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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Its not teacher bashing to object to funding employee raises in exchange for huge class sizes[/b], especially K-2. Its mismanagement of the budget.

In the eyes of mainstream parents, you give teachers a very bad reputation by fighting that your raise is more important than the children. How dedicated can you be if you think 30 kids in a K class with one teacher is just dandy as long as you get the biggest raise that you can get?

This raise is not going to attract the best and brightest to apply to MCPS. This raise is going to move money into the pockets of MCPS employees at the expense of the students. Its wrong. [/quote]

But this premise is incorrect. There is no funding employee raises in exchange for huge class sizes, here. The actual facts: class sizes in grades one and two will increase from 27 to 28 students at non-focus schools only and to 28 students in all grade three classes. For Grades 4 and 5 class size would increase from 29 to 30 at all schools.

http://www.mymcmedia.org/mcps-plan-for-funding-gap-includes-fewer-teachers-larger-class-size/

Now, you may say that these are huge class sizes. OK, but in that case, MCPS already had huge class sizes, even without the employee raises.[/quote]

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