Going The Distance

[Anonymous]

Teachers go the distance
We grade for speed
WE ARE ALL ALONE IN A TIME oF NEED
( IE VIOLENCE CHAOS CORRUPTION AND RETALIATION)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cake was huge in the 90s. I'm sure lots of parents remember it

I love that song.

I think it's super corny, and it was his attempt to connect with students. A bit lame, but he's trying something.

My kids also laugh at me when I attempt to act younger. It's just being funny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would have preferred "MSDE Wrote a Blank Check"

Here you go:

[Verse 1]
MSDE wrote a blank check,
MCPS cashed it, no regret.
Bathrooms locked — "safety," they claim,
While kids get jumped and no one takes blame.

No textbooks, no math facts, no plan,
Can’t spell “future” — but they say, “Yes we can.”
Swastikas on bathroom stalls,
Slurs in the hall — no one calls.

[Chorus]
🎶 Blank check, big lie,
While classrooms rot and students cry.
No spelling, no vocab, no how-to-write,
But there’s a new app dropping every night.
Blank check, lost trust,
School board spin while dreams turn to dust.
You funded chaos, not success —
MSDE wrote a blank check. 🎶

[Verse 2]
Violence rising, cameras blind,
Teachers leave, can't unwind.
“Restorative” means reset and repeat,
While the bullies run free down every street.

No study skills, no quiet space,
Just Chromebooks glitchin’ in every case.
Reading scores in a free fall drop,
But central office got a rooftop stop.

[Bridge – spoken or slow build]
Buses bought, then tossed or stored,
Millions lost — but no one's floored.
New positions made up overnight,
But no aides left to help kids write.

[Chorus]
🎶 Blank check, no soul,
While kids can’t read their own report roll.
They cut the lights, but built a stage,
Now outrage fits on every page.
Blank check, no guide,
Just fake reform and press that lied.
We see the rot, we know what’s next —
MSDE wrote a blank check. 🎶

[Verse 3 – final verse, direct hit]
BOE with their heads in sand,
Rubber-stamp moves they don’t understand.
The office suits just dodge and grin,
While schools collapse from within.

[Outro – haunting and stripped]
Lock the doors, ignore the hate,
Pass the blame, but never the plate.
Education sold for PR specs —
MSDE wrote a blank check.

Well damn!! Song of the Year material right here!

+1 ^PP should make a video on tiktok, yt, and it should make the rounds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's strange to think that people believe it costs an arm and a leg to produce these videos. In this day and age all you really need is a smartphone and editing software. It takes maybe thirty minutes to do post-production and MCPS TV has the qualified experience to pull this off.

No one thinks it costs anything. But it is a lot them eat cake .moment when TIME and ATTENTION is put towards useless crap like this instead of spearheading initiatives to make actual changes in the school system that are many and impactful.

How much time do you think? And do you really think a new initiative could have been "spearhead" in that time? One that would have been influential?

Leaders lead they don't sit around making up song lyrics and driving to up county high schools for a video 99% of students aren't going to see. And the optics on doing that instead of ... literally anything else, are very bad

It's telling that you think he shouldn't spend time at an upcounty high school.

Some of these posters would complain no matter what he did.

I expect him to follow through on his promises, none of which he's done.

[Anonymous]

For something that didn't take a lot of time and was amusing to watch, I’d say that it’s fine for what it is. And you never know what will go viral. (Or not.) Beyond that, the traffic stats for this particular video seem to suggest that quite a few people watched it, in contrast to many other videos from the same channel. (About 5,000 views.) Getting angry over a fun and uplifting video, essentially, seems rather misplaced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For something that didn't take a lot of time and was amusing to watch, I’d say that it’s fine for what it is. And you never know what will go viral. (Or not.) Beyond that, the traffic stats for this particular video seem to suggest that quite a few people watched it, in contrast to many other videos from the same channel. (About 5,000 views.) Getting angry over a fun and uplifting video, essentially, seems rather misplaced.

It's OK to have low expectations in life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For something that didn't take a lot of time and was amusing to watch, I’d say that it’s fine for what it is. And you never know what will go viral. (Or not.) Beyond that, the traffic stats for this particular video seem to suggest that quite a few people watched it, in contrast to many other videos from the same channel. (About 5,000 views.) Getting angry over a fun and uplifting video, essentially, seems rather misplaced.

5,000 views in a district with 160,000 kids is not a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have preferred "MSDE Wrote a Blank Check"

Here you go:

[Verse 1]
MSDE wrote a blank check,
MCPS cashed it, no regret.
Bathrooms locked — "safety," they claim,
While kids get jumped and no one takes blame.

No textbooks, no math facts, no plan,
Can’t spell “future” — but they say, “Yes we can.”
Swastikas on bathroom stalls,
Slurs in the hall — no one calls.

[Chorus]
🎶 Blank check, big lie,
While classrooms rot and students cry.
No spelling, no vocab, no how-to-write,
But there’s a new app dropping every night.
Blank check, lost trust,
School board spin while dreams turn to dust.
You funded chaos, not success —
MSDE wrote a blank check. 🎶

[Verse 2]
Violence rising, cameras blind,
Teachers leave, can't unwind.
“Restorative” means reset and repeat,
While the bullies run free down every street.

No study skills, no quiet space,
Just Chromebooks glitchin’ in every case.
Reading scores in a free fall drop,
But central office got a rooftop stop.

[Bridge – spoken or slow build]
Buses bought, then tossed or stored,
Millions lost — but no one's floored.
New positions made up overnight,
But no aides left to help kids write.

[Chorus]
🎶 Blank check, no soul,
While kids can’t read their own report roll.
They cut the lights, but built a stage,
Now outrage fits on every page.
Blank check, no guide,
Just fake reform and press that lied.
We see the rot, we know what’s next —
MSDE wrote a blank check. 🎶

[Verse 3 – final verse, direct hit]
BOE with their heads in sand,
Rubber-stamp moves they don’t understand.
The office suits just dodge and grin,
While schools collapse from within.

[Outro – haunting and stripped]
Lock the doors, ignore the hate,
Pass the blame, but never the plate.
Education sold for PR specs —
MSDE wrote a blank check.

Well damn!! Song of the Year material right here!

+1 ^PP should make a video on tiktok, yt, and it should make the rounds.

I made the song via chat gbt. Not that creative. There are apps to make videos but most are pay right now. It would be a good video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For something that didn't take a lot of time and was amusing to watch, I’d say that it’s fine for what it is. And you never know what will go viral. (Or not.) Beyond that, the traffic stats for this particular video seem to suggest that quite a few people watched it, in contrast to many other videos from the same channel. (About 5,000 views.) Getting angry over a fun and uplifting video, essentially, seems rather misplaced.

5,000 views in a district with 160,000 kids is not a lot.

To be fair I doubt many people both kids and parents are looking at the MCPS YouTube page.

[Anonymous]

While I think it’s cute, MCPS is broke, and schools are in disarray. We have bigger fish to fry than a music video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case you haven't seen Taylor released a bizarre music video with a song from 1996 called Going the Distsnce by a band not many parents and maybe less than 1% of students would remember called Cake. Truly a let them eat Cake moment when there is so much wrong at school. Aside from being completely weird to begin with, only a small handful of schools were mentioned in the video. I think Damascus and Clarksburg and some other school.


My first question is, who is paying for this strange music video?

My second question is, is Taylor ... off?

Your sense of reality is completely off. What gen x or millennial parent has NOT heard this song?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The time spent sitting down and planning the video, getting the students and schools whonperform in them etc is making me physically angry.

Use your time as superintendent to solve some actual problems-- of which we have many. This is tone deaf!

Help is available. You don’t have to live this close to the brink of rage all the time, PP. Ask your doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The time spent sitting down and planning the video, getting the students and schools whonperform in them etc is making me physically angry.

Use your time as superintendent to solve some actual problems-- of which we have many. This is tone deaf!

Help is available. You don’t have to live this close to the brink of rage all the time, PP. Ask your doctor.

We're all angry.
Sincerely,
Parents of curriculum 2.0 kids who are in college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The time spent sitting down and planning the video, getting the students and schools whonperform in them etc is making me physically angry.

Use your time as superintendent to solve some actual problems-- of which we have many. This is tone deaf!

Help is available. You don’t have to live this close to the brink of rage all the time, PP. Ask your doctor.

We're all angry.
Sincerely,
Parents of curriculum 2.0 kids who are in college

Things went down hill with curriculum 2.0 then the multiple curriculum since with no textbooks and no foundation work.