Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 20:14     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
I went to sign up but it was barely minimum wage and I had to pay for fingerprinting. I still might as basically my pro bono hours. Not sure it’s worth the paper work - if they’d just let me volunteer. My kid had a security guard for a sub. You can apply for approval from your government job. Like adjuncts.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 20:07     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For less than $20/hour and no benefits? No thank you.


If its good enough for you to demand others do it, why can't you? You need the staff at the schools!


Actually we demand that subs be paid much more. You're very unhelpful and you miss the point on ideas.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 20:05     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:Mcps is really desperate for substitutes. And hey a lot of you guys think the teaching is super easy so you may as well take some vacation time and still get paid to do a side hustle.


I am looking for a job but my last pay rate for hourly work was $50/ hour and that was 15 years ago. So, no. I can think of 100 other things I would rather do for low pay that don't involve brats and or covid.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:32     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For less than $20/hour and no benefits? No thank you.


If its good enough for you to demand others do it, why can't you? You need the staff at the schools!


+1000
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:31     Subject: Re:So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Sure, why don't you volunteer to fill in at my job. You go with needles?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:30     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Any parent who demands in person no matter what claiming it is safe should be forced to work as a sub for a week.



+100 and do a shift of lunch duty and indoor recess to see what fun that is!


Are those of us who have been "demanding" in person while "claiming" it is safe, and who also work in person and have since long before schools reopened, exempt from this requirement. Because it was really cool to pay for childcare so that we could go to our in person jobs, while all our kids teachers stayed home.

It was especially cool when teachers were given vaccine priority before I was even though I was in person and they were not.

But hey, if any teachers want to take all my restaurant shifts next week, you are welcome to it! Think it's tough when the kids whose names you know and whose families you've met remove their masks for one meal a day? Well then you are going to LOVE when you are just surrounded by massless, half-drunk strangers for hours at a time.


Very well stated
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:29     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Ask the SAHPs
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:25     Subject: Re:So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:Two months agao, I submitted an application to be a substitute teacher, completed the online background check, training, etc. but I haven't heard anything. How should I follow-up?

Check with your probation officer.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:23     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mcps is really desperate for substitutes. And hey a lot of you guys think the teaching is super easy so you may as well take some vacation time and still get paid to do a side hustle.


A lot of professionals have professions that don’t allow for a “side hustle”, unlike teaching.


Teacher here. It’s hard to have aside hustle when I work 60 hours a week. The summers? They are spent doing curricula writing, recertification classes, and new teacher training (mentoring). There are some teachers who can take on a second job, but many of us can’t.


Come on, now. A large majority of teachers were private tutoring during remote learning. We know what’s really going on.


I don’t know a single teacher who did that. We were too busy changing lessons to fit a virtual format and holding extra office hours to help our students. I’m sorry you have such a poor opinion of teachers.


It’s not just me btw.



NP: if it’s such a desirable job how about you sign up !
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:12     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
I have a Phd in mathematics and work for a tech company. One of the ways the company gives back is to give each employee 40 hours of volunteer time.

I’d be happy to sub for a calc class. I did a lot of teaching when I was getting my phd but it was undergrad not HS.

This is a great idea for how to spend my volunteer hours this year. Thanks for the idea!
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:12     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:

Amusing that no one is volunteering, yet they're all screaming that schools must stay open. Thank you for highlighting the hypocrisy, OP. DCUM posters all earn more than teachers - no one wants to sacrifice their jobs (or their life of leisure). The teachers are like the help - expendable nobodies.


+1,000,000
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:11     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Any parent who demands in person no matter what claiming it is safe should be forced to work as a sub for a week.



+100 and do a shift of lunch duty and indoor recess to see what fun that is!


Are those of us who have been "demanding" in person while "claiming" it is safe, and who also work in person and have since long before schools reopened, exempt from this requirement. Because it was really cool to pay for childcare so that we could go to our in person jobs, while all our kids teachers stayed home.

It was especially cool when teachers were given vaccine priority before I was even though I was in person and they were not.

But hey, if any teachers want to take all my restaurant shifts next week, you are welcome to it! Think it's tough when the kids whose names you know and whose families you've met remove their masks for one meal a day? Well then you are going to LOVE when you are just surrounded by massless, half-drunk strangers for hours at a time.


Please appreciate that your experience does not reflect the experience of the majority on these boards.
And I'm sorry you're so exposed. Most out-of-touch DCUM posters don't care about you either.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:08     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers


Amusing that no one is volunteering, yet they're all screaming that schools must stay open. Thank you for highlighting the hypocrisy, OP. DCUM posters all earn more than teachers - no one wants to sacrifice their jobs (or their life of leisure). The teachers are like the help - expendable nobodies.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:01     Subject: Re:So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:Two months agao, I submitted an application to be a substitute teacher, completed the online background check, training, etc. but I haven't heard anything. How should I follow-up?


I love how no one replies to this poster, who really tried

I am here for one to volunteer to pay higher taxes to raise sub wages to $50/ hr.
I propose we also get rid of half the central office, since no one is actually doing anything there (like processing applications). Then outsource it to a county where median pay is half ours.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 18:55     Subject: So any of you want to sign up to be mcps substitute teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Any parent who demands in person no matter what claiming it is safe should be forced to work as a sub for a week.



+100 and do a shift of lunch duty and indoor recess to see what fun that is!


Are those of us who have been "demanding" in person while "claiming" it is safe, and who also work in person and have since long before schools reopened, exempt from this requirement. Because it was really cool to pay for childcare so that we could go to our in person jobs, while all our kids teachers stayed home.

It was especially cool when teachers were given vaccine priority before I was even though I was in person and they were not.

But hey, if any teachers want to take all my restaurant shifts next week, you are welcome to it! Think it's tough when the kids whose names you know and whose families you've met remove their masks for one meal a day? Well then you are going to LOVE when you are just surrounded by massless, half-drunk strangers for hours at a time.