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Anonymous wrote:Where do you see 220 MS teachers being cut, I don’t see that on the linked document. Can anyone verify this?

I also don’t see any MS teachers on the list.

It's on page 4. Why middle school is my question...we barely have enough staff as it is right now. If they are pre-cutting electives for 2027's math disaster, people need to start getting angry. We are just gutting education at this point. People making the decisions aren't the ones in classrooms. Cutting electives in middle school is the worst idea-we need more electives, not less. So many kids have stated that their favorite elective whether it be band, dance, music,tech, or theatre is the ONLY reason they go to school. I'm a counselor not a teacher, but from what I see/hear from students on a daily basis, this would absolutely negatively affect them. This is all for 15 additional minutes of math a day, which the state apparently thinks is super easy to implement without giving a second thought to how it would drastically alter scheduling for middle schools/hs and thus,cutting arts programs and electives for those 15 minutes of math that kids are probably already tuned out because their attention spans won't allow for it. Disgraceful.

Yes, I am pretty furious about this. The increased MS math minutes requirement is at the state level so folks need to fight it there (talk to the state Board of Ed members and your state legislators)-- but MCPS should be pushing back on it and they're not and that pisses me off. And they definitely shouldn't be cutting MS electives preemptively in 2026-2027, since there's a chance the state will reverse themselves before the middle school math minutes requirement is supposed to go into effect in 2027-2028.

Putting more time into math is good, BUT the issue isn't time, it's the curriculum and not identifying learning disabilities early and supporting them. Kids who cannot read will struggle in math.

Exactly so why are we potentially ruining a child's school experience for 15 extra minutes of math a day? Again, I don't think enough people know about this or are outraged by it. Probably because to an outsider (so MSDE should actually understand this, but they don't) 15 minutes sounds like it won't be that disruptive. It works for elementary school but it's a logistical nightmare for scheduling classes in MS/HS which will lead to programs being cut. It will also require hiring more math teachers when we have no money. This should really be what people are pressing the state and the county on right now.

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Anonymous wrote:The way I see it is that MCPS has wasted away so much money on frivolous and unnecessary things. MCPS is like a bratty child who tantrums for more candy (money) and the council has always given in. After all, it's easy for them, it's not their money. Just raise taxes.

Now you have a someone who needs to reign in this bratty and spoiled behemoth aka MCPS. I wish they would cut the spending instead of staff, but something has to give. This is a long time coming.

While I agree with you, it's not going to hit the people that deserve it. It will directly affect the people who have nothing to do with these decisions including students. We should be cutting CO positions, looking at every budget line item, and cutting CO salaries if we can't cut their positions. Taylor's salary should be cut as well. As he says, he sleeps fine at night because he thinks he's making good decisions. I think the rest of the county would beg to differ.

I hate to say it but it's not about who deserves it or not. I agree 100% that every budget line item needs to be audited and that bloated CO needs a cut.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS needs to cut language immersion & programming like that.

Focus on the basics
Trade programs
College tracking
gifted programming
Special education
General populace & education

This would not save any money. Immersion teachers do not get paid more than a regular elementary teacher. And the students still need to be in school, so they would just be in an English speaking class instead. Absolutely no impact on the budget.

Yes it would save money. Immersion programs have a different extra sets of curriculums, extra staff hiring goes into finding dual language teachers, there are central office positions that have to support those schools. Most of the kids in the programs, struggle with the language, parents sign up because they don't want their kids to be in a highly concentrated Latino school.

Oh you again. Just go away- I'm sorry your kids didn't get in but don't assume your reason for applying to language immersion is the same as everyone else's. (FWIW, we deliberatebly bought a house in bounds for a dual immersion school, which gasp, has a decent percentage of Latino students, because learning a foreign language is important to our family. sorry if that's a weird concept for you!)

This is true. They should have it for Spanish speaker only kids and make Spanish a special for all other kids.

Maybe we should start evaluating the need for language instruction at all in public schools- how many students can actually converse in the language upon gradation? And what is the need when the rest of the world learns English already? That's a lot of money that could be spent elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:Immersion programs are ways for kids to get out of their assigned schools. It is also not true "immersion." For instance, kids taking upper level Chinese classes at Churchill are not in an "immersion" program. True immersion program is when Chinese is used to teach math, social studies, etc. But it is a way to get out of their assigned HS.

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Anonymous wrote:The way I see it is that MCPS has wasted away so much money on frivolous and unnecessary things. MCPS is like a bratty child who tantrums for more candy (money) and the council has always given in. After all, it's easy for them, it's not their money. Just raise taxes.

Now you have a someone who needs to reign in this bratty and spoiled behemoth aka MCPS. I wish they would cut the spending instead of staff, but something has to give. This is a long time coming.

While I agree with you, it's not going to hit the people that deserve it. It will directly affect the people who have nothing to do with these decisions including students. We should be cutting CO positions, looking at every budget line item, and cutting CO salaries if we can't cut their positions. Taylor's salary should be cut as well. As he says, he sleeps fine at night because he thinks he's making good decisions. I think the rest of the county would beg to differ.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you see 220 MS teachers being cut, I don’t see that on the linked document. Can anyone verify this?

I also don’t see any MS teachers on the list.

It's on page 4. Why middle school is my question...we barely have enough staff as it is right now. If they are pre-cutting electives for 2027's math disaster, people need to start getting angry. We are just gutting education at this point. People making the decisions aren't the ones in classrooms. Cutting electives in middle school is the worst idea-we need more electives, not less. So many kids have stated that their favorite elective whether it be band, dance, music,tech, or theatre is the ONLY reason they go to school. I'm a counselor not a teacher, but from what I see/hear from students on a daily basis, this would absolutely negatively affect them. This is all for 15 additional minutes of math a day, which the state apparently thinks is super easy to implement without giving a second thought to how it would drastically alter scheduling for middle schools/hs and thus,cutting arts programs and electives for those 15 minutes of math that kids are probably already tuned out because their attention spans won't allow for it. Disgraceful.

Yes, I am pretty furious about this. The increased MS math minutes requirement is at the state level so folks need to fight it there (talk to the state Board of Ed members and your state legislators)-- but MCPS should be pushing back on it and they're not and that pisses me off. And they definitely shouldn't be cutting MS electives preemptively in 2026-2027, since there's a chance the state will reverse themselves before the middle school math minutes requirement is supposed to go into effect in 2027-2028.

Putting more time into math is good, BUT the issue isn't time, it's the curriculum and not identifying learning disabilities early and supporting them. Kids who cannot read will struggle in math.

Exactly so why are we potentially ruining a child's school experience for 15 extra minutes of math a day? Again, I don't think enough people know about this or are outraged by it. Probably because to an outsider (so MSDE should actually understand this, but they don't) 15 minutes sounds like it won't be that disruptive. It works for elementary school but it's a logistical nightmare for scheduling classes in MS/HS which will lead to programs being cut. It will also require hiring more math teachers when we have no money. This should really be what people are pressing the state and the county on right now.

Anonymous wrote:The way I see it is that MCPS has wasted away so much money on frivolous and unnecessary things. MCPS is like a bratty child who tantrums for more candy (money) and the council has always given in. After all, it's easy for them, it's not their money. Just raise taxes.

Now you have a someone who needs to reign in this bratty and spoiled behemoth aka MCPS. I wish they would cut the spending instead of staff, but something has to give. This is a long time coming.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you see 220 MS teachers being cut, I don’t see that on the linked document. Can anyone verify this?

I also don’t see any MS teachers on the list.

It's on page 4. Why middle school is my question...we barely have enough staff as it is right now. If they are pre-cutting electives for 2027's math disaster, people need to start getting angry. We are just gutting education at this point. People making the decisions aren't the ones in classrooms. Cutting electives in middle school is the worst idea-we need more electives, not less. So many kids have stated that their favorite elective whether it be band, dance, music,tech, or theatre is the ONLY reason they go to school. I'm a counselor not a teacher, but from what I see/hear from students on a daily basis, this would absolutely negatively affect them. This is all for 15 additional minutes of math a day, which the state apparently thinks is super easy to implement without giving a second thought to how it would drastically alter scheduling for middle schools/hs and thus,cutting arts programs and electives for those 15 minutes of math that kids are probably already tuned out because their attention spans won't allow for it. Disgraceful.

Yes, I am pretty furious about this. The increased MS math minutes requirement is at the state level so folks need to fight it there (talk to the state Board of Ed members and your state legislators)-- but MCPS should be pushing back on it and they're not and that pisses me off. And they definitely shouldn't be cutting MS electives preemptively in 2026-2027, since there's a chance the state will reverse themselves before the middle school math minutes requirement is supposed to go into effect in 2027-2028.

Putting more time into math is good, BUT the issue isn't time, it's the curriculum and not identifying learning disabilities early and supporting them. Kids who cannot read will struggle in math.

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty much public: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OA8HANnsPlM7-xyvfma4H_0nRLQRYaKo/view

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you see 220 MS teachers being cut, I don’t see that on the linked document. Can anyone verify this?

I also don’t see any MS teachers on the list.

It's on page 4. Why middle school is my question...we barely have enough staff as it is right now. If they are pre-cutting electives for 2027's math disaster, people need to start getting angry. We are just gutting education at this point. People making the decisions aren't the ones in classrooms. Cutting electives in middle school is the worst idea-we need more electives, not less. So many kids have stated that their favorite elective whether it be band, dance, music,tech, or theatre is the ONLY reason they go to school. I'm a counselor not a teacher, but from what I see/hear from students on a daily basis, this would absolutely negatively affect them. This is all for 15 additional minutes of math a day, which the state apparently thinks is super easy to implement without giving a second thought to how it would drastically alter scheduling for middle schools/hs and thus,cutting arts programs and electives for those 15 minutes of math that kids are probably already tuned out because their attention spans won't allow for it. Disgraceful.

Yes, I am pretty furious about this. The increased MS math minutes requirement is at the state level so folks need to fight it there (talk to the state Board of Ed members and your state legislators)-- but MCPS should be pushing back on it and they're not and that pisses me off. And they definitely shouldn't be cutting MS electives preemptively in 2026-2027, since there's a chance the state will reverse themselves before the middle school math minutes requirement is supposed to go into effect in 2027-2028.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you see 220 MS teachers being cut, I don’t see that on the linked document. Can anyone verify this?

I also don’t see any MS teachers on the list.

It's on page 4. Why middle school is my question...we barely have enough staff as it is right now. If they are pre-cutting electives for 2027's math disaster, people need to start getting angry. We are just gutting education at this point. People making the decisions aren't the ones in classrooms. Cutting electives in middle school is the worst idea-we need more electives, not less. So many kids have stated that their favorite elective whether it be band, dance, music,tech, or theatre is the ONLY reason they go to school. I'm a counselor not a teacher, but from what I see/hear from students on a daily basis, this would absolutely negatively affect them. This is all for 15 additional minutes of math a day, which the state apparently thinks is super easy to implement without giving a second thought to how it would drastically alter scheduling for middle schools/hs and thus,cutting arts programs and electives for those 15 minutes of math that kids are probably already tuned out because their attention spans won't allow for it. Disgraceful.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS needs to cut language immersion & programming like that.

Focus on the basics
Trade programs
College tracking
gifted programming
Special education
General populace & education

This would not save any money. Immersion teachers do not get paid more than a regular elementary teacher. And the students still need to be in school, so they would just be in an English speaking class instead. Absolutely no impact on the budget.

Yes it would save money. Immersion programs have a different extra sets of curriculums, extra staff hiring goes into finding dual language teachers, there are central office positions that have to support those schools. Most of the kids in the programs, struggle with the language, parents sign up because they don't want their kids to be in a highly concentrated Latino school.

Oh you again. Just go away- I'm sorry your kids didn't get in but don't assume your reason for applying to language immersion is the same as everyone else's. (FWIW, we deliberatebly bought a house in bounds for a dual immersion school, which gasp, has a decent percentage of Latino students, because learning a foreign language is important to our family. sorry if that's a weird concept for you!)

This is true. They should have it for Spanish speaker only kids and make Spanish a special for all other kids.

Maybe we should start evaluating the need for language instruction at all in public schools- how many students can actually converse in the language upon gradation? And what is the need when the rest of the world learns English already? That's a lot of money that could be spent elsewhere.