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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ALL teachers don't get paid until September, it takes forever to get that first paycheck, we all know this. MCPS posts pay schedules every year.

I feel for them but how is it different for anyone else who moves somewhere new for a job? Unless the company is very wealthy, they typically wouldn't pay for your furniture and living expenses?

Many American born teachers who work for MCPS can't even afford to live in the county, I don't think MCPS is doing anything for them either.

Am I missing something in your post?[/quote]

Paying a new employee in a salaried position who is moving for the job a moving stipend is common.

Recruiting teachers from outside the US to come here and then not providing adequate support to help them get established in one of the nation’s wealthiest areas before they begin work is not the same as teachers more broadly not being paid a living wage by MCPS, which is also true, and also sucks. If the county can’t hire local teachers for jobs here no one wants and they had to literally recruit outside the country, they have a greater responsibility as the employer to support these new employees and a modest moving stipend is reasonable and appropriate since they (allegedly)  didn’t allow them to bring housemates.

You really want your child’s special ed teacher not having sheets or furniture? [/quote]

I am glad I read this and other posts.  We were thinking of a move for a job to MCPS or DC (private) as we currently live in a very high performing public school system.  One of my children has a special ed teacher and they actually changed teachers because the first one wasn’t working.  They are also very qualified and experienced.  
 
I don’t know how I feel about taxpayer money going to pay for extras for international teachers but not US ones. Don’t you think we would have more qualified teachers if we offered one or two years of an apartment share or something when they were first hired? MCPS should have maybe thought this through more?

I know of people who have hired au pairs and a close family member worked in graduate higher education where a large % are international students.  A large majority try and stay here either by marriage (getting pregnant) or trying game the system after their F-1 or OPT have ended.  I understanding wanting to live and work abroad, I did that for a few years, but then I came back to the US and settled home.  [/quote]

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