‘WE ARE DROWNING’: HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS RALLY AGAINST UNDERSTAFFING

For more than a half hour, hundreds of cars driven by Montgomery County Education Association members circled the large Montgomery County Public Schools’ (MCPS) Board of Education parking lot and drove out into the street. They were rallying to demand the hiring of additional teachers, bus drivers and other support personnel. They also urged MCPS to honor their contract which grants them periods to plan, grade and eat lunch or at least compensate them for the extra work.

Claudia Gargiulo, a seventh and eight grade Spanish teacher at Cabin John Middle School, called her workload “suffocating.”

Gargiulo, who has taught at MCPS for 10 years, said she feels bad standing at the microwave for two minutes to warm up her lunch. Besides her normal five classes, she now is being asked to take on a sixth class. Add that to her morning duties and after school meetings on Mondays, and “our pace in working is frenetic,” she said...

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