Why doesn't the BOE speak up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they have to say re schools being closed for a week?

What are you expecting them to say? There was a significant weather event, case closed!

You forgot the part about being horribly managed by MCPS leadership. I think that's worth the BoE addressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is on the County Council and MDOT, not MCPS.

The county cleared the roads well enough for everything else to open. This is on MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they have to say re schools being closed for a week?

What are you expecting them to say? There was a significant weather event, case closed!

You forgot the part about being horribly managed by MCPS leadership. I think that's worth the BoE addressing.

I've got a few questions for the BoE:
1) Why did MCPS build in only 1 snow day into the calendar when we had 4 snow days last year, that resulted in loss of instructional time as they were made up as half-days in June?
2) Why isn't there more automatic action in the school calendar, to instruct MCPS to use the next available makeup days built into the calendar earlier in the school year when kids can benefit from instructional time, rather than allowing so much discretion to add them as half-days in June?
3) Why didn't MCPS submitted the Virtual Learning Plan for Snow Emergencies that it proposed to the Board that it would do in 2024? Why didn't BOE follow up on the lack of submission to MSDE, given that other school districts in Maryland like Baltimore and Anne Arundel have had plans approved and submitted that allowed them to deploy virtual learning last week when MCPS was closed?
4) Given that there was over a week's warning for this storm, why didn't MCPS central office instruct schools to ensure students took home their Chromebooks?

[Anonymous]

They are not required to make statements in response to DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are not required to make statements in response to DCUM.

Oh! We didn't know that. Thanks for explaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are not required to make statements in response to DCUM.

Oh! We didn't know that. Thanks for explaining.

I’m glad after 9 snow threads that we have this breakthrough. Maybe it will prevent thread number 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they have to say re schools being closed for a week?

What are you expecting them to say? There was a significant weather event, case closed!

You forgot the part about being horribly managed by MCPS leadership. I think that's worth the BoE addressing.

I've got a few questions for the BoE:
1) Why did MCPS build in only 1 snow day into the calendar when we had 4 snow days last year, that resulted in loss of instructional time as they were made up as half-days in June?
2) Why isn't there more automatic action in the school calendar, to instruct MCPS to use the next available makeup days built into the calendar earlier in the school year when kids can benefit from instructional time, rather than allowing so much discretion to add them as half-days in June?
3) Why didn't MCPS submitted the Virtual Learning Plan for Snow Emergencies that it proposed to the Board that it would do in 2024? Why didn't BOE follow up on the lack of submission to MSDE, given that other school districts in Maryland like Baltimore and Anne Arundel have had plans approved and submitted that allowed them to deploy virtual learning last week when MCPS was closed?
4) Given that there was over a week's warning for this storm, why didn't MCPS central office instruct schools to ensure students took home their Chromebooks?

There are lots of good reasons for (3) and (4). (1) and (2) are obvious cases of incompetence, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are not required to make statements in response to DCUM.

Oh! We didn't know that. Thanks for explaining.

I’m glad after 9 snow threads that we have this breakthrough. Maybe it will prevent thread number 10.

Perhaps there are so many threads, because people are upset as to how this snow event has been managed. Just a theory...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is on the County Council and MDOT, not MCPS.

The county cleared the roads well enough for everything else to open. This is on MCPS.

Things are open? Yes.

Things are well attended/patronized in areas with poor road & sidewalk clearing (whether rural, densely-packed suburban reliant on on-street parking or disfavored downtown without robust private/chamber of commerce-sponsored cleanup)? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they have to say re schools being closed for a week?

What are you expecting them to say? There was a significant weather event, case closed!

You forgot the part about being horribly managed by MCPS leadership. I think that's worth the BoE addressing.

Can you provide specific examples or the current leadership?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are not required to make statements in response to DCUM.

Oh! We didn't know that. Thanks for explaining.

I’m glad after 9 snow threads that we have this breakthrough. Maybe it will prevent thread number 10.

Perhaps there are so many threads, because people are upset as to how this snow event has been managed. Just a theory...

There are over 150,000 parents with children enrolled in MCPS. A few dozen posters hardly represents consensus. A few posters admittedly don’t have children enrolled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they have to say re schools being closed for a week?

What are you expecting them to say? There was a significant weather event, case closed!

You forgot the part about being horribly managed by MCPS leadership. I think that's worth the BoE addressing.

I've got a few questions for the BoE:
1) Why did MCPS build in only 1 snow day into the calendar when we had 4 snow days last year, that resulted in loss of instructional time as they were made up as half-days in June?
2) Why isn't there more automatic action in the school calendar, to instruct MCPS to use the next available makeup days built into the calendar earlier in the school year when kids can benefit from instructional time, rather than allowing so much discretion to add them as half-days in June?
3) Why didn't MCPS submitted the Virtual Learning Plan for Snow Emergencies that it proposed to the Board that it would do in 2024? Why didn't BOE follow up on the lack of submission to MSDE, given that other school districts in Maryland like Baltimore and Anne Arundel have had plans approved and submitted that allowed them to deploy virtual learning last week when MCPS was closed?
4) Given that there was over a week's warning for this storm, why didn't MCPS central office instruct schools to ensure students took home their Chromebooks?

Yawn. This has all been answered ad nauseam on this forum already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they have to say re schools being closed for a week?

What are you expecting them to say? There was a significant weather event, case closed!

You forgot the part about being horribly managed by MCPS leadership. I think that's worth the BoE addressing.

I've got a few questions for the BoE:
1) Why did MCPS build in only 1 snow day into the calendar when we had 4 snow days last year, that resulted in loss of instructional time as they were made up as half-days in June?
2) Why isn't there more automatic action in the school calendar, to instruct MCPS to use the next available makeup days built into the calendar earlier in the school year when kids can benefit from instructional time, rather than allowing so much discretion to add them as half-days in June?
3) Why didn't MCPS submitted the Virtual Learning Plan for Snow Emergencies that it proposed to the Board that it would do in 2024? Why didn't BOE follow up on the lack of submission to MSDE, given that other school districts in Maryland like Baltimore and Anne Arundel have had plans approved and submitted that allowed them to deploy virtual learning last week when MCPS was closed?
4) Given that there was over a week's warning for this storm, why didn't MCPS central office instruct schools to ensure students took home their Chromebooks?

Yawn. This has all been answered ad nauseam on this forum already.

No it hasn’t. But since you send so much time on this forum and think it’s all known, maybe you can enlighten us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are not required to make statements in response to DCUM.

Oh! We didn't know that. Thanks for explaining.

I’m glad after 9 snow threads that we have this breakthrough. Maybe it will prevent thread number 10.

Perhaps there are so many threads, because people are upset as to how this snow event has been managed. Just a theory...

There are over 150,000 parents with children enrolled in MCPS. A few dozen posters hardly represents consensus. A few posters admittedly don’t have children enrolled.

There’s over 10,000 views for some of the many threads on the McPS snowdays. Only the moderator of DCUM knows for sure, but I doubt that all this traffic comes from a dozen people.

Also, there’s no way to know if people posting do or don’t have children, but there seem to be a lot of people who claim to be McPS staff posting, and perhaps some of them don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is on the County Council and MDOT, not MCPS.

The county cleared the roads well enough for everything else to open. This is on MCPS.

Things are open? Yes.

Things are well attended/patronized in areas with poor road & sidewalk clearing (whether rural, densely-packed suburban reliant on on-street parking or disfavored downtown without robust private/chamber of commerce-sponsored cleanup)? No.

It is evident you didn't venture outside of your house last week.