Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 11:17     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Anonymous wrote:Okay Steve Austin


LOL ya they need to get a life
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 10:54     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Anonymous wrote:We didn’t need the national guard to drive our kids this fall. The plan seems to have worked fairly well.

Indeed.

Some people just like ginning up trouble.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 09:08     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

We didn’t need the national guard to drive our kids this fall. The plan seems to have worked fairly well.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 08:28     Subject: Re:Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Anonymous wrote:Most systems brought students back to experience many more days in school in 2020 so those employees were actually doing their job.


Oh right mcps was alone in that too. Sure
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 08:17     Subject: Re:Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

The ones they paid, stayed. They still had attrition during 2020 summer and 2021 summer - they always do. Bus drivers have a high turnover rate normally. If they hadn’t kept them busy last year, they would also have list the long term drivers by forcing them to find new jobs.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 08:14     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Just like those pregnant women who go on paid maternity leave and then quit their jobs. Dang!
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 08:06     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

We have the same bus drivers we had pre-pandemic. So I’m thrilled they got paid and are back!
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 08:02     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

They were paid because they are under contract to pay them. That’s how contracted jobs work. Your privilege is highlighting your ignorance OP. Do better.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 07:59     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

I don’t know any drivers who were “sitting at home” after those first 2 weeks when everyone was SUPPOSED to be sitting at home.
They were:
Handing out meals at schools
Handing out chromebooks at schools
Delivering meals to the highest need neighborhoods
Staffing the tech distribution center at Gude Dr.
assisting with materials hand outs at schools

Enough with the blame. The driver shortage sucks, my students and I are impacted by it every day, but the drivers who left had their reasons and who are we to begrudge them that. Walk (drive in this case) a mile and see how long you last.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 07:51     Subject: Re:Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Most systems brought students back to experience many more days in school in 2020 so those employees were actually doing their job.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 06:52     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Mcps did what most / many systems dId nationwide . If they let them all go the situation would be much worse.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 06:38     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Anonymous wrote:Okay Steve Austin


Okay, Union bus driver!
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 05:56     Subject: Re:Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

FWIW, same is happening with the bus drivers at our private and with support staff at work.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 05:45     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

Okay Steve Austin
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2021 05:31     Subject: Why did MCPS pay bus drivers during the pandemic again?

...if they left for better paying jobs as soon as the pandemic ebbed. (Which is their right - just as it’s the County’s right to stop paying someone when you no longer need their services).

All the generosity, failed. Just wanted to circle back on MCPS’ argument for paying these folks to sit at home way back when and then trying to make them Zoom teachers (laughable) when they hit flack.

Just another sign MCPS’s 3 billion dollar budget is bloated and largely focused on the adults (jobs program).