Anonymous wrote:English composition assistants are gone. Direct in-class student support. But... SDTs are still here, serving, like a PP said, as the chief of staff for self-important HS principals.

Exactly! SDTs free up important principal time. Never got a single thing from the SDT that I could implement to benefit student education.

Anonymous wrote:English composition assistants are gone. Direct in-class student support. But... SDTs are still here, serving, like a PP said, as the chief of staff for self-important HS principals.

As a teacher, the ECA cuts are brutal. They should have been saved over the SDTS and other bloat in central. The ECAs worked one on one with students who were struggling. Since MCPS has huge class sizes and “honors for all” English classes, their support is even more essential. They provide direct student support. They should not have ever been on the chopping block.

We have a good SDT but he literally serves as chief of staff to the principal and is running around putting out fires. He has very little time for staff development.

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason they decided to save high school SDTs. HS and MS SDT roles should have been first on the chopping block.

SDT saves over the literacy specialists is a slap in the face to education.

Yes, to suggest that SDT provide meaningful professional development for teachers is a joke.

+1 Like a pp wrote they should have been first to go. They are really good at gaslighting admin and CO that they are needed. It’s crazy- making.

SDT’s, in my experience, are some of the most divisive people on the faculty. Eliminating SDT’s would likely have a positive impact on school morale, and probably on student learning.

Most SDTs (HS/MS level) are hated but apparently lack the self-awareness to understand that...which actually makes a lot of sense for the majority of them.

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason they decided to save high school SDTs. HS and MS SDT roles should have been first on the chopping block.

SDT saves over the literacy specialists is a slap in the face to education.

Yes, to suggest that SDT provide meaningful professional development for teachers is a joke.

+1 Like a pp wrote they should have been first to go. They are really good at gaslighting admin and CO that they are needed. It’s crazy- making.

SDT’s, in my experience, are some of the most divisive people on the faculty. Eliminating SDT’s would likely have a positive impact on school morale, and probably on student learning.

100% agree with PP that stated that MCPS should focus on actual teaching and social programs.

English composition assistants are gone. Direct in-class student support. But... SDTs are still here, serving, like a PP said, as the chief of staff for self-important HS principals.