FCPS statement on NMF issue

[Anonymous]

FCPS's response makes it look like a hopeless bureaucratic mess. It can basically be summarized as:

1. NMSC notified FCPS about commended students on Sept. 15.
2. 15 FCPS high schools notified their commended students by Nov. 1, and 8 FCPS high schools notified their commended students after Nov. 1, with the latest occurring in mid January.
3. Although NMSC stated that students should be informed "as soon as possible," NMSC did not provide a specific deadline or a specific method of informing students. Obviously, a FCPS high school could not possibly figure out how to distribute good news to its students in less than 1.5 months.
4. FCPS is working on a "draft regulation" to make uniform process and deadline to distributing commended information. The entire process of informing students though seems to be that the principal just signs a certificate and gives it to the student.
5. FCPS is asking NMSC to directly email students to alleviate FCPS from the burden forwarding information and signing certificates.

It strikes me as weird in general that FCPS presents no reason why it takes 6 weeks (or more) to simply forward information and sign certificates. FCPS should want to celebrate the success of its students, but instead believes that the signing of a few certificates is some hopelessly burdensome task that it could not possibly undertake without district-wide policies.

[Anonymous]

This whole thing is unnecessary paperwork.

NMSC should just directly email students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think ita ridiculous how mych they soend on outside lawnfirms and consultant, when they have 19,999 people working at gatehouse.

They had to use an outside firm. If they had used FCPS employees, people would complain that it was not independent and there was a cover-up, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS's response makes it look like a hopeless bureaucratic mess. It can basically be summarized as:

1. NMSC notified FCPS about commended students on Sept. 15.
2. 15 FCPS high schools notified their commended students by Nov. 1, and 8 FCPS high schools notified their commended students after Nov. 1, with the latest occurring in mid January.
3. Although NMSC stated that students should be informed "as soon as possible," NMSC did not provide a specific deadline or a specific method of informing students. Obviously, a FCPS high school could not possibly figure out how to distribute good news to its students in less than 1.5 months.
4. FCPS is working on a "draft regulation" to make uniform process and deadline to distributing commended information. The entire process of informing students though seems to be that the principal just signs a certificate and gives it to the student.
5. FCPS is asking NMSC to directly email students to alleviate FCPS from the burden forwarding information and signing certificates.

It strikes me as weird in general that FCPS presents no reason why it takes 6 weeks (or more) to simply forward information and sign certificates. FCPS should want to celebrate the success of its students, but instead believes that the signing of a few certificates is some hopelessly burdensome task that it could not possibly undertake without district-wide policies.

Why should they be responsible for doing a private organization’s work at all?

[Anonymous]

And remember this is for Commended students - the real award is semi finalists and they were notified and celebrated by FCPS. The right wing attacks that made FCPS have to spend money and time on this are infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS's response makes it look like a hopeless bureaucratic mess. It can basically be summarized as:

1. NMSC notified FCPS about commended students on Sept. 15.
2. 15 FCPS high schools notified their commended students by Nov. 1, and 8 FCPS high schools notified their commended students after Nov. 1, with the latest occurring in mid January.
3. Although NMSC stated that students should be informed "as soon as possible," NMSC did not provide a specific deadline or a specific method of informing students. Obviously, a FCPS high school could not possibly figure out how to distribute good news to its students in less than 1.5 months.
4. FCPS is working on a "draft regulation" to make uniform process and deadline to distributing commended information. The entire process of informing students though seems to be that the principal just signs a certificate and gives it to the student.
5. FCPS is asking NMSC to directly email students to alleviate FCPS from the burden forwarding information and signing certificates.

It strikes me as weird in general that FCPS presents no reason why it takes 6 weeks (or more) to simply forward information and sign certificates. FCPS should want to celebrate the success of its students, but instead believes that the signing of a few certificates is some hopelessly burdensome task that it could not possibly undertake without district-wide policies.

Why should they be responsible for doing a private organization’s work at all?

Yes! I’m glad Reid wrote the NMSC and encouraged them to use electronic notification directly to students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And remember this is for Commended students - the real award is semi finalists and they were notified and celebrated by FCPS. The right wing attacks that made FCPS have to spend money and time on this are infuriating.

EXACTLY!

Fun fact-

The TJ parents who were whining about this have kids who are not all that brilliant. They were probably hoping to have their child apply test optional and (wrongly) thought that “commended” would help. Fun fact - coming from TJ if your child is not NMSF, they would be better off at their base school.

[Anonymous]

Is this statement incorrect? In the key finding, "...NMSC notified Semifinalists directly of their award status..."

My understanding -
semi finalists are NOT notified by NMSC. Information to apply is sent to the school.
Finalists are notified by NMSC.

However, semifinalists are acknowledged and celebrated by FCPS in their news. That's how my child found out, in the news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS's response makes it look like a hopeless bureaucratic mess. It can basically be summarized as:

1. NMSC notified FCPS about commended students on Sept. 15.
2. 15 FCPS high schools notified their commended students by Nov. 1, and 8 FCPS high schools notified their commended students after Nov. 1, with the latest occurring in mid January.
3. Although NMSC stated that students should be informed "as soon as possible," NMSC did not provide a specific deadline or a specific method of informing students. Obviously, a FCPS high school could not possibly figure out how to distribute good news to its students in less than 1.5 months.
4. FCPS is working on a "draft regulation" to make uniform process and deadline to distributing commended information. The entire process of informing students though seems to be that the principal just signs a certificate and gives it to the student.
5. FCPS is asking NMSC to directly email students to alleviate FCPS from the burden forwarding information and signing certificates.

It strikes me as weird in general that FCPS presents no reason why it takes 6 weeks (or more) to simply forward information and sign certificates. FCPS should want to celebrate the success of its students, but instead believes that the signing of a few certificates is some hopelessly burdensome task that it could not possibly undertake without district-wide policies.

Why should they be responsible for doing a private organization’s work at all?

Yes! I’m glad Reid wrote the NMSC and encouraged them to use electronic notification directly to students.

+1

Stupidest “issue” ever. Can’t the Republicans find something better to do with their time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS's response makes it look like a hopeless bureaucratic mess. It can basically be summarized as:

1. NMSC notified FCPS about commended students on Sept. 15.
2. 15 FCPS high schools notified their commended students by Nov. 1, and 8 FCPS high schools notified their commended students after Nov. 1, with the latest occurring in mid January.
3. Although NMSC stated that students should be informed "as soon as possible," NMSC did not provide a specific deadline or a specific method of informing students. Obviously, a FCPS high school could not possibly figure out how to distribute good news to its students in less than 1.5 months.
4. FCPS is working on a "draft regulation" to make uniform process and deadline to distributing commended information. The entire process of informing students though seems to be that the principal just signs a certificate and gives it to the student.
5. FCPS is asking NMSC to directly email students to alleviate FCPS from the burden forwarding information and signing certificates.

It strikes me as weird in general that FCPS presents no reason why it takes 6 weeks (or more) to simply forward information and sign certificates. FCPS should want to celebrate the success of its students, but instead believes that the signing of a few certificates is some hopelessly burdensome task that it could not possibly undertake without district-wide policies.

Why should they be responsible for doing a private organization’s work at all?

Yes! I’m glad Reid wrote the NMSC and encouraged them to use electronic notification directly to students.

+1

Stupidest “issue” ever. Can’t the Republicans find something better to do with their time?

If it is your own child, it is not stupid.

Again, it was deliberate or negligent. Neither is acceptable.
As for the "outside" firm--let's remember they were paid for by FCPS --and FCPS is releasing few details. Reid says she cannot release ti because of "privacy." Nothing to keep them from redacting names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS's response makes it look like a hopeless bureaucratic mess. It can basically be summarized as:

1. NMSC notified FCPS about commended students on Sept. 15.
2. 15 FCPS high schools notified their commended students by Nov. 1, and 8 FCPS high schools notified their commended students after Nov. 1, with the latest occurring in mid January.
3. Although NMSC stated that students should be informed "as soon as possible," NMSC did not provide a specific deadline or a specific method of informing students. Obviously, a FCPS high school could not possibly figure out how to distribute good news to its students in less than 1.5 months.
4. FCPS is working on a "draft regulation" to make uniform process and deadline to distributing commended information. The entire process of informing students though seems to be that the principal just signs a certificate and gives it to the student.
5. FCPS is asking NMSC to directly email students to alleviate FCPS from the burden forwarding information and signing certificates.

It strikes me as weird in general that FCPS presents no reason why it takes 6 weeks (or more) to simply forward information and sign certificates. FCPS should want to celebrate the success of its students, but instead believes that the signing of a few certificates is some hopelessly burdensome task that it could not possibly undertake without district-wide policies.

Why should they be responsible for doing a private organization’s work at all?

Yes! I’m glad Reid wrote the NMSC and encouraged them to use electronic notification directly to students.

+1

Stupidest “issue” ever. Can’t the Republicans find something better to do with their time?

If it is your own child, it is not stupid.

Again, it was deliberate or negligent. Neither is acceptable.
As for the "outside" firm--let's remember they were paid for by FCPS --and FCPS is releasing few details. Reid says she cannot release ti because of "privacy." Nothing to keep them from redacting names.

If it was my child and I cared, I would have looked up the threshold for commended myself to see if they got it. I wouldn't have cared because commended is literally just a PSAT score. For schools that don't care about the SAT, I highly doubt PSAT is anything other than filler on an awards line for a mediocre applicant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS's response makes it look like a hopeless bureaucratic mess. It can basically be summarized as:

1. NMSC notified FCPS about commended students on Sept. 15.
2. 15 FCPS high schools notified their commended students by Nov. 1, and 8 FCPS high schools notified their commended students after Nov. 1, with the latest occurring in mid January.
3. Although NMSC stated that students should be informed "as soon as possible," NMSC did not provide a specific deadline or a specific method of informing students. Obviously, a FCPS high school could not possibly figure out how to distribute good news to its students in less than 1.5 months.
4. FCPS is working on a "draft regulation" to make uniform process and deadline to distributing commended information. The entire process of informing students though seems to be that the principal just signs a certificate and gives it to the student.
5. FCPS is asking NMSC to directly email students to alleviate FCPS from the burden forwarding information and signing certificates.

It strikes me as weird in general that FCPS presents no reason why it takes 6 weeks (or more) to simply forward information and sign certificates. FCPS should want to celebrate the success of its students, but instead believes that the signing of a few certificates is some hopelessly burdensome task that it could not possibly undertake without district-wide policies.

Why should they be responsible for doing a private organization’s work at all?

Yes! I’m glad Reid wrote the NMSC and encouraged them to use electronic notification directly to students.

+1

Stupidest “issue” ever. Can’t the Republicans find something better to do with their time?

If it is your own child, it is not stupid.

Again, it was deliberate or negligent. Neither is acceptable.
As for the "outside" firm--let's remember they were paid for by FCPS --and FCPS is releasing few details. Reid says she cannot release ti because of "privacy." Nothing to keep them from redacting names.

The delay only affected the few who applied ED, and of those, the few who would even put this on their application. And the school called all the admissions offices of the affected, informed them, thus giving a few students a chance to get an extra awards slot on their application.

Can you please point out real, negligible harm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will Miyares now pull his political “investigation” into this non issue or will we still be forced to waste resource’s responding to him?

The latter. Unless Miyares discovers who was being protected.

[Anonymous]

^Sorry--meant not negligible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will Miyares now pull his political “investigation” into this non issue or will we still be forced to waste resource’s responding to him?

The latter. Unless Miyares discovers who was being protected.

If he doesn’t drop it, this will be additional evidence of his abuse of power and I really hope this harassment is investigated by some sort of auditor general.