Do paraeducators have the least amount of training in the classroom?

Anonymous wrote:It’s ironic that someone who has at the top of her agenda an Antracist Audit oversees a school system who systematically discriminates against all protected classes. This is especially true for students with disabilities.

+100000000000 I would absolutely love to see an audit of how mcps does in terms of special needs students. They send the worst of the worst to teach and bus those kids. They keep children with high needs psychiatric illnesses in enormous public schools like northwest. Ieps are roundly ignored. Screening doesn't exists. Teachers have zero training unless they fight for a grant on their own. It's deplorable.

Anonymous wrote:My SIL agreed to he part of a similar study and she was found to treat boy students badly. She was given training. But she said just having it pointed out helped a lot and she has been cognizant of it ever since.

This was way before everybody was appalled by everything.everywhere.all.the.time.

My mom was told that she was less likely to call on boys when she was being evaluated (even when they had their hands up). It was useful info for her. It was not part of any official audit. Just regular teacher evals. I liked that at my kids schools they called on kids based on picking a popsicle stick out of a cup with kids names on them. Totally random.

It’s ironic that someone who has at the top of her agenda an Antracist Audit oversees a school system who systematically discriminates against all protected classes. This is especially true for students with disabilities.

I wish they would take all the money for new initiatives and use it towards having smaller classes. I think that would make the biggest difference

Anonymous wrote:Two years ago I would have thought this a fabulous idea. But as with everything else, implementation matters more than intent. Policy makers focus way too much on anecdote and not data. And they demonize individuals as racist instead of looking at ways to improve whole systems. So they don’t fix anything but also create resentment and distrust in the process.

+1 Be Well 360 is an example of a previous idea that went no where when it came to implementation.

The timing of Dr. McKnight’s survey is tone deaf in the wake of the most violent month in MCPS history and a huge surge of COVID cases among staff who feel like cannon fodder. MCPS has more immediate fires to put out right now.

Guns are in our schools, a student was shot and bystanders did nothing to help him, another student was found murdered, and a mass brawl at a MCPS basketball game. Teachers are still out with COVID (at least at our school). What’s Dr. McKnight’s plan on these issues?

Two years ago I would have thought this a fabulous idea. But as with everything else, implementation matters more than intent. Policy makers focus way too much on anecdote and not data. And they demonize individuals as racist instead of looking at ways to improve whole systems. So they don’t fix anything but also create resentment and distrust in the process.

I have a hard time taking this seriously from a school system that needlessly shut itself down for a year, and still won’t admit it was wrong to do so.

My SIL agreed to he part of a similar study and she was found to treat boy students badly. She was given training. But she said just having it pointed out helped a lot and she has been cognizant of it ever since.

This was way before everybody was appalled by everything.everywhere.all.the.time.

Anonymous wrote:How about anti- illiteracy. That would be an audit I'd love to see.

That's MAP-R

How about anti- illiteracy. That would be an audit I'd love to see.

If only the time, money and energy was put into additional educational resources for kids. Instead, the usual political pandering to a small number of people at the expense of everyone else.

Busy work for all the over paid Central Office staff

Anonymous wrote:What in the fresh hell is this exactly? https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220202-antiracistaudit.html

More ways to waste tax dollars and take the focus off teaching kids.

What in the fresh hell is this exactly? https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220202-antiracistaudit.html