Budget Anmendments proposed for the BOE CIP vote

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Anonymous wrote:Montoya has her flaws but it takes guts to challenge MCPS this way and I think everyone who cares about BOE independence (regardless of your opinion on this specific change) should find ways to thank and celebrate her for this (at minimum send her an email with "Thank you for the amendments" or "Thank you for your independence" or something like that in the subject line.)

Um, no. She proposed keeping renovations out of a school with no walls where the kids really can”t learn. She does not have kids’ best interest in mind. She is all about Rita.

Found another central office account. Millions to benefit 300 kids in a school with declining enrollment or millions that can be used to benefit thousands of students through repairs. Elementary schools are subject to a study to assess capacity in the near future. This was clearly just a play by Yang to shore up her county council run and pander to constituencies that can get her elected.

Millions for minor improvements for thousands of students, while hundreds of students can't even hear their own teacher over the din from the other classes in the same room.

Hardly. hVAC systems are required in schools that would service thousands. hVAC is not a minor repair; don’t use your house’s HVAC system as a proxy for a school system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montoya has her flaws but it takes guts to challenge MCPS this way and I think everyone who cares about BOE independence (regardless of your opinion on this specific change) should find ways to thank and celebrate her for this (at minimum send her an email with "Thank you for the amendments" or "Thank you for your independence" or something like that in the subject line.)

Um, no. She proposed keeping renovations out of a school with no walls where the kids really can”t learn. She does not have kids’ best interest in mind. She is all about Rita.

Found another central office account. Millions to benefit 300 kids in a school with declining enrollment or millions that can be used to benefit thousands of students through repairs. Elementary schools are subject to a study to assess capacity in the near future. This was clearly just a play by Yang to shore up her county council run and pander to constituencies that can get her elected.

Millions for minor improvements for thousands of students, while hundreds of students can't even hear their own teacher over the din from the other classes in the same room.

I think mold, lack of heat, ac, ceilings falling down, and other things should come first. Get parent donations and fix it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montoya has her flaws but it takes guts to challenge MCPS this way and I think everyone who cares about BOE independence (regardless of your opinion on this specific change) should find ways to thank and celebrate her for this (at minimum send her an email with "Thank you for the amendments" or "Thank you for your independence" or something like that in the subject line.)

Um, no. She proposed keeping renovations out of a school with no walls where the kids really can”t learn. She does not have kids’ best interest in mind. She is all about Rita.

They can’t learn? Then why are they the top elementary school?

Not because of the school. Watch the video that kids from the school put together linked below. I feel especially bad for any students with ADHD or special needs.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b4AjDSHUp65nfZ2RzzSev4TL9LtIiFn3/view

This just reinforces the need for this school to be shut down and converted into a holding school.

No, you're confusing two things. This video is about Cold Spring and one of her amendments was to cancel the renovations of Cold Spring and Highland View and move that money to HVAC replacements. The schools being "shut down" and converted to are Sligo Creek Elementary and SSIMS, which occupy the same building/campus (well, Sligo Creek will be rebuilt, allegedly, somewhere else).

I'm not confusing anything. I know that Cold Spring is currently is the SIP to be rebuilt. Part of Rita's point is that we shouldn't be building new elementary schools when a boundary study is needed, with declining enrollment and with the likelihood of many elementary schools needing to be shut down. It seems like Cold Spring could be one of the schools could end up being closed down given all of those factors.