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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He cut the composition assistants - the ones helping with college essays, with in-class writing, the ones making well below the poverty level. He cut social workers and psychologists. He is on his way to trying to outsource college & career counseling to Worksource Montgomery, a for-profit company.

This is DOGE, MCPS edition.

Taylor is sneaky AF. He didn’t touch any MCEA or teacher positions because he knew parents would mutiny. He went after all sorts of tiny line items on the budget that he counted on people not understanding.

The students in my building deserve college counseling. They deserve social workers. They deserve writing help.

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Did he say that the college and career counseling would be outsource to Worksource Montgomery? Or is this just speculation?[/quote]

This is already happening. Because the state blueprint for Maryland’s future mandates a certain number of career counseling hours per graduate, MCPS hired WSM a few years ago. Rolled it out with a fancy consultant and gave tiny stipends to teachers to be career “champions” in the school buildings “supporting” this work of having “career conversations” with students.

This already a public/private partnership situation in middle and high schools for career counseling. If you don’t work for the schools you probably wouldn’t know this.

The MCPS program is called MoCo CAP and involved a career coach in all buildings- who is paid by WSM, not MCPS.

So Taylor unloaded the college and career counselors, with their health insurance and benefits and union protection, and is counting on this company’s partnership with MCPS to carry the day. He is outsourcing college counseling to a company plain and simple.

The writing has been on the wall for a while, as these WSM coaches have entered buildings basically doing what the college and career people were already doing. Sitting in the offices next to them, duplicating their work in some instances.

Plus, there are layers and layers of highly paid people up in central office “supporting” this public/private effort. Look at the org chart for career stuff at central office and you’ll see.

That’s why I call it DOGE. It feels similar.[/quote]

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