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Teachers are paid an annual salary, a very good one mind you, to do their job which is to satisfactorily teach our kids. Unions have destroyed this work ethic and have assembly lines the class room and turned teachers into little production units... units that pay the off the union handsomely. Yes many teachers are dedicated and get the job done but too many don’t. They simply aim to meet the minimal criteria established by the union. Of course on the administrative side, their sole job it seems is to not ensure our schools are well managed thus guaranteeing a good educational environment but making sure there is no friction jumping thru hoops and checking the boxes requisite for their 6 figure salary. [b]Time to return the schools to local parental control.[/b] And most of these costly and education diminishing nonsense will go away. Cut out the mandated regulations, cut administrative/‘executive’ staff by two thirds, have more money avail to hire and pay well only the best teachers and still have plenty left over to provide needed relief to over burdened tax payers.[/quote]

I agree. Let's start by returning the start and end dates on the school calendar to local control.[/quote]

Heck no! MCPS was going to start on Aug 21st this year if the state didn't take over. And first week off for Eid, then off for Labor Day another week,  then off for RH the next week and YK the week after that. That is almost a week off of school in the first month and cutting way into summer. Ridiculous. [/quote]

So, actually, let's [b]not[/b] return the schools to local control? [/quote]

Local as in city or city cluster control. The county is too big and too ineffective to run a school system. Consider when it snows in North county, school is closed the south county where there is no snow. Countless examples of waste, excess costs, inefficiencies and corruption. A school district should be limited in size to one or two high schools (with its feeders). [/quote]

Economy of scale is lost but economy of scale doesn’t ncessarily work in the government sector. Maybe for buying pencils but not managing policy, budgets and personnel.[/quote]

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