Anonymous
11/21/2023 15:38
Subject: BOE Communications Director
Anonymous wrote:I was just looking through Careers, and saw this job advertised. Is this a new role? Do we really need ANOTHER employee not working with students.
To be fair, I do think the BOE as part-time employees have way too much on their plate. However, I don’t feel positive thoughts about another fill time position going just toward communications (salary is at the administrator level).
So, is this new? Or is someone leaving? How can we get more teachers and less office bloat?
“I think a lot of the public, the voters might think when they fund education, they’re funding classrooms and teachers and school buildings. Yet the reality we see is we’re funding administrators, consultants, mentors. And I think that’s where we need transparency
https://moco360.media/2023/11/20/superintendent-mcknight-hires-nancy-navarro-as-senior-advisor-for-external-affairs-at-mcps/
Anonymous
11/21/2023 15:29
Subject: BOE Communications Director
Anonymous wrote:I still want to know how many people work in the central office. MCPS has 11,300 non-teaching staff which is 2x the number that Fairfax Co has. MCPS is insanely bloated.
Where did you get that number and what does it cover? I can thing of a lot of things that could fall into non-teaching staff(ex: building services, security, food services, bus drivers, Human Resources, accounting, finance, technology, social workers, psychologist, nurse, program evaluation, etc.)
Anonymous
11/21/2023 15:14
Subject: BOE Communications Director
Anonymous wrote:The biggest issue is that generally central office positions are internal hires so we take teachers out of the classroom and put them in office positions leaving the direct student contact position open.
Now this is a correct statement. That’s not to say that central office and admin shouldn’t hire internally, but it does create a strain on direct student contact positions if their is not a strong pipeline of teachers to fill the open spot
Anonymous
11/20/2023 22:36
Subject: BOE Communications Director
I still want to know how many people work in the central office. MCPS has 11,300 non-teaching staff which is 2x the number that Fairfax Co has. MCPS is insanely bloated.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 22:35
Subject: BOE Communications Director
The biggest issue is that generally central office positions are internal hires so we take teachers out of the classroom and put them in office positions leaving the direct student contact position open.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 22:20
Subject: BOE Communications Director
Anonymous wrote:Actually, mcps predetermines how much money will be needed on salaries for the next year. It's set aside and salary is set by the mcea contract. So this position literally does nothing for or against teaching jobs or salaries. All those empty teaching positions don't mean more money for teachers either. Any new positions don't take away money from anyone. Currently working teachers will continue to get paid exactly the same until the next negotiation. And you calling a stranger an idiot is the exact reason why teachers don't want to deal with a holes and their kids.
LOL The Board of Education moves money around all year long, all the time. Hope you aren’t a teacher because you are clueless about the organization you work for.
Teachers lose when admin is added.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 22:15
Subject: BOE Communications Director
Actually, mcps predetermines how much money will be needed on salaries for the next year. It's set aside and salary is set by the mcea contract. So this position literally does nothing for or against teaching jobs or salaries. All those empty teaching positions don't mean more money for teachers either. Any new positions don't take away money from anyone. Currently working teachers will continue to get paid exactly the same until the next negotiation. And you calling a stranger an idiot is the exact reason why teachers don't want to deal with a holes and their kids.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 22:01
Subject: BOE Communications Director
Anonymous wrote:You could post 20 board positions and it wouldn't make a difference on teaching jobs. They are separate budgets and no one wants to teach anymore because entitled parents have raised entitled children
You are an idiot. There is one MCPS Operating Budget and spending money on administrators means less money for teachers.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 20:46
Subject: BOE Communications Director
Anonymous wrote:You could post 20 board positions and it wouldn't make a difference on teaching jobs. They are separate budgets and no one wants to teach anymore because entitled parents have raised entitled children
This needs to be repeated.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 19:14
Subject: Re:BOE Communications Director
I think this is needed. The more autonomous and separate the BOE becomes from MCPS, the better. Give them their own staff and resources so they don't have to rely only on the crumbs McKnight and her team throw at them.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 19:14
Subject: BOE Communications Director
You could post 20 board positions and it wouldn't make a difference on teaching jobs. They are separate budgets and no one wants to teach anymore because entitled parents have raised entitled children
Anonymous
11/20/2023 18:31
Subject: BOE Communications Director
I do understand the need for this role. However, I still think there are way too many people not directly working with the students. I wish there could be a complete overhaul of central office.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 18:14
Subject: BOE Communications Director
People expect more information, faster than ever before. They expect emails, social media, letters, phone calls (which require a script), and they expect it all promptly. They expect to know everything immediately.
Supply and demand, OP. Pretty basic concept.
Supply and demand, OP. Pretty basic concept.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 17:45
Subject: Re:BOE Communications Director
This is new, and comes in light of the Beidelman situation. I think it is proper for the board to have their own staff who work for them directly and not Dr. McKnight. There has been too much blurring of those lines.
Anonymous
11/20/2023 17:32
Subject: BOE Communications Director
I was just looking through Careers, and saw this job advertised. Is this a new role? Do we really need ANOTHER employee not working with students.
To be fair, I do think the BOE as part-time employees have way too much on their plate. However, I don’t feel positive thoughts about another fill time position going just toward communications (salary is at the administrator level).
So, is this new? Or is someone leaving? How can we get more teachers and less office bloat?
To be fair, I do think the BOE as part-time employees have way too much on their plate. However, I don’t feel positive thoughts about another fill time position going just toward communications (salary is at the administrator level).
So, is this new? Or is someone leaving? How can we get more teachers and less office bloat?