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[quote=Anonymous]This is MCPS in a nutshell. I’m a teacher and our chains are yanked every which way constantly, so none of this surprises me. My Outlook still freezes constantly and a single email can take me 10 minutes to write. That’s a great use of my time. It still hasn’t been fixed and our tech guy has just shrugged his shoulders and acts perplexed. The network in general either is incredibly slow or is flat out down multiple times per week.

MCPS didn’t actually expect thousands of teachers to actually sign up for summer training like we were told to at the time the window opened and the process took hours of our personal time (the window opened at 4:30pm)  and it was blamed on an outside vendor and Central Office took absolutely no responsibility. If I’m responsible for test scores for children who don’t have enough to eat, share a house with 2 other families  and have very little parental support, then MCPS can take responsibility for not planning correctly and having crappy infrastructure.

Teachers have been providing feedback on Curriculum 2.0 for years and it’s fallen on deaf ears. It took spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Central Office arrive at that conclusion. Teachers have spent hundreds and even thousands of their own money on supplemental materials because the 2.0 materials were worthless.

Are there any consequences for the people in charge of these blunders? Of course not. They sit in their offices and collect their paychecks whether they actually do their jobs or not. Meanwhile, the burden is completely put on teachers if the data isn’t as wonderful as Central Office and administration would like for it to be. We’re constantly asked what we could be doing more of or what we can be doing better. I’m so tired of this double standard. Central Office (and the ridiculous Code of Conduct) is making it actively HARDER to do our jobs, but the hammer only comes down on teachers. What a crock. 
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