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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The job has become unsustainable, so we can’t keep people in classrooms. And there are very few people willing to work nonstop hours for teacher pay.

What we are experiencing is the result of growing teacher expectations without the resources to pull the job off. [/quote]

Yet, when MCPS wants to do things like pay better wages or hire more people, the county council pulls on the purse strings, makes it insanely difficult to get the money, and then complains that it costs too much. And teachers are *still* overworked and unsupported.[/quote]

MCPS central office doesn't manage money well. They don't maintain buildings properly. As it turns out when you don't maintain buildings, then it becomes an emergency and much more expensive to fix. They built two new high schools and want even more money to add more spots at another high school but are leaving a bunch of other buildings empty. Their health insurance fund has been out of control for YEARS and they STILL haven't fixed the issue. This isn't happening in other agencies.

And all of this is in an environment where the County Council has raised tax rates multiple times to fund what they can. But funds are not unlimited. We are now in a situation where thousands of people, many empty nesters, are unemployed, potentially leaving the area during what would have been their highest earning years. Demanding more tax increases is not going to be the play.[/quote]
And on top of this uncertain economy, MCPS wants BOE to pass a poorly thought-out money pit program that will cost even more taxpayer money while not better educating the majority of our students (see their MCAP performance). How many more huge property tax hikes can we absorb? I don’t blame anybody fleeing this area.[/quote]

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