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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Believe it or not, staff actually like and benefit from professional development opportunities.[/quote]

We would benefit from hands on support, smaller class sizes, and more guidance counselors. Our school runs a food pantry, diaper bank, holiday toy extravaganza, dentists who visit our school, etc. and our issues are worse than ever. We give out school supplies and Chromebooks like free candy yet there is no accountability for maliciously destroying those materials, Chromebooks, library books, or anything really. Families and kids are receiving more and more for free (which I support) yet we are teaching them they have no personal accountability for anything. Want to throw your chromebook across the classroom? Cool, here’s another one! Want to throw away brand new markers, pencils, scissors and library books? Awesome, no problem. I support programs that help families climb out of poverty. However, at least 80% of the kids I directly work with have multiple pairs of $200 shoes, go on awesome vacations multiple times a year, and have parents that drive high end luxury cars. I’m not someone who thinks low income people should struggle or refuse to buy themselves nice things but it is eye opening to see how much money is spent by MCPS and OUR STUDENTS ARE STILL BELOW GRADE LEVEL IN MATH AND READING!

Behaviors are out of control. The demands placed on teachers have quadrupled over the past five years and has become unsustainable. We are unable to take personal leave because of the sub shortage and our paras, reading teachers and ELD (former ESOL) teachers are pulled almost everyday to cover classes. Yet the message from McKnight reassures is we are fully staffed. We have more teachers quitting and more required pd than we can handle. Central office is completely out of touch and allocating this amount of money on top of the various other CO positions is a slap in the face. Hire more paras. Pay them more, particularly those that were teachers or have advanced degrees. Hire more therapists to see students. Hire more counselors to oversee student issues, CPS, and deal with the 504 plans (creating, monitoring, updating). Hire more staff to help with behavior deescalation and coregulation. [/quote]

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