Roscoe Nix situation creates headache for Felder and Board

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Anonymous wrote:Did the extra school days result in better academic performance? If yes, then it's worth it. Cut central office spending, maybe don't keep hiring expensive consultants to do useless audits like the racism audit. You know what would help poor black/brown kids more than a racist audit? Better and more instruction.

If it isn't working, then cut it. Waste of money, like the racism audit.

Can you people please read? It's in the quoted excerpt in this thread if you're too lazy to click the link.

read what? The WaPo article behind the paywall? And it wasn't in the OP.

Do you have a government job that you can just watch youtube videos of a boe meeting for that lasts for an hour or more and then post on here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most did not want the Nix program. They had a ton of families and staff go to the BOE meeting and testify that. It sounds like a few teachers want if due to income.

Read the article.

The most recent evaluation did not include surveys of parent feedback. An evaluation from the 2021-2022 school year found that 71 percent of parents reported that the program “works for me and my family.” Sixty-one percent said they preferred the innovative school calendar compared with a traditional calendar.

So it sounds like, as is often the case with MCPS, that a loud minority dominated the conversation while the silent majority was not included in the conversation with the board.

It's an article and no, because I cannot access it. If they wanted it to stay, they should have testified at the BOE or submitted letters. 2021 is several years ago. How about current numbers?

Oh article is posted. A few teachers are tantruming because they are losing their summer income. That does not speak for the majority.

Over 50 teachers is more than a few.

Ok, then they should have been at the BOE meeting. They are upset over losing summer income. Thats unfortunate but not a good enough reason to force families to summer school who don't want it.

I agree. But also, I don't think they're mad at the year-round calendar going away. They're more mad that they were initially told they'd have more time to prepare for it going away.

Prepare for what. It was announced at the BOE meeting and they should have started their job search then.

The email to the staff said the 2025-2026 school year. You can see it quoted in the original post.....Y'all really cannot read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they disaggregated the results, there were improvements at Arcola but not at Nix. But the real issue is that the board/MCPS made a dumb typo. But the teachers were also dumb for not noticing that what was being discussed was not the same as was written and asking for clarification.[b] ESH.

ESH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most did not want the Nix program. They had a ton of families and staff go to the BOE meeting and testify that. It sounds like a few teachers want if due to income.

Read the article.

The most recent evaluation did not include surveys of parent feedback. An evaluation from the 2021-2022 school year found that 71 percent of parents reported that the program “works for me and my family.” Sixty-one percent said they preferred the innovative school calendar compared with a traditional calendar.

So it sounds like, as is often the case with MCPS, that a loud minority dominated the conversation while the silent majority was not included in the conversation with the board.

Election day is tomorrow for BOE. Make your voice heard.

I have to admit I hadn’t planned on voting tomorrow, but now I will because the BOE needs updating.

[Anonymous]

It never should have adopted an “innovative” calendar. There’s zero compelling evidence that year round schools increase student achievement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did the extra school days result in better academic performance? If yes, then it's worth it. Cut central office spending, maybe don't keep hiring expensive consultants to do useless audits like the racism audit. You know what would help poor black/brown kids more than a racist audit? Better and more instruction.

If it isn't working, then cut it. Waste of money, like the racism audit.

Can you people please read? It's in the quoted excerpt in this thread if you're too lazy to click the link.

read what? The WaPo article behind the paywall? And it wasn't in the OP.

Do you have a government job that you can just watch youtube videos of a boe meeting for that lasts for an hour or more and then post on here?

No, I watched it live as that boe meeting impacted us. See how it works.