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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Examples: no working photocopier for a school of 1500 for the bulk of two days. Manual taking of roll. Should be done by scanning. Record-keeping/checking done manually. This should all be available electronically. Reports that can be computer generated and are instead done manually. Five different ways to get kids to school and home. More and more time spent on useless PD and meetings. [/quote]

What do you think should have been done differently with the photocopier?[/quote]

This has Got to be a school board member asking such a stupid question.[/quote]

Nope, not a school board member. It's a serious question. Did the copier break down or was there some other problem? If it did break down, when was the service company contacted? Why did it take them two days to come out and fix it? What would it take for the school to get a quicker response from the service company?[/quote]

I'm not OP but I'm a teacher in MCPS and the copier issue is a real one. Ours is out of service quite frequently and even when you put in a work order right away it takes them days to come out to fix it. I don't know why it takes them days but it does. I put in a work order a week ago to fix a printer that's not working and nobody has come to fix that either. I will put in a second work order today but that takes time as well. My classroom is downstairs and the only working printer I can print to is upstairs. That was a huge time waste when I was setting up my classroom.  I went in during the summer and spent 2 hours of my time unjamming the copier when I only needed 40 copies of a document. The amount of time spent on things like printing and copying due to malfunctioning equipment  is mind boggling and extremely inefficient. [/quote]

I hear things like this a lot from the teachers I'm friends with. It seems crazy to me that there's so many high salaries at the central office level when teachers don't have access to the basic equipment they need to do their jobs. Needing to go to a different level of the school to print or to pick up what you've printed is a huge waste of time. Our schools should have the functioning equipment teachers need to be able to do their jobs. [/quote]

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