Anonymous
04/02/2020 10:12
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.
They don't implement IEP. We are past ES age, but my neighbors have kids in Bayard Rustin ES. I was horrifed by the what they told me about IEP implementation for one of thier child who has special needs. Even some basic requirement doesn't get implemented despite having 20 pages of details in IEP. Staffs are nice to talk and all that, but it's useless if kids in desperate need don't get help.
Having said that, I don't think that current situation allows teachers to do much. Many of them will have kids at home. It's not a good situation for anyone.
Do you know long it takes to complete 20 pages of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and then go over every little box on the IEP during meetings that can take hours? It doesn't leave time to then teach students or go around to make sure everything is implemented. There should be one teacher just in charge of all the paperwork or there needs to be a reduction in the amount if osier work so special Ed. teachers can teach. So many special Ed teachers leave teaching or beg teach gen Ed because of all the paperwork.
Anonymous
04/02/2020 09:59
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:Be thankful you aren’t paying $45k a year for it.
The people paying $45k are getting excellent online instruction.
Anonymous
04/02/2020 09:55
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:I am going with ... OP was an April Fool’s Day joke! Let’s just all believe that and move on.
Haha! I like this. Good one, OP!
Anonymous
04/02/2020 09:50
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
I can’t believe what an asshole OP is.
Anonymous
04/02/2020 09:49
Subject: Re:Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:Shut up. I have a lot of problems with MCPS and whiny teachers, but seriously: They are learning brand new skills. They are trying to figure out a new way to educate our kids. They may be trying to do their work with their own children underfoot. The world has changed in completely unexpected ways in the last 2.5 weeks. Give everyone including teachers a break. Your kids, and mine, and everyone else's, will catch up later.
Shut up?
You sound like trash.
Anonymous
04/02/2020 09:47
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.
They don't implement IEP. We are past ES age, but my neighbors have kids in Bayard Rustin ES. I was horrifed by the what they told me about IEP implementation for one of thier child who has special needs. Even some basic requirement doesn't get implemented despite having 20 pages of details in IEP. Staffs are nice to talk and all that, but it's useless if kids in desperate need don't get help.
Having said that, I don't think that current situation allows teachers to do much. Many of them will have kids at home. It's not a good situation for anyone.
Anonymous
04/02/2020 09:40
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
I am going with ... OP was an April Fool’s Day joke! Let’s just all believe that and move on.
Anonymous
04/02/2020 00:35
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:I can't believe our taxes are paying for this.
Congratulations. You are just slightly less offensive than Trump. Major achievement, loser!
Anonymous
04/02/2020 00:34
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:I can't believe our taxes are paying for this.
Your taxes are paying for Trump. And he is a POS administrator. MCPS teachers are doing the best that they can, and I say that as a very active critic of MCPS as a whole. So STFU!
Anonymous
04/02/2020 00:19
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
The folks who are upset with MCPS teachers are now seeing what parents of children with IEPs have seen their entire school career in MCPS - lackluster effort from admin all the way down to paras and yes teachers. Oh, unless you are an MCPS employee - then your IEP kid gets the world. Hope this will force some change. Doubt it - but now the rest of you are seeing what we found on day one. You are just catching up to the culture of MCPS.
Anonymous
04/01/2020 23:41
Subject: Re:Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:Technically, the substitutes and longterm substitutes are hourly. How are they being paid here?
According to the HCPSS superintendant, all full time employees are being paid. The only employees not being paid are temporary employees who have non-guaranteed hours including Substitute Teachers, Lunch and Recess Monitors, Temporary Office Clerks and Home & Hospital Teachers.
These employees are eligible for unemployment benefits and the stimulus check.
Anonymous
04/01/2020 23:28
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nasty, nasty OP.
Grow up, teacher. Your comments are really immature.
I'm not a teacher, I'm a parent, and I agree that OP is the problem. Parents like OP really drag community down on a regular basis. I wish they would move away.
If it bothers you, why do you come on these threads?
Anonymous
04/01/2020 21:42
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't mind them being paid. But it seems like teachers just don't understand what the rest of us are going through either being laid off or working full time plus telework.
I think they should have to work in the summer if this ends in June. July and August could be 2 months of instruction.
Would they be paid additional money or just have a reduced school day to make up for the hours they are working now?
DP.. they could make the hours reduced in summer school.
Many teachers have been working their usual hours at home anyway. They helped students work through the online lessons given on 3/13. Others served on committees trying to plan for distance learning. You would need to pay them extra if school was open this summer. See how you like your taxes then.
Depends on the school system. In MCPS the first contact we had with our teachers was today. It is an MCPS curriculum not something the teachers did.
Another MCPS parent here. We have had contact for the past 2 weeks. Our teachers are amazing.
Anonymous
04/01/2020 21:37
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:I for one would like to thank all the teachers out there who are attempting to make the best of terrible situation. The rude and insulting comments from the parents on here are truly disgusting. These teachers are clearly not in this profession for the money. They spend more time with your kids than you do and in the midst of a pandemic you feel it’s the best time to criticize their work ethic and attack their character.
That is because they cannot deal with the brats THEY chose to have during a time when there is NO CONTROL over ANYTHING. You had them now deal with it. I am hispanic and feel a lot of white parents view teachers or daycare or other public positions as slaves for their brats. We are in an emergency. People are dying and you want other's to put their neck out and work for your brats to your specifications?? Typical white privilege.
Anonymous
04/01/2020 21:33
Subject: Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
Anonymous wrote:I for one would like to thank all the teachers out there who are attempting to make the best of terrible situation. The rude and insulting comments from the parents on here are truly disgusting. These teachers are clearly not in this profession for the money. They spend more time with your kids than you do and in the midst of a pandemic you feel it’s the best time to criticize their work ethic and attack their character.
+1
OP and the likes of her make me sick. I am thankful to the teachers who are doing their best.
--signed a SAHM with 2 kids in ES.