 students in the school and all participated in the program. The art teacher in our ES school sent out a note with a list of optional home art projects to help keep kids occupied. These are just the ones that I know personally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not meant to bash anyone, but I am curious what the specials teachers are doing? I'm referring to PE, Art and Music teachers. I can't imagine that they are able to do any teaching right now so I'm wondering how they are being utilized. Since they are certified teachers, I'm guessing that they can be providing additional support to classroom teachers. I think that would be an effective way of giving students more small group instruction and support.

I have one friend who is a MS music teacher. She sent out a note to her students and she was conducting individual zoom tutoring for her instrument students on an as scheduled basis. She had about a dozen or so students who took her up on it and she was tutoring them for about 1 hour a week. And still trying to take care of her family of four. The music teacher in our ES school had a special program going on for a week before the hiatus. Every grade was involved. She took a lot of photos and the first two weeks, she was organizing photos and uploading them to the school web-site and sending out messages to her students. She spent a lot of time as there are over 600 students in the school and all participated in the program. The art teacher in our ES school sent out a note with a list of optional home art projects to help keep kids occupied. These are just the ones that I know personally.

The specials teachers at my school have to teach virtually, just like everyone else. They're going to be holding zoom meetings with some grade levels, or recording lessons for others on activities the kids can do at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you prefer they and their families go hungry? The teachers I know are thinking of their students and how to best teach and support them under the requirements of their districts. STFU

Stop being so violent. Why would someone come on here and tell someone to STFU. What is wrong with you?

NP
you can STFU too

+1

Another NP

[Anonymous]

Big fan of teachers and my kids’ elementary school in MCPS.

But would love someone to explain to me how three weeks of prep and eight hours in a normal working day translates to only 45 minutes of instruction for my elementary school kids.

Even if - and this is generous - the prep time for each 45 minute class is four hours, it still doesn’t make for a full time job.

As a parent and a tax payer and someone who is regularly working 10 hour days these days to keep food on the table, I’m really interested in how this adds up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.

Well we are so sick of the IEP families complaining they want special treatment all of the time and do very little at home for their own kids. Public school is for the masses. You are lucky you get more free personalized care. This is a pandemic. YOU WORK WITH YOUR CHILD FOR ONCE.

What a profoundly ignorant and nasty post. You have no idea what parents with kids with special needs go through, how much they do undertake with their kids at home, and the importance of schools in the mix. Shame on you.

[Anonymous]

Catholic School Teachers been teaching since day one of corona virus....no screwing around

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big fan of teachers and my kids’ elementary school in MCPS.

But would love someone to explain to me how three weeks of prep and eight hours in a normal working day translates to only 45 minutes of instruction for my elementary school kids.

Even if - and this is generous - the prep time for each 45 minute class is four hours, it still doesn’t make for a full time job.

As a parent and a tax payer and someone who is regularly working 10 hour days these days to keep food on the table, I’m really interested in how this adds up.

Ask the folks on Hungerford Drive. They decided. Not the teachers who actually work with students. Do you blame the doctors and nurses that they don’t have more ventilators?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big fan of teachers and my kids’ elementary school in MCPS.

But would love someone to explain to me how three weeks of prep and eight hours in a normal working day translates to only 45 minutes of instruction for my elementary school kids.

Even if - and this is generous - the prep time for each 45 minute class is four hours, it still doesn’t make for a full time job.

As a parent and a tax payer and someone who is regularly working 10 hour days these days to keep food on the table, I’m really interested in how this adds up.

Ask the folks on Hungerford Drive. They decided. Not the teachers who actually work with students. Do you blame the doctors and nurses that they don’t have more ventilators?

I’m not blaming anyone. I’m asking for insight. And no, being a elementary school teacher in MCPS working from home and teaching kids remotely is in NO way, shape, or form analogous to being a doctor or nurse in a hospital ICU contending with life or death in this pandemic. Stop the drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t be so clueless. You have NO idea what teachers are having to work through right now.
-A teacher and mother of two

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