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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How exactly have the teachers unions hurt MCPS?  The complaints I hear most often are curriculum 2.0 and AFAIK the union had nothing to do with that-- is that wrong?  Likewise, I would think the union would be happy if more teachers got hired-- [b]it's not their fault if class sizes are large (which seems at least partly because the county didn't anticipate the great recession and the migration of kids from private to public)[/b].[/quote]

Actually, I think it's a case of the county didn't plan well. They allowed the housing to be built, much of it high density condos, townhouses and apartments, but didn't plan for the growth in school populations. I also think they anticipated that the increased tax revenue from these new properties would pay for the needed improvements in infrastructure--including schools--to accommodate the growth. Obviously, that didn't happen and now their in a hole with overcrowded schools with no easy way to get out of it. And to be fair to the current MCPS and county council, these were issues many years in the making thought the responsibility lies with those in now in charge.  [/quote]

Schools that are over capacity are a different issue from class size. It's not as though the school system said, well, there are only three first-grade classrooms at this school, so there will only be three first grades at this school, even though there are 150 first-graders. The school adds teachers and puts the additional classes in portables.[/quote]

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