MCPS regional program "survey" for grades 4-7

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This survey pissed me off as well. How does my 10 year old know what electives they might want in 4-8 years?!? I can tell you what she definitely wants:

Teachers that actually want to teach
Courses that match her level versus “honors for all”
Accountability for principals to ensure equity among all high schools

I have a HS kid having a terrible experience with their schooo based program due to the incompetence of the principal and MCPS enabling him to do whatever he wants. I will be angry if we spend $9.5 million more to get the same crappy experience after 2027. It’s like nobody at MCPS read OLO Report 2026-2!

Put that in your form submission

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people even get from this survey that not being in a program is also an option? It seems like most will not understand that and will overstate interest as a result.

For our schools either limited academics, it’s a challenge.

Wouldn't you rather have access to higher level academics than some specific program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love to know their plans when the survey is inevitably disproportionately completed by west county, white and Asian families.

Will they actually try to do outreach to the zip codes and clusters not represented? Or will they throw their hands up and claim that outreach is hard and they tried their best.

Perhaps they should have actually done a rigorous demand analysis/market analysis before they started this whole process.

If people keep hiding for years, maybe they don't want to be found.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people even get from this survey that not being in a program is also an option? It seems like most will not understand that and will overstate interest as a result.

For our schools either limited academics, it’s a challenge.

Wouldn't you rather have access to higher level academics than some specific program?

Of course, but neither will happen. There will not be enough staff or interest for the special programs so they will be in name only and we will still go without advanced classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to know their plans when the survey is inevitably disproportionately completed by west county, white and Asian families.

Will they actually try to do outreach to the zip codes and clusters not represented? Or will they throw their hands up and claim that outreach is hard and they tried their best.

Perhaps they should have actually done a rigorous demand analysis/market analysis before they started this whole process.

If people keep hiding for years, maybe they don't want to be found.

MCPS hasn't ever made an attempt to "find" them.

Community organizing and outreach to busy, non-English speaking communities is inconvenient and time consuming. MCPS is lazy.

And even though many local schools have robust ways they reach out to their communities, MCPS doesn't empower them to get information about central programs or initiatives out to people.

There are literally thousands of consultants who could do better outreach than MCPS but they don't prioritize hiring them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to know their plans when the survey is inevitably disproportionately completed by west county, white and Asian families.

Will they actually try to do outreach to the zip codes and clusters not represented? Or will they throw their hands up and claim that outreach is hard and they tried their best.

Perhaps they should have actually done a rigorous demand analysis/market analysis before they started this whole process.

It doesn’t impact those families as they often don’t have the transportation.

No families have it easy with transportation. Even wealthy families don’t want to be paying for daily metro, uber or leaving work at 2:30 to get their kid from a home high school not in walking distance or a regional high school 25 mins away twice a day, not to mention any additional trips back and forth for sports, activities, meetings, etc. It’s really not awesome to dangle all of these “opportunities” in front of kids and rely on great adult/parent sacrifices to actually make it work rather than just provide appropriate bus transportation.