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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This link was buried in another thread, but I’ve been fascinated by the results and thought others would be as well.

https://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php

I think it’s interesting to compare the teacher results with public perception. I’ve always felt my children’s elementary school seemed quite happy (Beverly Farms) and the results came out that way. It was very different from other Hoover schools like Wayside which I knew parents have been worried about.

See anything interesting?

They seemed more concerned with race than academics. In fact, it isn't concerned with academics or education at all.

+1 yeah 6 of the 20 questions had to do with race. None really had to do with academics or education. If you look back at older school climate surveys before this superintendent, there were questions asking if teachers had the materials and resources they needed, how is morale, whether the building was clean, etc. This survey is not an improvement.

McKnight has a savior complex, but in the end, she is failing to meet the academic needs of students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This link was buried in another thread, but I’ve been fascinated by the results and thought others would be as well.

https://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php

I think it’s interesting to compare the teacher results with public perception. I’ve always felt my children’s elementary school seemed quite happy (Beverly Farms) and the results came out that way. It was very different from other Hoover schools like Wayside which I knew parents have been worried about.

See anything interesting?

They seemed more concerned with race than academics. In fact, it isn't concerned with academics or education at all.

+1 yeah 6 of the 20 questions had to do with race. None really had to do with academics or education. If you look back at older school climate surveys before this superintendent, there were questions asking if teachers had the materials and resources they needed, how is morale, whether the building was clean, etc. This survey is not an improvement.

this is a bad sign that they are just don't care about education anymore and just wish to create SJ issues where there are none

Anonymous wrote:Because MCPS leadership doesn’t do a good job listening to teachers. They smile when they stop by, but they spend the majority of their time dealing with the state or talking about equity. They are not involved with day to day school problems and honestly don’t seem to care that much.

MCPS leadership knows the public lacks respect for teachers so they get more bang for their buck servicing parents and pundits.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This link was buried in another thread, but I’ve been fascinated by the results and thought others would be as well.

https://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php

I think it’s interesting to compare the teacher results with public perception. I’ve always felt my children’s elementary school seemed quite happy (Beverly Farms) and the results came out that way. It was very different from other Hoover schools like Wayside which I knew parents have been worried about.

See anything interesting?

They seemed more concerned with race than academics. In fact, it isn't concerned with academics or education at all.

+1 yeah 6 of the 20 questions had to do with race. None really had to do with academics or education. If you look back at older school climate surveys before this superintendent, there were questions asking if teachers had the materials and resources they needed, how is morale, whether the building was clean, etc. This survey is not an improvement.

Anonymous wrote:This link was buried in another thread, but I’ve been fascinated by the results and thought others would be as well.

https://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php

I think it’s interesting to compare the teacher results with public perception. I’ve always felt my children’s elementary school seemed quite happy (Beverly Farms) and the results came out that way. It was very different from other Hoover schools like Wayside which I knew parents have been worried about.

See anything interesting?

They seemed more concerned with race than academics. In fact, it isn't concerned with academics or education at all.

Anonymous wrote:I just checked Farquar, where Biedelman was. 40.6% of staff responded “not at all” to “How positive is the tone that school leaders set for the culture of the school?”

How bizarre to promote the person responsible for leadership.

He was often MIA in the building. There are other people actually running the school day to day. They are still in these roles running everything behind the scenes.

When do we teachers have to admit that the system is set up for us to manulipulate the numbers to make our schools and student behavior look much better than in reality and alot of times admin bullies us teachers for more and more past our contracted hours and classroom sizes that further degrade us before they discard teachers and blame us for trying.

Anonymous wrote:I just checked Farquar, where Biedelman was. 40.6% of staff responded “not at all” to “How positive is the tone that school leaders set for the culture of the school?”

How bizarre to promote the person responsible for leadership.

+1 the promotion was gross negligence on McKnight's part. The notion it's appropriate for her to just rubber stamp promotions instead of demanding justification is absurd.

Because MCPS leadership doesn’t do a good job listening to teachers. They smile when they stop by, but they spend the majority of their time dealing with the state or talking about equity. They are not involved with day to day school problems and honestly don’t seem to care that much.

I just checked Farquar, where Biedelman was. 40.6% of staff responded “not at all” to “How positive is the tone that school leaders set for the culture of the school?”

How bizarre to promote the person responsible for leadership.

Parents can support elementary teachers by giving their kids consequences at home for poor behavior and believe the teachers. I love my job but I hate that some kids are out of control and parents are dismissive/ignore us; they claim their child must have learned the behavior from someone else and take zero ownership for their kids attitudes and behavior. Their kids are entitled and the total gentle parenting approach is NOT working. That and they are total helicopter parents who email and bug me constantly, even though their child is the one instigating and creating problems. Kids behavior and work habits are the worst I have ever seen in my 15 years of teaching.

25% of elementary staff feel almost never feel excited about school and a little less than this feel almost never hopeful about school.

To me, those are shocking numbers.

What are some things we can positively do to help support our elementary staff? What are some positive things we can encourage the BOE / central office to put in place to support our elementary staff?

This is interesting, thank you! I'm curious what parents have been worried about Wayside? My kids currently go to Wayside (4th grade) because we heard great things, and personally I have been underwhelmed, so just wondering what other parents have beeng saying. I'm seriously considering private for middle school, but I have also heard Hoover is much better. Not sure ho much truth there is in that.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing, OP!

For my kids' Bethesda-area high school and middle school, all that's available for this year are the staff surveys. Apparently teachers feel reasonably safe at work, but are decidedly "meh" on race and equity-related efforts - they don't find them particularly helpful. Predictably, the middle school staff finds students slightly less respectful than the high school staff

This link was buried in another thread, but I’ve been fascinated by the results and thought others would be as well.

https://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php

I think it’s interesting to compare the teacher results with public perception. I’ve always felt my children’s elementary school seemed quite happy (Beverly Farms) and the results came out that way. It was very different from other Hoover schools like Wayside which I knew parents have been worried about.

See anything interesting?