Board of Education Board Business Meeting Sept 25 Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

You lost all credibility with this statement.

Well, we have different experiences then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

Hello, Mrs. Porter. Instead of defending palely on this anonymized forum, would you please respond my email to BOE and CO? Who wants to stand out and shoulder the accountability of all consequences?

Another poster who needs to work in their critical thinking skills. I am not Porter, whoever that is. I just see when someone has made an invalid argument.

OK, I choose to believe in you. Then could you read my post above about transfer experience? There are valid reasons to believe that this would be a drastic issues when the change drops in in the first year. The evidences had been given in yesterday's testimony. We saw Director of school bus transportation from SCPS took the responsibility and resigned. MCPS so far has no clear bus route planning nor cost attached given in any open platform. When? After the implementation begins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

You lost all credibility with this statement.

Well, we have different experiences then.

The facts have different experiences with your alternate reality:

https://wjla.com/features/i-team/montgomery-county-public-schools-mcps-new-report-ceso-electric-school-bus-fleet-investigation-office-of-the-inspector-general-spending-contract-het

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1290417.page

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2021/08/30/mcps-parents-frustrated-by-school-bus-delays-crowding-on-first-day/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

By the way, you've never rode the magnet bus a single time or read the statistics of bus time, do you? TPMS and Eastern students need to transfer at Blair every morning and afternoon, and the total time doubles because of the waiting of transfer. It only takes Blair kids one-way about 20 - 25 mins from/to some popular stops in the western county, but 50 mins from/to TPMS for the same station.

My kids ride magnet buses every day and I like our bus system. You cannot assume the commute will be longer just because someone has to transfer.

Have your kids taken Eastern and TPMS bus on a regular basis? This is the most close scenario to the 1-stop transfer that is going to happen to EVERY special program. As I mentioned above, the transfer takes long, varying and uncertain time. As long as one bus from home to local HS runs into issue, everyone on the second bus needs to wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

Hello, Mrs. Porter. Instead of defending palely on this anonymized forum, would you please respond my email to BOE and CO? Who wants to stand out and shoulder the accountability of all consequences?

Another poster who needs to work in their critical thinking skills. I am not Porter, whoever that is. I just see when someone has made an invalid argument.

How is it possible for anyone to take accountability of consequences (ie, something that has not happened yet)? I don’t understand what you are saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

By the way, you've never rode the magnet bus a single time or read the statistics of bus time, do you? TPMS and Eastern students need to transfer at Blair every morning and afternoon, and the total time doubles because of the waiting of transfer. It only takes Blair kids one-way about 20 - 25 mins from/to some popular stops in the western county, but 50 mins from/to TPMS for the same station.

My kids ride magnet buses every day and I like our bus system. You cannot assume the commute will be longer just because someone has to transfer.

Have your kids taken Eastern and TPMS bus on a regular basis? This is the most close scenario to the 1-stop transfer that is going to happen to EVERY special program. As I mentioned above, the transfer takes long, varying and uncertain time. As long as one bus from home to local HS runs into issue, everyone on the second bus needs to wait.

You’re assuming that that is going to be a typical scenario under the regional model, and you cannot make that assumption without evidence. Did MCPS publish the new regional bus routes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

You lost all credibility with this statement.

Well, we have different experiences then.

The facts have different experiences with your alternate reality:

https://wjla.com/features/i-team/montgomery-county-public-schools-mcps-new-report-ceso-electric-school-bus-fleet-investigation-office-of-the-inspector-general-spending-contract-het

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1290417.page

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2021/08/30/mcps-parents-frustrated-by-school-bus-delays-crowding-on-first-day/

Just because some are frustrated by the bus system does not mean the vast majority of us feel the same way.

[Anonymous]

Off topic question. When MCPS will present new set of options for boudaries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So do folks think Taylor's bit between 1:46:30-1:47:30 about the program analysis and how they seek and value community feedback was him intentionally lying and spinning to try to convince the Board that they're doing something they're not? Or has his staff convinced him they're doing it and he believes it?

Either way it pisses me off that after the Poolesville student and others flagged the glaring issues with MCPS moving forward a pre-planned agenda and making almost no efforts to seriously solicit and consider feedback, Taylor could just say "yes we are" and the Board probably believes him.

Totally lying, and to a student which makes it even worse. You can ask high school principals. MCPS only talked to them in the past couple of weeks. The initial proposal was presented over the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Off topic question. When MCPS will present new set of options for boudaries?

Starting October 6th for Woodward and 13th for Crown.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2025/09/boundary-study-october-meetings/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.

We don't have enough busses and drivers to cover more routes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rita Montoya is absent again for the Public Comments portion of the meeting. She's absent from way too many board meetings for my liking.

Montoya is out of her depth even when she is there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

I appreciate Li's testimony. The fact that Stafford County, with its four high schools, was unable to implement bussing for its new programs, speaks volumes. Taylor pushed a much smaller, yet similar, program system through in Virginia and then got out of town before it could take effect.

I wish we had had more time to interview more candidates for that job. I don't think that Taylor will turn out to be a good fit.

[Anonymous]

Rita Montoya work from home Board time does not match the MCPS work from home inequitable policies by department. Some departments get more time than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rita Montoya work from home Board time does not match the MCPS work from home inequitable policies by department. Some departments get more time than others.

If Rita has limitations that keep her from being present at BOE meetings, she should not have run for the BOE. It's a job that requires members to be present for the community.