Rally outside Rockville HS today?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

They seem related. If you don't think the school is safe, VA is a better alternative.

Then the answer is to fix the schools, not let a select few escape them.

+100 This is the same reason I don't believe in private school vouchers. If there are problems in our public schools, then we need to work together to fix them, including by using our advocacy time on those issues rather than quixotic quests to reinstate a closed program.

The answer is emphatically NOT to spend a bunch of money advantaging the small sub-section of kids who can afford to have one parent home full-time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

Both are big issues, MVA is far cheaper to fund and deal with. Both need to be addressed asap.

we lived without MVA prior to covid; we can do so again now after 4 years of covid.

We? Who are you? A lot of MVA students weren’t IN schools prior to COVID. You want to go back to denying those students an education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

They seem related. If you don't think the school is safe, VA is a better alternative.

Then the answer is to fix the schools, not let a select few escape them.

+100 This is the same reason I don't believe in private school vouchers. If there are problems in our public schools, then we need to work together to fix them, including by using our advocacy time on those issues rather than quixotic quests to reinstate a closed program.

The answer is emphatically NOT to spend a bunch of money advantaging the small sub-section of kids who can afford to have one parent home full-time.

That wasn’t MVA families. Guess you did not attend the meeting yesterday. You should have brought your hate and attended. A nice Hate has a Home t-shirt would have looked good on you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't the new Super have better things to do than to explain to the pro-MVA group for the 100th time that the program has been terminated, was a failure, and is not coming back next year?

It wasn’t a failure. Keep up the bullying. It keeps you busy and shows the public why MCPS is in trouble.

The statement makes no sense. Because it would only show the public that the public itself is the problem.

You got it. You are the only problem. MVA was successful.

Successful in driving more than 66% of its students to leave the program in the span of 2 years...successful in having graduation rates significantly lower than in-person schools...successful in having chronic absenteeism rates significantly higher than in-person schools...successful in having standardized tests scores measuring student achievement of grade-level expectations that were significantly lower than in-person schools, especially among the poorest and youngest students.

Such lies, but you arr frtting paid.

The MVA has a different population than an average school. What is important is what MVA did for its population and that data is spectacular.

Good to know we can just lower the bar for the program however low we need to in order to justify its existence because it has a different population than an average school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

Both are big issues, MVA is far cheaper to fund and deal with. Both need to be addressed asap.

we lived without MVA prior to covid; we can do so again now after 4 years of covid.

We? Who are you? A lot of MVA students weren’t IN schools prior to COVID. You want to go back to denying those students an education.

if they were not in school, then I assume they were homeschooled. They can go back to that.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. -- Spock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

They seem related. If you don't think the school is safe, VA is a better alternative.

Then the answer is to fix the schools, not let a select few escape them.

+100 This is the same reason I don't believe in private school vouchers. If there are problems in our public schools, then we need to work together to fix them, including by using our advocacy time on those issues rather than quixotic quests to reinstate a closed program.

The answer is emphatically NOT to spend a bunch of money advantaging the small sub-section of kids who can afford to have one parent home full-time.

That wasn’t MVA families. Guess you did not attend the meeting yesterday. You should have brought your hate and attended. A nice Hate has a Home t-shirt would have looked good on you.

Can you point out what is particularly hateful about promoting a collectivist rather than individualist approach to education?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

They seem related. If you don't think the school is safe, VA is a better alternative.

Then the answer is to fix the schools, not let a select few escape them.

+100 This is the same reason I don't believe in private school vouchers. If there are problems in our public schools, then we need to work together to fix them, including by using our advocacy time on those issues rather than quixotic quests to reinstate a closed program.

The answer is emphatically NOT to spend a bunch of money advantaging the small sub-section of kids who can afford to have one parent home full-time.

You mean less money. Virtual is less money than in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't the new Super have better things to do than to explain to the pro-MVA group for the 100th time that the program has been terminated, was a failure, and is not coming back next year?

It wasn’t a failure. Keep up the bullying. It keeps you busy and shows the public why MCPS is in trouble.

The statement makes no sense. Because it would only show the public that the public itself is the problem.

You got it. You are the only problem. MVA was successful.

Successful in driving more than 66% of its students to leave the program in the span of 2 years...successful in having graduation rates significantly lower than in-person schools...successful in having chronic absenteeism rates significantly higher than in-person schools...successful in having standardized tests scores measuring student achievement of grade-level expectations that were significantly lower than in-person schools, especially among the poorest and youngest students.

None of those things are why it was closed. And that from Taylor last night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

Both are big issues, MVA is far cheaper to fund and deal with. Both need to be addressed asap.

we lived without MVA prior to covid; we can do so again now after 4 years of covid.

We? Who are you? A lot of MVA students weren’t IN schools prior to COVID. You want to go back to denying those students an education.

if they were not in school, then I assume they were homeschooled. They can go back to that.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. -- Spock.

Oh so do you think Special Education programs and learning centers should be shut down too? You know, since the needs of the few aren't nearly as important as the needs of everyone else.

You're a clown.

[Anonymous]

Mcps cant undo the massive amounts of funds paid for the rapes, sexual harrassments, the principal coverups, the teacher retaliations etc. Now ypu have to deal with having huge budget shortfalls and having the reputation of being a violent corrupt district. It was juatly earned by mismanagement and incompetence. Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

Both are big issues, MVA is far cheaper to fund and deal with. Both need to be addressed asap.

we lived without MVA prior to covid; we can do so again now after 4 years of covid.

We? Who are you? A lot of MVA students weren’t IN schools prior to COVID. You want to go back to denying those students an education.

Not at all. They're free to attend public like everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

They seem related. If you don't think the school is safe, VA is a better alternative.

Then the answer is to fix the schools, not let a select few escape them.

+100 This is the same reason I don't believe in private school vouchers. If there are problems in our public schools, then we need to work together to fix them, including by using our advocacy time on those issues rather than quixotic quests to reinstate a closed program.

The answer is emphatically NOT to spend a bunch of money advantaging the small sub-section of kids who can afford to have one parent home full-time.

You mean less money. Virtual is less money than in school.

It's not, due to the parallel administrative structure. This has been explained again and again, but let's do it one more time with simple math.

Let's imagine a school district with 1000 kids. Of those, 990 learn in-school and 10 learn virtually.

Those 990 in-school kids are split among 10 schools, each of which have 99 kids. Those schools have buildings, administrators, curricular advisors, etc. Those costs are fixed.

The 10 kids are learning at home. There are no building costs, but there are administrators, curricular advisors, etc.

If you absorb the 10 kids back into the in-school population, now each in-person school has 100 kids but the same building, the same administrators, the same curricular advisors.

BUT, in that scenario you are able to use the infrastructure costs from the kids who used to be at-home to plug holes in the staffing of the in-person schools. This results in cost savings overall for the school district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't the new Super have better things to do than to explain to the pro-MVA group for the 100th time that the program has been terminated, was a failure, and is not coming back next year?

It wasn’t a failure. Keep up the bullying. It keeps you busy and shows the public why MCPS is in trouble.

The statement makes no sense. Because it would only show the public that the public itself is the problem.

You got it. You are the only problem. MVA was successful.

Successful in driving more than 66% of its students to leave the program in the span of 2 years...successful in having graduation rates significantly lower than in-person schools...successful in having chronic absenteeism rates significantly higher than in-person schools...successful in having standardized tests scores measuring student achievement of grade-level expectations that were significantly lower than in-person schools, especially among the poorest and youngest students.

None of those things are why it was closed. And that from Taylor last night.

So what was it then, according to him?

Let me guess from the new guy - it was the old admin's fault and there's no good reason those awful people made the decision. It's just too bad that it's too late for him to do anything about it. He's really sorry. He'll look into though, but he was dealt a bad hand when he came in....About right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, MVA families are having a rally. His intent is to listen and ignore what is being said as its clear he doesn't care any more than the BOE. In the few weeks he's been onboard he's made no changes to MVA, school safety, behavior, etc.

1) It's summer.
2) He's been on the job for 2 weeks, one of which was a holiday week, and 2 business days, so 11 business days total.
3) He's visited a bunch of schools and facilities.
4) Two weeks into his appointment, he is hosting a meeting with a group of folks who are legitimately angry at actions of his predecessor.

Y'all are insane for thinking he's supposed to have accomplished anything major yet.

Basically all he's done is PR. It may be summer but some MVA kids still don't have placements, nor do the staff.

It's been two weeks, you don't think he has a million tasks already?

He couldn't have saved MVA even if he wanted to. MVA administrators were reassigned weeks ago, the MVA is not coming back. The deadline for teachers to move to other schools has passed. It would create too much movement.

ALL students have placements...at their home schools.

If the kids were comfortable going to their homeschool they wouldn’t be in MVA. MCPS promised prioritized COSAs to MVA families to help find a school devoid of bullies, risqué fashion or whatever else is keeping the MVA families away from their home schools.

I’m sorry if if risqué fashion is a reason why people e roll in MVA they should shut it down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School safety is a bigger issue than VA.

They seem related. If you don't think the school is safe, VA is a better alternative.

Then the answer is to fix the schools, not let a select few escape them.

+100 This is the same reason I don't believe in private school vouchers. If there are problems in our public schools, then we need to work together to fix them, including by using our advocacy time on those issues rather than quixotic quests to reinstate a closed program.

The answer is emphatically NOT to spend a bunch of money advantaging the small sub-section of kids who can afford to have one parent home full-time.

Its not as simple as you are making it sound. Some of these kids have significant needs and MCPS is saving a fortune by the MVA. MCPS will not fix the problems and no matter how hard they try they cannot fix bullying and other things. That's partly parenting. The cost to MCPS is minimal.