8/20 2024 BOE meeting

[Anonymous]

priorities:
school safety

continuous improvement of academic performance

team mcps: recruiting

[Anonymous]

cultivating anti racist leaders
what is the plan for that??

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Wolff doesnt want a computer course as a graduation requirement.

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Mr Marcus Jones is there. he was former chief of MoCo Police

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Anonymous wrote:Wolff doesnt want a computer course as a graduation requirement.

Why? did she say?

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Anonymous wrote:Probably will hear from many many heartbroken and disappointed mva families.

MVA will be at each and every BOE meeting until the MVA is restored. But, otherwise nothing will come of the BOE meeting. The BOE is a joke.

I don't know why the BOE is still allowing MVA testimonies when they clearly have the ability to screen and filter out testimonies based on topics that aren't on the BOE's agenda for that meeting.

Why screen it? MVA famlies have a right to speak and will continue.

They've already spoken. Now they're just wasting everyone's time.

They are working on funding for next school year. They can easily reopen it. Its not a waste of time if its important to them. Why are you so hateful and bitter to the MVA? What experience do you have with it?

They're not. The BoE and council had opportunities to fund it, and they chose not to. The budget situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. If Courtney and Sterling were serious about finding a long-term solution to virtual school, they'd be lobbying the state to create a program, rather than continuing to whine to the people that already told them no.

Even if the state created a program, MCPS would have to pay for it. Are you really that clueless? All the state can do is approve a private program, which will cost more than the MVA. Why the obsession with the state doing it? States only approve programs, they do not run programs.

But two BOE members are virtual because they want that option.

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Anonymous wrote:Mr Marcus Jones is there. he was former chief of MoCo Police

he wants adult hall monitors? oh boy.

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presented by Moran:
serious incidents: 736 grand total school year 2023-2034

knives other weapons 221 incidents
false alarm /bob threat 84 incidents
fighting attack on others 130
drugs controlled substances 200
trespassing 101

[Anonymous]

Jones says bob threats have come from outside the area, state and in some cases out of the country.
Jones and team will look at best strategies to assess threats working with Principals others. Should school be evacuated or no need to etc..

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Anonymous wrote:Wolff doesnt want a computer course as a graduation requirement.

Why? did she say?

It was an odd aside about how the BOE had tech issues but the student board member fixed it. I believe she thinks kids just KNOW how to tech so they don't need a class to teach them about computers because they are learning it outside of school.

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Wolff says the numbers given especially the fighting numbers seem low.

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Wolff asks if there is a breakdown of the data by school and demographics to see if there is a pattern, repeated offenders. Dana Edwards Chief of District Operations responds

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Anonymous wrote:Wolff asks if there is a breakdown of the data by school and demographics to see if there is a pattern, repeated offenders. Dana Edwards Chief of District Operations responds

Is Rivera oven accusing Marcus jones of lying about numbers? I could be misinterpreting it.

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Anonymous wrote:Wolff asks if there is a breakdown of the data by school and demographics to see if there is a pattern, repeated offenders. Dana Edwards Chief of District Operations responds

Is Rivera oven accusing Marcus jones of lying about numbers? I could be misinterpreting it.

Editing that I think she’s talking about principals.

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Smondrowski asks if families can know of the consequences of disciplinary action that a student who makes threats gets when if they are caught/found. She may have forgotten there is FERPA.