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[quote=Anonymous]I think the vitriol against teachers is disgusting and terrifying.  More than half of our teachers are amazing, and 90+ percent are trying really hard.  I’ve been in the work world long enough to know those are amazing numbers—most fields have a much higher number of people who are lazy, not good at their jobs, etc.

I agree with PP teacher who said that central admin makes teachers jobs much harder than they need to be with the constant curriculum changes.  They need to involve teachers much more in this process.  Find teachers who want summer jobs and pay them to figure this out.  Then pay teachers to come back early and actually get trained on it.   Unfortunately, at least in Mcps, there were bad curriculum choices made 10 years ago and they are still trying to course correct so it’s been a decade of so of upheaval.

We need a fundamental shift in thinking in this country to invest much more in k-12 education, including much greater incentives for special educators to attract more of them so they can keep the special Ed class size low and double up on teachers in those classrooms so the teachers can have a break.  Any mom of a kid with special needs knows that taking care of a dozen kids with special needs every day is basically impossible.  If the special Ed classrooms weren’t such a disaster, people wouldn’t fight to keep their kids out of them.  And all teachers should be trained on techniques for dealing with special needs so that they can better manage the kids in their class who are maybe borderline.

The pandemic highlighted the fact that the public education system had no give in its design.  Schools are packed to the brim so no room to distance.  Not enough extra teachers so no one to fill kn when people get sick.  Etc etc.  MCPS for instance seems to have an attitude that it won’t buy any property down county— they will just stack extra floors onto property they already have, or build over the playgrounds.  The county needs to acknowledge they need more schools with fewer kids in each building and buy property even though it’s expensive.  As a society we need to throw some smart money at this problem to decrease school size and decrease class size and increase the number of support professionals (therapists, trained aides, etc.) in schools.  But it’s going to require a major shift in thinking and unfortunately republicans would prefer a different shift — towards vouchers for private schools which will lead us down a path towards places like Mexico where rich and MC kids mostly go to private schools for k12, and poor kids get very little education.  It’s not the formula for a successful democracy.
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