2025 - MCPS's worst year yet

[Anonymous]

I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

[Anonymous]

Just stop.
Homeschool or leave the rest of us with brains know our children get a great education at MCPS.

Move to a red state like Alabama or MO or omg Oklahoma just loves the dummies ...you will fit right in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

Yes, he’s getting a piece of skull reattached, since they had to remove it to give brain space to reduce from the swelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

DP

I dgaf about the magnet programs, but it seems almost certain they will cut resources for the existing magnets "for equity" (their excuse for everything regardless of whether or not it makes any sense).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just stop.
Homeschool or leave the rest of us with brains know our children get a great education at MCPS.

Move to a red state like Alabama or MO or omg Oklahoma just loves the dummies ...you will fit right in.

Very inclusive of you.

[Anonymous]

I’m a democrat and I agree with everything on OP’s list. I am so glad my kids are nearly done with MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, no one any good will want the superintendent job.

Naw, we can get a better superintendent (bar is low, I admit). The school board just needs to fire him on a timely basis, so they have enough time to attract more candidates and vet them properly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just stop.
Homeschool or leave the rest of us with brains know our children get a great education at MCPS.

Move to a red state like Alabama or MO or omg Oklahoma just loves the dummies ...you will fit right in.

You must work for Taylor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

My guess is that they will be very watered down. It’s quite unfortunate because this will likely decrease opportunities for lower income regions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

Yes, he’s getting a piece of skull reattached, since they had to remove it to give brain space to reduce from the swelling.

This was so terrible and so mishandled. And the student who hurt him needs to be expelled and sent to one of the county schools for severe behavior problems. I heard she was back in school quickly with no real consequences. Sure you can argue she didn’t mean for the kind of damage that was caused-but she didn’t in fact hit him with a hard object to in fact hurt him-so the severity of the result shouldn’t matter. The kid is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed to stay in the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

Yes, he’s getting a piece of skull reattached, since they had to remove it to give brain space to reduce from the swelling.

This was so terrible and so mishandled. And the student who hurt him needs to be expelled and sent to one of the county schools for severe behavior problems. I heard she was back in school quickly with no real consequences. Sure you can argue she didn’t mean for the kind of damage that was caused-but she didn’t in fact hit him with a hard object to in fact hurt him-so the severity of the result shouldn’t matter. The kid is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed to stay in the school.

Nothing right about the outcomes of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

Yes, he’s getting a piece of skull reattached, since they had to remove it to give brain space to reduce from the swelling.

This was so terrible and so mishandled. And the student who hurt him needs to be expelled and sent to one of the county schools for severe behavior problems. I heard she was back in school quickly with no real consequences. Sure you can argue she didn’t mean for the kind of damage that was caused-but she didn’t in fact hit him with a hard object to in fact hurt him-so the severity of the result shouldn’t matter. The kid is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed to stay in the school.

Should say “did in fact-not didn’t”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

My guess is that they will be very watered down. It’s quite unfortunate because this will likely decrease opportunities for lower income regions.

They will absolutely be watered down. evidently, equity to the superintendent is doing away with excellence and hoping that somehow, this will help students with lower academic outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is 2025 the worst year in MCPS history?

They sued parents and lost in the supreme court.

They didn’t pay teachers on time for summer school.

They didn’t have current background checks for thousands of employees.

They paid a teacher half a million dollars for making up lies about him.

An MCPS student tragically died by being hit by an MCPS school bus.

Multiple schools have had to close due to flooding due to years of neglect.

They announced that they plan to redistrict every school with blatant lies and zero transparency.

They announced the new school that taxpayers funded will be used as a holding school.

An MCPS student was attacked with a deadly weapon by an intruder at a high school and the school and district engaged in a cover up.

An MCPS middle school student was hospitalized after being attacked by another MCPS student and the school and district engaged in a cover up.

The attorney general found gross misuse of funds and not following MCPS’s own protocols while spending taxpayer money.

They changed the grading policy to ensure grade inflation.

They spent millions of dollars without Board approval.

They announced the abrupt closing of a large middle school, only to attempt to walk it back.

Multiple articles in the news about egregious student behavior that permeates elementary schools.

They prematurely announced the closing of the only charter school in the district.

I’ve been involved in this system for a long time, and I cannot remember a year as awful as this one.

$168,000,000 spent on illegal electric bus contract.