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[quote=Anonymous]Its easy to make a value judgement that everyone should make more money but the issue isn't whether MCPS employees just should make more money. The issue is that whether paying MCPS employees more money is more important than other educational funding.

MCPS loses all credibility for me when they constantly trade class size ratios to give themselves raises. When those raises are beyond the rest of the county AND surrounding areas, it just furthers the point that MCPS can not be trusted as the steward of its own budget. Educational priorities should be addressed BEFORE the employees give themselves another raise. The last 5% raise that MCPS recently gave themselves raised class sizes again. The caps aren't even respected but seen as "guidelines". High performing schools have up to 30 kids in K-5 classes. One teacher, no aide and 30 young kids with the way MCPS approaches instruction is horrible. The kids basically have free time disguised as independent study constantly, very little feedback from their teacher, and are being robbed of a good education. I can hire a sitter to provide custodial oversight for my child while my child reads on their own or does computer instruction. School should be engaging and interactive at this age.

The constant prioritization of employees over student needs to stop. [/quote]

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