WaPo Columnist: Why Montgomery County should listen to its parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's MCPS's new process for families "to request alternative assignments if a text conflicts with sincerely held religious views."

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2025/08/refrigerator-curriculum/

This "refrigerator curriculum" does not accomplish what Taylor and MCPS claim its accomplishing.

1) How will CO ensure the curriculums they're sending out align with the curriculum the specific teacher in a specific school is doing? Teachers have a lot of autonomy to choose and build lesson plans based on a variety of texts they choose from

2) The descriptions of the curriculum are purposely and intentionally vague and innocuous sounding, which means parents still have to do the leg work of looking up the text themselves and seeing if it is or isn't objectionable to them. This will mean "watchdog" parents will still be on the hunt to blast out warnings about texts that MCPS hopes will fly under the radar, which just perpetuates the problem they currently have. They're hoping that they won't have many opt-outs if they make the texts sound innocent enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MCPS's new process for families "to request alternative assignments if a text conflicts with sincerely held religious views."

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2025/08/refrigerator-curriculum/

This "refrigerator curriculum" does not accomplish what Taylor and MCPS claim its accomplishing.

1) How will CO ensure the curriculums they're sending out align with the curriculum the specific teacher in a specific school is doing? Teachers have a lot of autonomy to choose and build lesson plans based on a variety of texts they choose from

2) The descriptions of the curriculum are purposely and intentionally vague and innocuous sounding, which means parents still have to do the leg work of looking up the text themselves and seeing if it is or isn't objectionable to them. This will mean "watchdog" parents will still be on the hunt to blast out warnings about texts that MCPS hopes will fly under the radar, which just perpetuates the problem they currently have. They're hoping that they won't have many opt-outs if they make the texts sound innocent enough.

Works for me! If the parents want to opt out, they should do their own leg work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MCPS's new process for families "to request alternative assignments if a text conflicts with sincerely held religious views."

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2025/08/refrigerator-curriculum/

This "refrigerator curriculum" does not accomplish what Taylor and MCPS claim its accomplishing.

1) How will CO ensure the curriculums they're sending out align with the curriculum the specific teacher in a specific school is doing? Teachers have a lot of autonomy to choose and build lesson plans based on a variety of texts they choose from

2) The descriptions of the curriculum are purposely and intentionally vague and innocuous sounding, which means parents still have to do the leg work of looking up the text themselves and seeing if it is or isn't objectionable to them. This will mean "watchdog" parents will still be on the hunt to blast out warnings about texts that MCPS hopes will fly under the radar, which just perpetuates the problem they currently have. They're hoping that they won't have many opt-outs if they make the texts sound innocent enough.

Works for me! If the parents want to opt out, they should do their own leg work.

+1 parents are being accommodated but teachers don't have time to spoon feed adults.

[Anonymous]

you religious nuts are the most entitled, spoiled, whiny babies I have witnessed in MCPS. which is saying a lot, given the magnet people.