Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:52
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:**But I still think there is going to be a last minute push for the unions to vote to forego our raises to save these jobs.
How do you think that will go over? And how does it work? Does the union decide? Do MCEA members vote?
Not the PP but yes, in 2009 the unions advocated strongly for members to vote to pause our step increases and CoLas due to the financial crisis. The vote passed and it took years to get those steps back.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:47
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:**But I still think there is going to be a last minute push for the unions to vote to forego our raises to save these jobs.
How do you think that will go over? And how does it work? Does the union decide? Do MCEA members vote?
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:20
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
These are union positions. If someone is, let’s say a Staff Development Teacher (in the first tranche of cuts) with 20 years in MCPS wouldn’t they just have to take an open position elsewhere in the county? If the school has an opening, they could take that position. If it does not and they want to stay in the school, then the last hired teacher would be cut, not the teacher with 20 years.
As an MCEA member, this is how I understand the current situation.
**But I still think there is going to be a last minute push for the unions to vote to forego our raises to save these jobs.
As an MCEA member, this is how I understand the current situation.
**But I still think there is going to be a last minute push for the unions to vote to forego our raises to save these jobs.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:56
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the point of pouring money into recruiting and training to attract more teachers into the profession when they come to MCPS and Taylor sends them notices they are being let go because he is pouting?
Way to kill off the next generation of teachers TT. All because you didn’t get a few extra dollars in your $3,775,000,000 budget.
Are you saying teachers are being laid off over the weekend before Taylor even gets approval from the Board of Ed on who to fire/what to cut to plug the deficit?!
Taylor sent letters to individuals telling them their job would be cut if he didn’t get every last penny he was demanding. Yes, Taylor threatened individuals without Board of Education authorization.
Are you talking about the letters last week saying their jobs were at threat? Or did he actually tell people in the last few days that they have actually been fired?
If you are just talking about the former-- I deeply disagree with and dislike Taylor, but he was asked by County Council to make lists to tell them who would be laid off depending on how much funding was passed or not. And honestly, I kind of feel like it would be *more* disrespectful to put a list out there saying certain of your employees are in line to be cut but then not say anything to those employees directly?
+1
It's not his call to fire individual teachers. The Board of Education hasn't even decided how to handle the budget they are being given by the Council. The Board could decide to fire administrators.
Not the point. The letter was not firing anyone. It was giving them a heads-up that their positions were included in the lists for the council.
Correct. It’s a notification so if the decision is made no one can say they weren’t notified timely.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:25
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
My 1st grader tells me that their elementary school counselor last day is yesterday, and she will not see her anymore. I do not 100% trust her words, but I wonder if there elementary school counselor gets laid off or take leave on vacation or whatever reasons.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:21
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the point of pouring money into recruiting and training to attract more teachers into the profession when they come to MCPS and Taylor sends them notices they are being let go because he is pouting?
Way to kill off the next generation of teachers TT. All because you didn’t get a few extra dollars in your $3,775,000,000 budget.
Are you saying teachers are being laid off over the weekend before Taylor even gets approval from the Board of Ed on who to fire/what to cut to plug the deficit?!
Taylor sent letters to individuals telling them their job would be cut if he didn’t get every last penny he was demanding. Yes, Taylor threatened individuals without Board of Education authorization.
Are you talking about the letters last week saying their jobs were at threat? Or did he actually tell people in the last few days that they have actually been fired?
If you are just talking about the former-- I deeply disagree with and dislike Taylor, but he was asked by County Council to make lists to tell them who would be laid off depending on how much funding was passed or not. And honestly, I kind of feel like it would be *more* disrespectful to put a list out there saying certain of your employees are in line to be cut but then not say anything to those employees directly?
+1
It's not his call to fire individual teachers. The Board of Education hasn't even decided how to handle the budget they are being given by the Council. The Board could decide to fire administrators.
Not the point. The letter was not firing anyone. It was giving them a heads-up that their positions were included in the lists for the council.
Teachers can read.
They can see the news.
They can see their job cut from the budget.
Give them some credit.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 16:46
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the point of pouring money into recruiting and training to attract more teachers into the profession when they come to MCPS and Taylor sends them notices they are being let go because he is pouting?
Way to kill off the next generation of teachers TT. All because you didn’t get a few extra dollars in your $3,775,000,000 budget.
Are you saying teachers are being laid off over the weekend before Taylor even gets approval from the Board of Ed on who to fire/what to cut to plug the deficit?!
Taylor sent letters to individuals telling them their job would be cut if he didn’t get every last penny he was demanding. Yes, Taylor threatened individuals without Board of Education authorization.
Are you talking about the letters last week saying their jobs were at threat? Or did he actually tell people in the last few days that they have actually been fired?
If you are just talking about the former-- I deeply disagree with and dislike Taylor, but he was asked by County Council to make lists to tell them who would be laid off depending on how much funding was passed or not. And honestly, I kind of feel like it would be *more* disrespectful to put a list out there saying certain of your employees are in line to be cut but then not say anything to those employees directly?
+1
It's not his call to fire individual teachers. The Board of Education hasn't even decided how to handle the budget they are being given by the Council. The Board could decide to fire administrators.
Not the point. The letter was not firing anyone. It was giving them a heads-up that their positions were included in the lists for the council.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 16:43
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the point of pouring money into recruiting and training to attract more teachers into the profession when they come to MCPS and Taylor sends them notices they are being let go because he is pouting?
Way to kill off the next generation of teachers TT. All because you didn’t get a few extra dollars in your $3,775,000,000 budget.
Are you saying teachers are being laid off over the weekend before Taylor even gets approval from the Board of Ed on who to fire/what to cut to plug the deficit?!
Taylor sent letters to individuals telling them their job would be cut if he didn’t get every last penny he was demanding. Yes, Taylor threatened individuals without Board of Education authorization.
Are you talking about the letters last week saying their jobs were at threat? Or did he actually tell people in the last few days that they have actually been fired?
If you are just talking about the former-- I deeply disagree with and dislike Taylor, but he was asked by County Council to make lists to tell them who would be laid off depending on how much funding was passed or not. And honestly, I kind of feel like it would be *more* disrespectful to put a list out there saying certain of your employees are in line to be cut but then not say anything to those employees directly?
The jobs aren't actually going to be cut. This happens every year. It's just a game between our esteemed leaders
Didn't the OP say that Taylor had sent layoff notices to teachers in the last few days?
I can confirm that one of our junior teachers receive such a notice two weeks ago. The notice was explicit about the reason being funding cuts. So even the budget hasn't been approved yet, TT has been starting to lay off teachers due to budget cut.
Glad Taylor has his priorities straight and still has plenty of taxpayer money for his own personal swag budget and to gift $70 mn of the MCPS capital budget to real estate developers so they can build a new condo where the school bus depot currently is located. /s
Anonymous
05/19/2026 16:40
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Nobody who is an AKA, or in any way affiliated with the SSSM will be fired.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 16:20
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the point of pouring money into recruiting and training to attract more teachers into the profession when they come to MCPS and Taylor sends them notices they are being let go because he is pouting?
Way to kill off the next generation of teachers TT. All because you didn’t get a few extra dollars in your $3,775,000,000 budget.
Are you saying teachers are being laid off over the weekend before Taylor even gets approval from the Board of Ed on who to fire/what to cut to plug the deficit?!
Taylor sent letters to individuals telling them their job would be cut if he didn’t get every last penny he was demanding. Yes, Taylor threatened individuals without Board of Education authorization.
Are you talking about the letters last week saying their jobs were at threat? Or did he actually tell people in the last few days that they have actually been fired?
If you are just talking about the former-- I deeply disagree with and dislike Taylor, but he was asked by County Council to make lists to tell them who would be laid off depending on how much funding was passed or not. And honestly, I kind of feel like it would be *more* disrespectful to put a list out there saying certain of your employees are in line to be cut but then not say anything to those employees directly?
+1
It's not his call to fire individual teachers. The Board of Education hasn't even decided how to handle the budget they are being given by the Council. The Board could decide to fire administrators.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 15:26
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the point of pouring money into recruiting and training to attract more teachers into the profession when they come to MCPS and Taylor sends them notices they are being let go because he is pouting?
Way to kill off the next generation of teachers TT. All because you didn’t get a few extra dollars in your $3,775,000,000 budget.
Are you saying teachers are being laid off over the weekend before Taylor even gets approval from the Board of Ed on who to fire/what to cut to plug the deficit?!
Taylor sent letters to individuals telling them their job would be cut if he didn’t get every last penny he was demanding. Yes, Taylor threatened individuals without Board of Education authorization.
Are you talking about the letters last week saying their jobs were at threat? Or did he actually tell people in the last few days that they have actually been fired?
If you are just talking about the former-- I deeply disagree with and dislike Taylor, but he was asked by County Council to make lists to tell them who would be laid off depending on how much funding was passed or not. And honestly, I kind of feel like it would be *more* disrespectful to put a list out there saying certain of your employees are in line to be cut but then not say anything to those employees directly?
+1
Anonymous
05/19/2026 15:10
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor’s latest video made it sound like next year’s budget situation will be worse than this one.
It will. His mismanagement is crushing the schools.
He can't control demographics, you stupid Mad.Mommy.of.MoCo.Who.Is.Big.Mad.
You already told us you live in Virginia, so none of this impacts you at all. Just bored sitting in your basement all day typing out garbage. Nothing about demographics is making Thomas Taylor destroy MCPS. That's all on him.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 15:02
Subject: Re:Taylor firing new teachers
Also now, the Superintendent is whining about having to justify a multi-billion dollar budget with a massive increase in the face of declining enrollment. He had to do it last year too, poor guy.
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/05/18/taylor-comments-on-frustrating-budget/
The really frustrating part with all of this, or at least it is for me, is that this has kind of become like an annual journey for us during budget season where we as MCPS and educators, we have to explain our value to our funding partners. It is really just exhausting.
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/05/18/taylor-comments-on-frustrating-budget/
Anonymous
05/19/2026 15:00
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the point of pouring money into recruiting and training to attract more teachers into the profession when they come to MCPS and Taylor sends them notices they are being let go because he is pouting?
Way to kill off the next generation of teachers TT. All because you didn’t get a few extra dollars in your $3,775,000,000 budget.
Are you saying teachers are being laid off over the weekend before Taylor even gets approval from the Board of Ed on who to fire/what to cut to plug the deficit?!
Taylor sent letters to individuals telling them their job would be cut if he didn’t get every last penny he was demanding. Yes, Taylor threatened individuals without Board of Education authorization.
Are you talking about the letters last week saying their jobs were at threat? Or did he actually tell people in the last few days that they have actually been fired?
If you are just talking about the former-- I deeply disagree with and dislike Taylor, but he was asked by County Council to make lists to tell them who would be laid off depending on how much funding was passed or not. And honestly, I kind of feel like it would be *more* disrespectful to put a list out there saying certain of your employees are in line to be cut but then not say anything to those employees directly?
The jobs aren't actually going to be cut. This happens every year. It's just a game between our esteemed leaders
Didn't the OP say that Taylor had sent layoff notices to teachers in the last few days?
I can confirm that one of our junior teachers receive such a notice two weeks ago. The notice was explicit about the reason being funding cuts. So even the budget hasn't been approved yet, TT has been starting to lay off teachers due to budget cut.
That was then. This is now:
I will keep this really simple for you. My goal is to keep reductions as far away from the classroom as possible without drastically impacting operations. As I’ve said to you before, 90% of our budget is people. It’s you. Specifically, how many people we employ as a school system and how much we pay them. Those are our two main choices for looking at reductions.
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/05/18/taylor-comments-on-frustrating-budget/
Jobs will easily be saved by a small reduction in raises
Anonymous
05/19/2026 14:58
Subject: Taylor firing new teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor’s latest video made it sound like next year’s budget situation will be worse than this one.
It will. His mismanagement is crushing the schools.
He can't control demographics, you stupid Mad.Mommy.of.MoCo.Who.Is.Big.Mad.