2025 - MCPS's worst year yet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

He was supposed to have more surgeries. This was way more than bullying. This was an attack.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

DP

I dgaf about the magnet programs, but it seems almost certain they will cut resources for the existing magnets "for equity" (their excuse for everything regardless of whether or not it makes any sense).

Stop making up stuff and being selfish. Just cut them as they only serve a few hundred kids and that money is better spread to give more students advanced classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

DP

I dgaf about the magnet programs, but it seems almost certain they will cut resources for the existing magnets "for equity" (their excuse for everything regardless of whether or not it makes any sense).

Stop making up stuff and being selfish. Just cut them as they only serve a few hundred kids and that money is better spread to give more students advanced classes.

Let’s just cut football too since it also only serves a few hundred kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

DP

I dgaf about the magnet programs, but it seems almost certain they will cut resources for the existing magnets "for equity" (their excuse for everything regardless of whether or not it makes any sense).

Stop making up stuff and being selfish. Just cut them as they only serve a few hundred kids and that money is better spread to give more students advanced classes.

Let’s just cut football too since it also only serves a few hundred kids.

Sounds good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget the announcement to close both highly respected magnet programs (Blair Science and Math and RMIB).

Those programs aren’t closing. They’re being regionalized. I know for magnet supporters like yourself that is tantamount to closure since they will no longer draw a pool of students across the county, but the programs are not technically closing.

DP

I dgaf about the magnet programs, but it seems almost certain they will cut resources for the existing magnets "for equity" (their excuse for everything regardless of whether or not it makes any sense).

Stop making up stuff and being selfish. Just cut them as they only serve a few hundred kids and that money is better spread to give more students advanced classes.

This attitude is what kills MCPS/MoCo over time. See where we are today...

[Anonymous]

I also love counting things from previous years as "this year" and not even trying to make a comparison to previous years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just stop.
Homeschool or leave the rest of us with brains know our children get a great education at MCPS.

Move to a red state like Alabama or MO or omg Oklahoma just loves the dummies ...you will fit right in.

Or Howard County, MD, or Fairfax County, VA...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

He was supposed to have more surgeries. This was way more than bullying. This was an attack.

It was backlash from bullying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

He was supposed to have more surgeries. This was way more than bullying. This was an attack.

It was backlash from bullying.

Just stop it. The boy could have died. That is not backlash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

He was supposed to have more surgeries. This was way more than bullying. This was an attack.

It was backlash from bullying.

Just stop it. The boy could have died. That is not backlash.

You don’t know what happened leading up to this incident. It’s horrible and unacceptable what happened to this particular student but this highlights another huge issue with MCPS - no real consequences for bullying or violent behavior.

[Anonymous]

2025 was still much better than 2020. Maybe even better than 2021. Smith really did a number on MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

He was supposed to have more surgeries. This was way more than bullying. This was an attack.

It was backlash from bullying.

Did you say that about Columbine, too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also love counting things from previous years as "this year" and not even trying to make a comparison to previous years.

+1. This whole thread is pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

He was supposed to have more surgeries. This was way more than bullying. This was an attack.

It was backlash from bullying.

Just stop it. The boy could have died. That is not backlash.

You don’t know what happened leading up to this incident. It’s horrible and unacceptable what happened to this particular student but this highlights another huge issue with MCPS - no real consequences for bullying or violent behavior.

The boy accidentally hit the girl with ball while he was playing a game. There was no information anywhere that this was any kind of backlash from bullying. where are you getting this his from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw on Facebook that the poor boy in the Odessa Shannon attack is back in surgery today.

He was supposed to have more surgeries. This was way more than bullying. This was an attack.

It was backlash from bullying.

Backlash, that was a violent attack. If that girl was in school with mine, I’d pull them.