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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been said sooo many times, but it’s obvious that central office positions should be the top priority when making these cuts. Are some positions necessary? Yes. Are the majority? Absolutely not.[/quote]

Central Office only has a few hundred positions even available to cut from.  There's no way they can take all of the 850+ job cuts from there.  Yes, they are wasteful, and they should probably cut more than the 30ish Central Office positions currently on the list, but they can probably feasibly only cut 100 or so more max, possibly less.[/quote]

Better 100 of them and leave 100 middle school positions intact. More actually because CO salaries are bloated compared to teachers.[/quote]

I don't disagree that more Central Office positions should be cut.  If these cuts go through, I will be right there fighting with you to get the BOE to insist that as many of the cuts be taken by Central Office as possible.

But people who are not panicking about these cuts (some of them instead celebrating them!) on the assumption that there is so much waste in MCPS Central Office that they can just absorb them that way, are deluding themselves.  Not just because Taylor and his team are unwilling to do that and the BOE are unwilling to force them to (although that is also true)-- but because even if they wanted to, it would only make a minor difference and save a small share of the school-based jobs.

If you do not want school-based jobs to be cut, you should contact County Council immediately and tell them not to make these cuts in funding.  That is really the only option.  The cuts are far too big to be absorbed by Central Office.

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