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Anonymous
She kept our kids and teachers aafe and as every studied show Southern where schools remained open had similar learning loss, but higher death rates. She's a freaking hero!. |
Anonymous
There's no reasoning with the anti-masker MAGA crowd, they're just angry they had to spend time with their kids because it's inconvenient to their lifestyle. |
Anonymous
| Wolff & co haven't performed their primary responsibility (oversight of MCPS/superintendent) to the benefit of MoCo families in a meaningfully detailed way outside of one issue, and that issue, while supported by a majority, is divisive, moreso by the particular paradigms the BOE has encouraged to address it (where less inequitable approaches, ironically, would be more effective). Politicians... |
Anonymous
Disagree, sure, I read the nutty conspiracy posts about things like bocce here or minor programs some parents don't like, but that's inevitable with any democracy. You can't please everyone... Overall my kids are getting a great education. |
Anonymous
Like the multi-million dollar embezzlement by the transportation director. Nutty stuff. No one cares if MCPS staff embezzle millions for decades. No school needs the money and we have plenty of bus drivers. Wolff hasn't said a word about that embezzlement and she won't. She knows she can cover it up because MCPS parents are idiots. |
Anonymous
Could be good for your family. Definitely could be much better and much better run. Bocce? Red herring. How about deep dives on curriculum? Ensuring programs are equally available? Equally implemented? Enough to keep us out of great-if-you-get-it-but-only-for-a-few lotteries? Facilities that have working & effective HVAC, safe water and no toxin problems? Working toilets?!? Non-forever portable solutions? Hard conversations with the County Council that result in capital action before the population problems occur? Bowing neither to privilege nor to short-sighted, inefficient political priorities (more effectively addressed otherwise, in any case) to make regular, comprehensive boundary/facility use decisions? So many things have been left unaddressed or under-addressed for two decades or more. The school system is a hierarchical autocracy with the BOE as the only proper check to ensure it acts in the best interests of the population. I really haven't seen much of that from them. |
Anonymous
No more like the person who is angry they bought sports equipment for disabled kids or goes on about some conspiracy about the kid's museum ad infinitum, even though Joffus made his conflict clear up front and recused himself from that decision. |
Anonymous
What grades are your children in? When my DC ('22) started in MCPS in 2009, I was thrilled. Everything was lovely. It stayed that way for several years. "MCPS is so great!" When DC was in HS (pre-pandemic), I was like "Wow, this is such a disappointment." Removing on-level English so everyone was in "honors" was a big problem. Then the pandemic happened. Learning stopped for my DC in March 2020 and I'm not even sure it ever really picked up in the 2021-2022 school year. I hope your children continue to receive a great education. Many kids don't. |
Anonymous
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Maybe Wolffe and McKnight can beg the Coast Guard to chopper kids to school this year?
You can't seriously believe Wolffe and McKnight are competent administrators after last year's fiascos involving budget, transportation? Get real. |
Anonymous
And exactly who goes to Kid Museum? Please post the list, because I'm sure of who hasn't gone and I want to see what millions of taxpayer dollars bought. There are scattered claims by one or two (anonymous) posters, but all that means is that a lot of money may have been spent on a handful of kids? Show me the proof. |
Anonymous
"There were 697 “serious incidents” at county public schools—calls for service including assaults, weapons offenses and sex offenses—during the 2021-2022 academic year, according to data from the Montgomery County Police Department." https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/08/29/how-safe-are-montgomery-county-schools/ Blair Stabbing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HETrUmNzaYo Magruder shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klyhyOzhOiA |
Anonymous
Oh I know I remember all those kids running around with knives in the parking. Lots of Churchill and Whitman last fall. It seemed like the halls of the W's were full of ax murderers! |
Anonymous
Don't forget Blair! |
Anonymous
Yes, some people at Churchill were threatened by a knife-wielding Whitman student. https://mocoshow.com/blog/student-assaulted-at-winston-churchill-high-school-by-male-student-from-walt-whitman-high-school/ https://bethesdamagazine.com/2021/10/13/student-at-churchill-high-brought-knife-to-school-police-say/ |
Anonymous
I think you meant Blair and Magruder? Whitman - 8 fighting, 1 dangerous substance, 1 attack, 1 threat (no weapons) Churchill - 8 fighting, 2 threat, 4 dangerous substances, 2 disrespect, 2 attack, 1 weapons Blair - 1 arson, 7 attack, 14 dangerous substances, 20 disrespect, 5 fighting, 12 threat, 5 weapons Magruder - 11 attack, 10 dangerous substances, 4 disrespect, 17 fighting, 3 threat, 3 weapons https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SafetyGlance/currentyear/SafetyGlance2020.pdf Or you may have meant when the "Whitman Students" murdered someone? https://theblackandwhite.net/71161/news/three-whitman-students-charged-with-murder-after-bethesda-killing/ Calling kids from "Greentree Group Home" for troubled youths who are zoned to Whitman as "typical Whitman students" is like saying SMACS are typical Blair students. Both are convenient truths. |