That's a principal thing- mistreat teachers contribute to horrendous harassment filled conditions then be promoted to a desk job in Central. Then they can expand this type of mismanagement

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Anonymous wrote:Two of DC's teachers changed schools last year after semester 1. This is high school. I don't know why except the kids were sad to see them go.

I'm very surprised, they went to another MCPS school?

Might be easier with semester classes since it’s a clean break.

I could see a situation in which school A lost a core course teacher (NSL B) and School B had a teacher with over half their assigned courses in underenrolled electives in that department (Sociology, Law, and Psychology). Rather than allow School A to give 5 sections of NSL B to long term subs (more realistically dailies this year), Central Office could reassign the teacher from School B.

If there’s a problem with mistreatment, sometimes compliance can get creative.

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Anonymous wrote:Two of DC's teachers changed schools last year after semester 1. This is high school. I don't know why except the kids were sad to see them go.

I'm very surprised, they went to another MCPS school?

They could have been long term subs who got hired.

Anonymous wrote:Two of DC's teachers changed schools last year after semester 1. This is high school. I don't know why except the kids were sad to see them go.

I'm very surprised, they went to another MCPS school?

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Anonymous wrote:Principals have all the power in MCPS. How did you not already know this?

How did you not think that there are two principals involved? What are they going to do, arm wrestle over the teacher?

My point was that it doesn’t matter what the teacher wants. If a principal wants you to move, they will figure out how to do it whether it’s mid year or the summer. If a principal doesn’t want you to move, they can also ensure you’re stuck at your current school.

Two of DC's teachers changed schools last year after semester 1. This is high school. I don't know why except the kids were sad to see them go.

No, only if it's a promotion or the system saw an urgent need and reassigned someone which I've actually never seen happen after pre service week.

Sept 2021, we lost a great SPED teacher to another school. I think it was allowed because the other school needed a SPED teacher and school had only been in session a couple weeks. However, we had a vacancy the rest of the year.

Anonymous wrote:Principals have all the power in MCPS. How did you not already know this?

How did you not think that there are two principals involved? What are they going to do, arm wrestle over the teacher?

Principals have all the power in MCPS. How did you not already know this?

Generally speaking, only promotions are allowed, but there are sometimes when lateral position moves are allowed. The principal has to allow it, and it usually is to fill a critical need. For example, one school I know had a classroom teacher leave mid-year. Another non-classroom based teacher was moved into that position. But if a teacher just wanted to move grade levels or content areas just because, that wouldn't happen.

As the title says....

I know central can pick them up, but is it possible for employees to switch schools or positions mid-year? Thanks.