The special education teacher I work with is always complaining that she has so much work but it doesn’t look like it is more work than regular teachers. I think the work load for special education teachers is more cyclical and not spread out as much as for regular teachers. Resource class is a joke. She has 6-8 kids in there with a para and the kids mostly sit on their phones or chat with teacher or each other. For her co-taught classes, I do all the planning and most of the teaching and most of the grading. Yes, paperwork and meetings are tedious for special education teachers but many of us take work home, not just special education teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:The Filipino nurses whom I work with at a local MoCo Hospital are excellent. Many of them have masters degrees. I have heard from many sources that they are paid less than the rest of us to offset their legal fees, recruitment fees, and airfare, but I do not know how much less. They are obliged by a 3 year contract.

Many of the Filipino nurses work overtime.

Somehow, I'm under the impression that at local MoCo hospitals, Filipino nurses are paid for their overtime work.

-MCPS Special Education Teacher

Anonymous wrote:The Filipino nurses whom I work with at a local MoCo Hospital are excellent. Many of them have masters degrees. I have heard from many sources that they are paid less than the rest of us to offset their legal fees, recruitment fees, and airfare, but I do not know how much less. They are obliged by a 3 year contract.

Many of the Filipino nurses work overtime.

The Filipino nurses whom I work with at a local MoCo Hospital are excellent. Many of them have masters degrees. I have heard from many sources that they are paid less than the rest of us to offset their legal fees, recruitment fees, and airfare, but I do not know how much less. They are obliged by a 3 year contract.

While most jobs don't pay for moving expenses, those coming from places like the Philippines might not being able to come without that support.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like it's similar to au pair cultural exchange programs but for teachers.

Only As far as somebody coming from a different country.

An au pair has a fully furnished room with a fully stocked kitchen and all they really need to bring is a suitcase, full of clothing and personal items.

It sounds like these women were only allowed to bring a suitcase with personal items and have nothing else to make a temporary life here.

This is not like an au pair program or even like hiring your average teacher. If the county wants to engage in this kind of program, then they should be providing them with housing with the basic living necessities. They should not need to crowd source for pots and pans.

Can not imagine a restriction on luggage? Maybe they only reimbursed a set amount. My DD just moved to CA for a tech job. She got $200 in luggage reimbursement. Not enough to take more then the minimum. The rest we shipped (expensive) and will bring out slowly.

Most jobs don't pay for moving expenses.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like it's similar to au pair cultural exchange programs but for teachers.

Only As far as somebody coming from a different country.

An au pair has a fully furnished room with a fully stocked kitchen and all they really need to bring is a suitcase, full of clothing and personal items.

It sounds like these women were only allowed to bring a suitcase with personal items and have nothing else to make a temporary life here.

This is not like an au pair program or even like hiring your average teacher. If the county wants to engage in this kind of program, then they should be providing them with housing with the basic living necessities. They should not need to crowd source for pots and pans.

Au pair's situations vary by home. And, they are not even paid minimum wage. Not comparable. This is a contract through an agency that the BOE hid from the public to reduce MCPS staff but be fully staffed. Its common in government to do these kind of contracts. But, the agency is the one making hte money, not the teachers.

Anonymous wrote:Some people are playing a bully high school game as teachers who bully other teachers because they are more friendly with bully admin and spend their time and energy sabotaging and climbing ladders. Unfortunately this is how you get the money in mcps as you f over your colleagues.

C'mon - again? If you'd been a competent teacher you'd still have a job.

PG County has been doing this for years, since about 2005 or so. Got in big trouble around 2014 or so and had to pay a lot of back pay.

They're not going to give foreign teachers minimum wage

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like it's similar to au pair cultural exchange programs but for teachers.

Only As far as somebody coming from a different country.

An au pair has a fully furnished room with a fully stocked kitchen and all they really need to bring is a suitcase, full of clothing and personal items.

It sounds like these women were only allowed to bring a suitcase with personal items and have nothing else to make a temporary life here.

This is not like an au pair program or even like hiring your average teacher. If the county wants to engage in this kind of program, then they should be providing them with housing with the basic living necessities. They should not need to crowd source for pots and pans.

Can not imagine a restriction on luggage? Maybe they only reimbursed a set amount. My DD just moved to CA for a tech job. She got $200 in luggage reimbursement. Not enough to take more then the minimum. The rest we shipped (expensive) and will bring out slowly.

Anonymous wrote:Pare ts, you would be up in arms with placards in front of central office of mcps decided to solve its math teacher shortage by importing a large group from the Philippines.

It's outrageous that mcps treats it's Special Needs children this way. What a disgrace!

What's your solution?

Also the lack if support and consequences as well as systematic data manipulation and victim blaming are prevalent and well documented in mcps.

Some people are playing a bully high school game as teachers who bully other teachers because they are more friendly with bully admin and spend their time and energy sabotaging and climbing ladders. Unfortunately this is how you get the money in mcps as you f over your colleagues.

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Anonymous wrote:Pare ts, you would be up in arms with placards in front of central office of mcps decided to solve its math teacher shortage by importing a large group from the Philippines.

It's outrageous that mcps treats it's Special Needs children this way. What a disgrace!

They are very well trained teachers and our math teacher from the Philippines is awesome. If it weren’t for the behavior issues, they’d be fantastic.

If it weren’t for the behavior issues we’d all be fantastic teachers.

Not true at all. Some people just can’t relate to kids and it shows.

America is turning into a shithole 3rd world country!