Sign Petition Asking for Boundaries Now, Programs Later

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

You seem really triggered by other people advocating for their communities. We're not going to stop just because you want us to stfu.

DP. But pot…kettle…African American.

Huh? I have no problem with up county advocating for itself. PP doesn't seem to want to do that, just attack DCC parents.

Funny how so many people are so angry the DCC doesn't want to lose its programs but nobody has a problem with all the special classes at wealthy schools that most other schools don't have.

What makes you believe that people don’t have problems with the wealthy schools have classes that others can’t access? Once again ya’ll seem to be making statements that are false in nature without doing any research to understand the other parts of the district? Oh and no one said you had to stop advocating for your community. What they said was they wouldn’t be joining you since you’ve made it crystal clear in you and the DCC against everyone else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

You seem really triggered by other people advocating for their communities. We're not going to stop just because you want us to stfu.

DP. But pot…kettle…African American.

Huh? I have no problem with up county advocating for itself. PP doesn't seem to want to do that, just attack DCC parents.

Funny how so many people are so angry the DCC doesn't want to lose its programs but nobody has a problem with all the special classes at wealthy schools that most other schools don't have.

What makes you believe that people don’t have problems with the wealthy schools have classes that others can’t access? Once again ya’ll seem to be making statements that are false in nature without doing any research to understand the other parts of the district? Oh and no one said you had to stop advocating for your community. What they said was they wouldn’t be joining you since you’ve made it crystal clear in you and the DCC against everyone else.

That's not what's in the letter. That is a narrative you have created in your head. Sorry you won't be joining us but it sounds like you are not aligned with us and frankly just have animus towards the DCC. Maybe you work for CO since they clearly do too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

You seem really triggered by other people advocating for their communities. We're not going to stop just because you want us to stfu.

DP. But pot…kettle…African American.

Huh? I have no problem with up county advocating for itself. PP doesn't seem to want to do that, just attack DCC parents.

Funny how so many people are so angry the DCC doesn't want to lose its programs but nobody has a problem with all the special classes at wealthy schools that most other schools don't have.

What makes you believe that people don’t have problems with the wealthy schools have classes that others can’t access? Once again ya’ll seem to be making statements that are false in nature without doing any research to understand the other parts of the district? Oh and no one said you had to stop advocating for your community. What they said was they wouldn’t be joining you since you’ve made it crystal clear in you and the DCC against everyone else.

You clearly don't have an issue with it based on the comments. We understand what our schools are lacking and this will create a further divide.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

You seem really triggered by other people advocating for their communities. We're not going to stop just because you want us to stfu.

DP. But pot…kettle…African American.

Huh? I have no problem with up county advocating for itself. PP doesn't seem to want to do that, just attack DCC parents.

Funny how so many people are so angry the DCC doesn't want to lose its programs but nobody has a problem with all the special classes at wealthy schools that most other schools don't have.

What makes you believe that people don’t have problems with the wealthy schools have classes that others can’t access? Once again ya’ll seem to be making statements that are false in nature without doing any research to understand the other parts of the district? Oh and no one said you had to stop advocating for your community. What they said was they wouldn’t be joining you since you’ve made it crystal clear in you and the DCC against everyone else.

Huh? What makes it seem like it's the DCC versus everyone else? It's a petition from DCC folks calling for a better regional program process and fairer boundaries. That helps everyone, right? (Except for rich people/schools who are overly favored now, but even there, it's still probably only going to affect a small number of people negatively.). Super confused why upcounty people are taking a down-county petition as some kind of attack on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

MCCPTA has always only represented its interests and not the greater good. No surprise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

You seem really triggered by other people advocating for their communities. We're not going to stop just because you want us to stfu.

DP. But pot…kettle…African American.

Huh? I have no problem with up county advocating for itself. PP doesn't seem to want to do that, just attack DCC parents.

Funny how so many people are so angry the DCC doesn't want to lose its programs but nobody has a problem with all the special classes at wealthy schools that most other schools don't have.

What makes you believe that people don’t have problems with the wealthy schools have classes that others can’t access? Once again ya’ll seem to be making statements that are false in nature without doing any research to understand the other parts of the district? Oh and no one said you had to stop advocating for your community. What they said was they wouldn’t be joining you since you’ve made it crystal clear in you and the DCC against everyone else.

Huh? What makes it seem like it's the DCC versus everyone else? It's a petition from DCC folks calling for a better regional program process and fairer boundaries. That helps everyone, right? (Except for rich people/schools who are overly favored now, but even there, it's still probably only going to affect a small number of people negatively.). Super confused why upcounty people are taking a down-county petition as some kind of attack on them.

They assume everyone wants to go to their schools, but cannot afford it and we should be grateful to have our kids bussed to their schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

MCCPTA has always only represented its interests and not the greater good. No surprise.

MCCPTA is made up of a bunch of volunteers. They do not have funding or infrastructure to do the kind of community engagement that MCPS should be doing. They do what they can with what they have. You should participate if you feel your voice isn't heard.

[Anonymous]

The DCC very much doesn’t want to lose the school choice it has. Other schools want the school choice the DCC has. MCPS (maybe for budgetary reasons or bc they realize school choice doesn’t do much for education beyond furthering segregation) has tied the regional programs (more limited school choice than what the DCC had, but more than other regions had) to the end of the consortia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

You seem really triggered by other people advocating for their communities. We're not going to stop just because you want us to stfu.

DP. But pot…kettle…African American.

Huh? I have no problem with up county advocating for itself. PP doesn't seem to want to do that, just attack DCC parents.

Funny how so many people are so angry the DCC doesn't want to lose its programs but nobody has a problem with all the special classes at wealthy schools that most other schools don't have.

What makes you believe that people don’t have problems with the wealthy schools have classes that others can’t access? Once again ya’ll seem to be making statements that are false in nature without doing any research to understand the other parts of the district? Oh and no one said you had to stop advocating for your community. What they said was they wouldn’t be joining you since you’ve made it crystal clear in you and the DCC against everyone else.

Huh? What makes it seem like it's the DCC versus everyone else? It's a petition from DCC folks calling for a better regional program process and fairer boundaries. That helps everyone, right? (Except for rich people/schools who are overly favored now, but even there, it's still probably only going to affect a small number of people negatively.). Super confused why upcounty people are taking a down-county petition as some kind of attack on them.

They assume everyone wants to go to their schools, but cannot afford it and we should be grateful to have our kids bussed to their schools.

I am not a DCC advocate but just to understand, why is “they”? It feels like there is a portion of schools who are not being heard. I’m interested in what the rest of the county outside of region 1 is thinking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

MCCPTA has always only represented its interests and not the greater good. No surprise.

MCCPTA is made up of a bunch of volunteers. They do not have funding or infrastructure to do the kind of community engagement that MCPS should be doing. They do what they can with what they have. You should participate if you feel your voice isn't heard.

Of course they do and they get a huge amount from the local PTA’s to fund things.

[Anonymous]

“Why” should be “who”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DCC very much doesn’t want to lose the school choice it has. Other schools want the school choice the DCC has. MCPS (maybe for budgetary reasons or bc they realize school choice doesn’t do much for education beyond furthering segregation) has tied the regional programs (more limited school choice than what the DCC had, but more than other regions had) to the end of the consortia.

Leave the DCC and create consortiums with those schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The DCC very much doesn’t want to lose the school choice it has. Other schools want the school choice the DCC has. MCPS (maybe for budgetary reasons or bc they realize school choice doesn’t do much for education beyond furthering segregation) has tied the regional programs (more limited school choice than what the DCC had, but more than other regions had) to the end of the consortia.

Leave the DCC and create consortiums with those schools.

What? Leave the DCC alone? It’s going to be in two separate regions. You want the DCC to be the only region that doesn’t follow the regional boundaries? Huh?

[Anonymous]

They should leave the DCC and NEC alone and make consortia in the rest of the county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bullshit letter. We see right through this hey keep all the rich white school is the same and don’t rush anything else. GTFO

Huh? How'd you get that from the petition? It's not about favoring rich white schools at all. Did you read it?

NP- As an upcounty resident who read the petition and the comments about 50 MCCPTA delegates, I won’t be signing this petition despite agreeing with some of its points. Why? Because it seems to overwhelming focus on certain areas and not take into account the needs of many others parts of the county. This is evident by calling out Silver Spring and the DCC without even a bit of acknowledgement that others in the boundary studies experience split articulations. Further, 50 MCCPTA delegates when there is more than 200 schools, mean there vote represents less than 1/4 of the districts schools.

Folks are constantly talking about MCPS needing to reach out and communicate more and better. Seems the same can be said for this effort against MCPS.

You seem really triggered by other people advocating for their communities. We're not going to stop just because you want us to stfu.

DP. But pot…kettle…African American.

Huh? I have no problem with up county advocating for itself. PP doesn't seem to want to do that, just attack DCC parents.

Funny how so many people are so angry the DCC doesn't want to lose its programs but nobody has a problem with all the special classes at wealthy schools that most other schools don't have.

What makes you believe that people don’t have problems with the wealthy schools have classes that others can’t access? Once again ya’ll seem to be making statements that are false in nature without doing any research to understand the other parts of the district? Oh and no one said you had to stop advocating for your community. What they said was they wouldn’t be joining you since you’ve made it crystal clear in you and the DCC against everyone else.

Huh? What makes it seem like it's the DCC versus everyone else? It's a petition from DCC folks calling for a better regional program process and fairer boundaries. That helps everyone, right? (Except for rich people/schools who are overly favored now, but even there, it's still probably only going to affect a small number of people negatively.). Super confused why upcounty people are taking a down-county petition as some kind of attack on them.

They assume everyone wants to go to their schools, but cannot afford it and we should be grateful to have our kids bussed to their schools.

I am not a DCC advocate but just to understand, why is “they”? It feels like there is a portion of schools who are not being heard. I’m interested in what the rest of the county outside of region 1 is thinking.

Then go ask them? Why do you expect other parents to go around and survey other parts of the county and then report back on DCUM?