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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS Central Office, BOE and City Council is reaping what it sows.

I read MCPS Teachers are not State employees, which lowered morale.  Over COVID, teachers were exposed to 30 germ-carrying kids in their overcapacity classrooms, which lowered morale.  Six-figure administrators ballooned at the CO, which lowered morale.  McKnight made it okay to hire just about anyone to teach with minimum standards, which lowered morale.  I saw the resignation list after COVID and recognized a few very excellent teachers who left before 20 years during the McKnight nightmare, which lowered morale.

I saw this type of thing happen to a Public school district in another state years ago.  The District eroded to the point it never bounced back fully and instead Private Schools opened to fill the gap.  Once that happened, Public School became the school for 'poor kids' and the budgets were cut to the bare minimum, since academics weren't stressed, just keeping kids out of jail.

Teaching is a profession of dedication and ideals, but MCPS has lost it's way. I doubt they'll figure it out until CO staff start getting gutted by budget cuts?  I just hope it's not too late by then?[/quote]

You could have made this post without using it to denigrate McKnight.  She did not make it “okay” to just hire anyone.  She and every other district made it okay to have reasonable people to serve as teachers in the classroom when they did not have enough certified teachers. You may not like that but you also wouldn’t appreciate classes being bigger than they are currently.

All professions require dedication and ideals.  Without this your get poor results. CO staffs have taken cuts as well with some teams down to the bare bones or basically one group of staff serving the work of two teams.[/quote]
As a former CO employee I can safely say many CO jobs are redundant and not well supervised![/quote]

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