Reply to 5/12 County Council Meeting -- Gutting MCPS Budget Request to the Tune of $180M

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mcps balloon has popped. [/quote]

Sadly this will be the downfall of public education in this area. County council failing to recognize that if you don’t pay teachers their COLA or steps, while raising insurance premiums with worse coverage, teachers will leave. It won’t be the teachers within 5 or 7 years of retiring, but those that are only five or seven years into teaching, the brightest and most capable ones won’t see the value in staying. You can’t take home less money each year and still pay the bills when inflation is skyrocketing.

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This has been happening to federal employees since 2009. We gave up COLAs for several years and received tiny ones while our health care increases by double digits each year. [/quote]

This is why teachers union and the school system gets a bad rap. It's not just federal employees but private sector workers that have felt the pinch these past years of cost of living, taxes, and insurance increases while facing salary stagnation. For the superintendent and teacher's union to act like an increase in budget (but not the amount of increase they want) is catastrophic to education and everyone should write the county council to increase revenue (which reads as increase taxes) is tone deaf. There's other ways to decrease spending that need to be looked at. [/quote]

But federal employees generally make more money than teachers. I have a friend who is essentially an Admin Assistant at the FDA. She makes more than most Principals. [/quote]

She is lying.[/quote]

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