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[quote=Anonymous]As a 2nd career educator, I must ask those debating on this forum to please understand our core issues are really not about pay. Our dear leaders at MCPS feel this is the easiest way to recruit and retain teachers is to throw a few grand at us. It's actually quite insulting in my personal opinion. Of course, I cannot speak for all, but MOST of us are fine with the pay when we onboard (it's not exactly a surprise since it's publically posted). What we DO have a problem with are the working conditions.  We had no idea what it would be like, especially after COVID. The hours to get things prepared, while taking away contracted planning time is pretty serious.  It causes extreme burnout and apathy when you are constantly worked to the bone. It's a very high-stress environment day in and day out.  It's going to take a lot more than pay to retain teachers. I can absolutely tell you as a working professional, I definitely harbored some resentment towards educators with 15-20+ years plus. They made so much more money than me, but I was doing probably 10x the work to get where they already are.  It's counterintuitive for each new educator to have to reinvent the wheel for every class they teach when the person before them had to do the same thing...so in and so forth. The curriculum they provide is not very good quality because they write it in house with educators who have little to no experience in curriculum writing. (I know because I was one of them). They should just purchase a standard-aligned, well-vetted, engaging curriculum that is universal across the district.  Right now, it's a terrible system that is designed to break people. And I am saying this as someone with a STEM degree who worked for a very highly regarded research institute.  I know my subject matter very very well. But the workload is more than I have ever experienced in my entire life (even during grant season). They really need to support early career educators much more than they do now (which is barely).  [/quote]

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