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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For context, Marriott has hundreds of thousands of employees at thousands of locations worldwide and has 5,000 staff at headquarters. MCPS has 200 schools and change and 25,000 employees of which nearly 3,000 are at CO. Pure bloat.[/quote]

Not saying there isn't bloat, but it would be important to know how many of those "at CO" are the types of administrators we might consider bloat, vs. those who are organizationally seated at CO but either are at schools for instructional/operational support or are the lower-level CO-types whom we (or the bulk of us) tend to consider essential for the system to operate at scale.  The Merriott comparison may not be valid without that detail.[/quote]

Obviously, Marriott is not a public school system. We can all point to numerous important distinctions between these organizations. But it's telling Marriott can handle operating 9,000 locations across the world, subject to a variety of different laws and legal systems, with 5,000 staff at headquarters. And MCPS somehow needs almost 3,000 non-instructional staff assigned to CO for 210 schools? It strains credulity.

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But it's not 3000, it's been said numerous times many of those assigned to co are already in schools. [/quote]

What does it mean to be "in schools"? They're non instructional staff. What do they do?[/quote]

As said earlier in this thread, OTs, SLPs, Special Ed SWs, even the people who test newcomer students in schools, all these are assigned to CO when they are in multiple schools. [/quote]

Therapeutic Counselors as well. But by all means cut all of these "extra" CO positions. Just don't cry about your kids not receiving their services later on. [/quote]

I have had multiple Zoom calls with the "school-based" CO staff who support special education students. They are sitting in their homes and I am at school, staying late, to participate in these meetings.[/quote]

That’s how I felt when I had meetings with MVA people. They have their refrigerator in the background and their dog on their lap. I’m being called on the radio, the fire alarm is going off, and a kid is having a meltdown in my office. [/quote]

But, parents went crazy over the MVA closing.[/quote]

Well yeah, it disturbed their vibe when their students had to rejoin in-person school communities. [/quote]

And now the last two parents are going crazy because MCPS doesn't have the money or the teachers to bring back the failed program.[/quote]

The school has higher test scores than some in person.  By your logic all underperforming schools should be closed.  What is your obsession?[/quote]

What’s yours?  MVA didn’t exist prior to the pandemic and no promised it would exist forever following said pandemic.  There is not enough medically frail students to make it fiscally viable without it serving other student needs. And in that case it would need to include other teachers for select periods. [/quote]

That's why a state program would work better than a district-level program. Even then it might not have enough students, so states may need to partner on such a program.[/quote]

Ok, what would that look like?  Who would pay for it?  If you are talking about Virtual VA, that's not a state program.  It's a private company that gets paid per county so that would take away county funding.  A state option is not possible, or it would have happened AND who would pay for the private school?  You keep pushing something that makes no sense for anyone. [/quote]

Any way to implement it takes money away from schools. So you want to limit it to students that cannot go to school in-person.

There are three natural options for implementing it:
1) The state administers and operates a program using state funding (including funding that would ordinarily go to the counties)
2) The state administers a program through a contract to a private school, with a similar funding structure.
3) The state partners with one or more counties to operate a program, with cross-district enrollment available through IEP/504 accomodations as deemed necessary. Districts would pay similar to special education programs.[/quote]

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