10/16 Board of Ed meeting
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Anonymous
I think it is great the BCC has raised all this money to help kids. This is a good thing. The problem is when the impact of this money leads MCPS to invest more resources in BCC because its programs are so "successful" and choose not to invest in other schools that can't raise that amount of money from parents. That is how inequity feeds off of itself. |
Anonymous
This is true, and the reason many send their kids to immersion schools despite already speaking the language. |
Anonymous
No, they said that's still to come. But Taylor suggested that the middle school program changes would be minor. |
Anonymous
The BOE buys everything that MCPS tells them. They are a full rubber-stamp operation. |
Anonymous
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The community is not upset because “change can feel uncertain,” as MCPS keeps trying to message. We are upset because there has been no outreach to those who would be most impacted (students in grades 4–7 and their parents) by this proposed plan, and consequently few are even aware of the massive changes that would affect them.
The plan makes inequity worse. Few high FARMS URMs would travel to the HSs where most criteria-based programs would be housed. This will lessen diversity in those schools. Additionally the plan would take away access to renowned, established programs, and sequester many to attend inferior substitutes, thereby increasing inequity, The sample model budget is just a sliver of the enormous amount of taxpayer money this proposed plan will cost. Many communities would be disrupted and placed into regions without being given opportunities to have a meaningful voice and influence. Just like that BOE member would not want an involuntary transfer to teach ELD just because she is certified in it, many communities do not want to be involuntarily transferred into a region they did not consent to. It makes much more sense to build more programs in areas that demonstrate want or need, and put the money towards fixing the inequity: strengthen K–8 core subjects in all schools. |
Anonymous
What percentage of your students are illiterate in their home languages? Are there not any EML students that are academically advanced but face a a language barrier? Because obviously, not all students (not even all the White English speaking ones) are taking IB exams. So do you really think there aren't any students that benefit from being able to take IB exams in their home languages? Like all the EML students are illiterate and bring no assets to our community? |
Anonymous
link doesn't work |
Anonymous
It was when they posted it earlier. Strange. |
Anonymous
1,000 percent this. |
Anonymous
+1. This is going to be an utter mess. |
Anonymous
https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMHTYU79B310/$file/10.16.25%20BOE%20Presentation%20-%20Boundary%20Study%20and%20Program%20Analysis%20REV.pdf |
Anonymous
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Chart from chat gbt on medium taxes paid.
Estimated Median Annual Property Taxes by High School Cluster High School Cluster Median Home Value Estimated Median Annual Property Tax Walt Whitman $990,000 $8,613 Winston Churchill $905,000 $7,873 Bethesda-Chevy Chase (BCC) $830,000 $7,221 Thomas S. Wootton $700,000 $6,090 Montgomery Blair (Silver Spring) $650,000 $5,655 Walter Johnson $560,000 $4,872 James Hubert Blake (Silver Spring) $550,000 $4,785 Richard Montgomery $510,000 $4,437 John F. Kennedy (Silver Spring) $500,000 $4,350 Quince Orchard $420,000 $3,654 Springbrook (Silver Spring) $450,000 $3,915 Northwood (Silver Spring) $475,000 $4,138 Gaithersburg $365,000 $3,175 Northwest $345,000 $3,002 Wheaton (Silver Spring) $425,000 $3,698 Albert Einstein (Silver Spring) $400,000 $3,480 Poolesville $375,000 $3,263 Damascus $350,000 $3,045 Clarksburg $325,000 $2,907 Seneca Valley $300,000 $2,610 Watkins Mill $275,000 $2,393 Paint Branch $250,000 $2,175 Blair High School (Silver Spring) $650,000 $5,655 |
Anonymous
You just used a bunch of electricity to produce this. Did you think it would be useful in some way? It's not. |
Anonymous
Yes, this! As a former teacher and current elementary parent, I have been dismayed by MCPS. We moved to Montgomery County for the schools, and I have been dismayed at the many of the curricular choices of MCPS, especially Benchmark, which was horrible. I have had to take a far more active role in homeschooling my kids than I ever imagined I would take as a full-time working parent to make up for curricular gaps and ensure my kids have a well-rounded education. I’m dismayed at the excessive screen time and movies shown at school, the preponderance of low-quality graphic novels, the lack of novel study, the substitute teachers who have shown my elementary student Mr. Beast videos and other garbage on YouTube instead of teaching, etc. I believe in the value of public education, and I am the child of a public school teacher. I received an excellent public education myself, and I am dismayed at the state of public education here in MoCo. I don’t know if it’s just this area or if it’s the impact of what ed tech has done to education, but I understand now why so many families turn to private school. When we have such terrible test scores, why on earth are they focusing on creating excessively complex, specialty programming? How about ensuring each high school has high-quality curriculum, enough teachers and paraeductors, and strong AP classes, humanities and arts programming, etc. They don’t need a new regional programming model, they need to get back to the very basics of providing a high-quality public education for all students. |
Anonymous
It is when Blair families pay more than WJ families. |