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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]Sorry - tried posting the link because issue has already been discussed.

This is a news report about the proposed budget cuts:

https://wjla.com/amp/news/local/montgomery-county-public-schools-fy-23-proposed-budget-cuts-teacher-counselor-positions[/quote]
There's attrition every year. What teachers are getting pink slips?[/quote]

Teachers spoke up in the other thread.[/quote]
I just see openings and still more openings.[/quote]

For the teachers who lost their positions, they can either choose to leave the school system (for a school system that values their talents and experience) or to apply for another position that most likely is at another school. Very unsettling while you are working to close out the current school year.[/quote]

I'm sure that is unsettling, but next year's allocated positions are based on enrollment projections. If their school's enrollment is decreasing, and another school is is need of more teachers, I can see why there would need to be some shifting of people, as uncomfortable as that may be.[/quote]

Perhaps MCPS should looking at the delivery. It’s unsettling to be given notice that your job is cut with no direct offer of a similar position. It’s distressing to have a commute double with today’s gas prices and the increase expense comes out of your teaching salary. [/quote]

It's just as likely that your commute would be cut which is a savings with today's gas prices. Why do you want to always assume the worst?[/quote]

Not that PP, but in my case I can tell you that my commute DID double. That happened once, and I was out after that year. I don't want to work somewhere where it doesn't pay to put down roots and build relationships with colleagues and families, let alone initiate programming outside your classroom that you won't be able to continue. It's not just the commute. It's feeling like a cog in a wheel. It's feeling dispensable, dismissed, even if your own school doesn't want to lose you. There has to be a better way. The delivery certainly is part of it.[/quote]
MCPS employees staff, not individual schools. MCPS can and does move staff around as needed. I'm an itinerant employee - I know![/quote]

Dr. McKnight needs to update the culture of MCPS staffing practices. Treating teachers - the most valuable resource to the school system - as a disposable employee affects her recruitment efforts as well as her efforts to retain experienced teachers. It’s arrogant for Central Office to think well we are going to cut this staff member at this school without reaching out to that employee to work out a reasonable alternative position. Sure, MCPS can cut a position and place the burden on the teacher to look elsewhere for another job, but how well is that approach working for the school system’s reputation and staff retention?

On boarding brand new employees with zero experience include signing bonuses. Experience teachers can be left feeling hurt and unappreciated when their jobs are cut while signing bonuses entice them to go elsewhere.

Dr. McKnight needs to fix what is broken in house before wasting tax dollars traveling out of state under the guise of recruitment.[/quote]

I agree teachers are a valuable resource, BUT it was n ever established that her travel was a waste of anything. That's just some random conclusion the OP jumped to without a shred of evidence. [/quote]

This school graduates 50 teachers a year.  What was the purpose of the trip?[/quote]

Seems pretty clear. Recruiting is a big deal.[/quote]

She has recruiters so she needs to fire and replace them. [/quote]

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