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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is ridiculous. Everyone familiar with MCPS knows that big cost drivers are not teachers but the ever growing and expanding number of administrators in the Central Office making over $200k.

The other area where MCPS wastes a lot of money is with consulting contracts. Some of these expensive consultants are MCPS central office retirees.

People have been begging for an audit of MCPS for years. If Friedson thinks that a 2 hour meeting to get a kindergarten level understanding of costs areas is sufficient then he’s only fooling himself. That guy is a low IQ idiot. [/quote]

It's perfectly rational to express concern about the number of administrative positions, but they make up a small fraction of the budget. They don't even make up that much of the increase. It's teacher salaries and benefits.[/quote]
All I know is that the council has repeatedly specifically funded more teaching positions to reduce class sizes and more in-school support positions like counselors and MCPS has in return reprogrammed these positions to central office administrators. The bloat is serious and it’s real. Meanwhile, as MCPSs budget demands keep going up and up,
 [b]parents are being asked to provide more and more [/b]direct financial support to classrooms. Before we left MCPS, I was spending about $1000 per year to a combination of PTA, classroom supplies and Amazon wish lists. And I wasn’t alone. It’s not normal to run a school system with a multi-billion operating budget like this. [/quote]

It is absolutely horrific what is going on. Teachers hear another teacher got something, and now that department asks for things that should be fixed or replaced by MCPS (Central office). For example, a Smart Board that is an essential part of teaching in classrooms these days..but now families are being asked to fund for the board?? WTF. Council - are you understanding this? Dr.Taylor - do you know and understand? Or when they build schools and don't place fans in the gyms? With the heat amd weather nowadays, you would think fans are a must in gyms!! If they couldn't install ceiling fans, MCPS should be buying those HUGE fans to be used in the gyms or in classrooms that are in old school buildings, not coming from PTA![/quote]

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