While I live in Howard, I enjoy teaching hs in PG. Although students academic caliber is not the same as surrounding counties I admit, they are a lot of great kids. Whenever I mention I teach in PG, it's sad that adults look down upon them overall.

If anyone ever says you would be a great teacher, just say nah...I'm good

I teach in a PGCPS high school and love it. Admin is mostly fine.

Anonymous wrote:Based on the new state requirements, PG has to massively increase their spending on K-12 education. I’m not totally clear on where they will spend the money but it is clear that they need to massively increase it or face state sanctions. So it may be a good time to join?

I’ll hazard a guess. It’ll go to tons of admin positions, both in schools and at Sasscer. It certainly won’t go to teachers or students.

Based on the new state requirements, PG has to massively increase their spending on K-12 education. I’m not totally clear on where they will spend the money but it is clear that they need to massively increase it or face state sanctions. So it may be a good time to join?

Anonymous wrote:Admins should work like assistants to the teachers with support in mind. The current system makes a conflict of interest where they have an incentive to bully teachers to make up data to benefit the overpaid power tripping admin. Don't be a teacher unless you want to be treated like a slave.

The entire system needs to be redesigned. I worked in PGCPS and, frankly, found that admin created 2x more work for me. I actively had to shield my students from their “initiatives”.

Admin should be a support role. They should be there to boost up the teachers who, in turn, can boost up the students. That’s not at all what I experienced in PGCPS, where I felt I was there to support admin and not the students at all.