KID Museum moving to Bethesda Metro?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid goes to a low income school that has chiefly URM kids. Their STEM club is doing a series of half-day field trips to the KID Museum. I’m not sure what the school is paying but there’s no cost to the families.

Club? Not curriculum. Not for “other” kids.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid goes to a low income school that has chiefly URM kids. Their STEM club is doing a series of half-day field trips to the KID Museum. I’m not sure what the school is paying but there’s no cost to the families.

Club? Not curriculum. Not for “other” kids.

Correct. I’m not sure if other kids outside the club go or not, but the club is pretty big and has mixed demographics and is pretty far from Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

Part of the value is accessibility. They should offer free programs to mcps.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid goes to a low income school that has chiefly URM kids. Their STEM club is doing a series of half-day field trips to the KID Museum. I’m not sure what the school is paying but there’s no cost to the families.

Club? Not curriculum. Not for “other” kids.

Someone is paying.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

The only thing my kids love more than the kids museum is bocce. We're so fortunate to have these wonderful resources.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

The only thing my kids love more than the kids museum is bocce. We're so fortunate to have these wonderful resources.

My kids also learned how to play bocce in PE. They loved it. I hope the school starts a bocce team!

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

Of course. We understand. You value STEM enrichment for the wealthy kids at schools who can afford the prices at the Kid Museum and have parents who are willing to organize these trips.

You are not concerned about the rest of our kids at all.

If you truly valued education, you would advocate that MCPS uses the $2.5 million to go towards smaller class sizes or directly towards improving elementary science education in our school district.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

Of course. We understand. You value STEM enrichment for the wealthy kids at schools who can afford the prices at the Kid Museum and have parents who are willing to organize these trips.

You are not concerned about the rest of our kids at all.

If you truly valued education, you would advocate that MCPS uses the $2.5 million to go towards smaller class sizes or directly towards improving elementary science education in our school district.

I prefer they spend on things like the KIDS museum instead of forcing it down the throats of so many who could care less. This way people who are genuinely interested can get the most out of it and those who prefer to spend their time on things like travel soccer or whatever can pursue that.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

Of course. We understand. You value STEM enrichment for the wealthy kids at schools who can afford the prices at the Kid Museum and have parents who are willing to organize these trips.

You are not concerned about the rest of our kids at all.

If you truly valued education, you would advocate that MCPS uses the $2.5 million to go towards smaller class sizes or directly towards improving elementary science education in our school district.

I prefer they spend on things like the KIDS museum instead of forcing it down the throats of so many who could care less. This way people who are genuinely interested can get the most out of it and those who prefer to spend their time on things like travel soccer or whatever can pursue that.

Why do you assume that students at the lower income school ‘could care less’ and would prefer to spend their time on ‘soccer’?

[Anonymous]

MCPS teacher here. I used to be an electives teacher at a middle school. My recollection is that the money is coming from a grant, not MCPS directly. There is not enough money for all middle schools to come, so the grant requires underrepresented groups. They have a close collaboration with Parkland Middle and Shady grove middle. Other schools also invited, but as other have noted the costs are pretty high to bring a bus full of kids. Like a few thousand dollars that would have to come out of an individual school or PTA budget. Not sure if the the grant requirements have changed in the last few years.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

The only thing my kids love more than the kids museum is bocce. We're so fortunate to have these wonderful resources.

My kids also learned how to play bocce in PE. They loved it. I hope the school starts a bocce team!

I think we should all be very proud that MCPS spend $780,000.00 dollars of Federal covid funding on bocce ball. It really shows that they wisely invest in teaching children how to roll a ball on a lawn, versus educating children or adding special needs slots for kids currently not in the program! It's so wonderful! Please re-elect Wolff so she can encourage McKnight to fund more activities like this! Maybe we can remove magnet programs and AP testing to fund pool tables and bowling? I'm so happy over the wonderful use of these resources!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

Of course. We understand. You value STEM enrichment for the wealthy kids at schools who can afford the prices at the Kid Museum and have parents who are willing to organize these trips.

You are not concerned about the rest of our kids at all.

If you truly valued education, you would advocate that MCPS uses the $2.5 million to go towards smaller class sizes or directly towards improving elementary science education in our school district.

I prefer they spend on things like the KIDS museum instead of forcing it down the throats of so many who could care less. This way people who are genuinely interested can get the most out of it and those who prefer to spend their time on things like travel soccer or whatever can pursue that.

Sure, if I was a corrupt, I'd prefer funding to be spent on Kids Museum as well.

On the other hand, if I was an honest board member, I might use the same amount of funding (11K for every school in MCPS) to fund an in-house STEM or after-school program?

How many actual MCPS kids (a number count) benefited from Kids Museum this year under this program? Bet you can't name the exact number, can you? (Hint - I think MCPS is hiding it because it's so embarrassingly low?)

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

The only thing my kids love more than the kids museum is bocce. We're so fortunate to have these wonderful resources.

My kids also learned how to play bocce in PE. They loved it. I hope the school starts a bocce team!

I think we should all be very proud that MCPS spend $780,000.00 dollars of Federal covid funding on bocce ball. It really shows that they wisely invest in teaching children how to roll a ball on a lawn, versus educating children or adding special needs slots for kids currently not in the program! It's so wonderful! Please re-elect Wolff so she can encourage McKnight to fund more activities like this! Maybe we can remove magnet programs and AP testing to fund pool tables and bowling? I'm so happy over the wonderful use of these resources!

You don't think special needs children should have a chance at being a member of a team?

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Anonymous wrote:We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications. We need an inspector general now!

Absolutely. MCPS desperately needs more oversight. It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless.

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.

By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case.

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system? Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.

The only thing my kids love more than the kids museum is bocce. We're so fortunate to have these wonderful resources.

My kids also learned how to play bocce in PE. They loved it. I hope the school starts a bocce team!

I think we should all be very proud that MCPS spend $780,000.00 dollars of Federal covid funding on bocce ball. It really shows that they wisely invest in teaching children how to roll a ball on a lawn, versus educating children or adding special needs slots for kids currently not in the program! It's so wonderful! Please re-elect Wolff so she can encourage McKnight to fund more activities like this! Maybe we can remove magnet programs and AP testing to fund pool tables and bowling? I'm so happy over the wonderful use of these resources!

You don't think special needs children should have a chance at being a member of a team?

The question is not whether special needs can play bocce ball. The questions are why it must be bocce ball, why it cost $780,000.00 when a bocce ball set costs $40, why was it funded using Federal ESSER covid funding, why was it labeled for special needs only, and why did MCPS scatter the bocce ball costs in multiple places in their grant application to make the numbers look lower?

I recall Al Capone ran a soup kitchen?