KID Museum moving to Bethesda Metro?

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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?

A soup kitchen would be more appropriate for covid funds. Has anyone's kids even played bocce ball in MCPS?

Our kids love it! They had a whole unit on it PE. I heard it was wonderful!

Lucky kids. Ours don’t get anything for pe and have to fake all sports. Or, we pay privately.

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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?

A soup kitchen would be more appropriate for covid funds. Has anyone's kids even played bocce ball in MCPS?

There was PLENTY of Covid money given out and used to to feed the kids. That’s why they had this extra Covid money to use for bocce.

The money should have been used for things like better ventilation. Or even more building services staff. Or paper towels and soap, seeing how my kids often tell me that the bathrooms are lacking basic supplies.

+1. And, they could have done a lot more for the kids still in virtual.

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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?

A soup kitchen would be more appropriate for covid funds. Has anyone's kids even played bocce ball in MCPS?

There was PLENTY of Covid money given out and used to to feed the kids. That’s why they had this extra Covid money to use for bocce.

The money should have been used for things like better ventilation. Or even more building services staff. Or paper towels and soap, seeing how my kids often tell me that the bathrooms are lacking basic supplies.

I'm glad they spent it on something fun like bocce! More handywipes won't do anyone any good.

Fun is great! It would be great if we could take everyone to Disneyworld, I’m sure they’d have lots of fun. However, that’s not the purpose of MCPS, nor was it the purpose of the COVID funds. It should have been used to offset the hardship caused by COVID. Money for PPE/COVID control as PP suggested, money to provide supplemental academic supports, money to improve the virtual learning experience, money to secure additional substitute teachers and substitute bus drivers would all have made sense. Bocce ball and Kid museum donations with an uncertain benefit to MCPS does not make sense. I resent that MCPS prioritized somebody’s idea of fun over something that would have a tangible benefit in time of crisis. I also deeply resent that MCPS used COVID funds for things that had nothing to do with COVID. If they honestly couldn’t find a COVID related use for these designated funds, then they should have returned them. This was not Santa bringing fun to MCPS, this was our government trying to mitigate the devastation caused by a global pandemic, and spreading itself thin in the process.

Yes, learning about their cultural heritage is also a big part of education and bocce seems like as good a place as any.

What does bocce ball have to do with cultural heritage. Do you realize how many better things mcps could have used the money for?

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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?

A soup kitchen would be more appropriate for covid funds. Has anyone's kids even played bocce ball in MCPS?

There was PLENTY of Covid money given out and used to to feed the kids. That’s why they had this extra Covid money to use for bocce.

The money should have been used for things like better ventilation. Or even more building services staff. Or paper towels and soap, seeing how my kids often tell me that the bathrooms are lacking basic supplies.

I'm glad they spent it on something fun like bocce! More handywipes won't do anyone any good.

Fun is great! It would be great if we could take everyone to Disneyworld, I’m sure they’d have lots of fun. However, that’s not the purpose of MCPS, nor was it the purpose of the COVID funds. It should have been used to offset the hardship caused by COVID. Money for PPE/COVID control as PP suggested, money to provide supplemental academic supports, money to improve the virtual learning experience, money to secure additional substitute teachers and substitute bus drivers would all have made sense. Bocce ball and Kid museum donations with an uncertain benefit to MCPS does not make sense. I resent that MCPS prioritized somebody’s idea of fun over something that would have a tangible benefit in time of crisis. I also deeply resent that MCPS used COVID funds for things that had nothing to do with COVID. If they honestly couldn’t find a COVID related use for these designated funds, then they should have returned them. This was not Santa bringing fun to MCPS, this was our government trying to mitigate the devastation caused by a global pandemic, and spreading itself thin in the process.

+1 million

Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

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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?

A soup kitchen would be more appropriate for covid funds. Has anyone's kids even played bocce ball in MCPS?

There was PLENTY of Covid money given out and used to to feed the kids. That’s why they had this extra Covid money to use for bocce.

The money should have been used for things like better ventilation. Or even more building services staff. Or paper towels and soap, seeing how my kids often tell me that the bathrooms are lacking basic supplies.

I'm glad they spent it on something fun like bocce! More handywipes won't do anyone any good.

Fun is great! It would be great if we could take everyone to Disneyworld, I’m sure they’d have lots of fun. However, that’s not the purpose of MCPS, nor was it the purpose of the COVID funds. It should have been used to offset the hardship caused by COVID. Money for PPE/COVID control as PP suggested, money to provide supplemental academic supports, money to improve the virtual learning experience, money to secure additional substitute teachers and substitute bus drivers would all have made sense. Bocce ball and Kid museum donations with an uncertain benefit to MCPS does not make sense. I resent that MCPS prioritized somebody’s idea of fun over something that would have a tangible benefit in time of crisis. I also deeply resent that MCPS used COVID funds for things that had nothing to do with COVID. If they honestly couldn’t find a COVID related use for these designated funds, then they should have returned them. This was not Santa bringing fun to MCPS, this was our government trying to mitigate the devastation caused by a global pandemic, and spreading itself thin in the process.

Yes, learning about their cultural heritage is also a big part of education and bocce seems like as good a place as any.

What does bocce ball have to do with cultural heritage. Do you realize how many better things mcps could have used the money for?

Your remarks are offensive and culturally and sensitive.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I have to disagree. I feel it's one of the best things they've spent money on and decades.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I have to disagree. I feel it's one of the best things they've spent money on and decades.

Let me guess, you live in a rich area and kids who have no needs above the standard needs. Sn kids need a lot of things but this is not one.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I have to disagree. I feel it's one of the best things they've spent money on and decades.

While I fail to see why bocce is one of the best things they’ve spent money on in decades, I’m willing to consider that maybe I’m missing something. However, if it was of such great value, MCPS should have budgeted its own funds for it (PE, sports, etc.). If MCPS managed without bocce for decades, then COVID did not disrupt our bocce status. The money was meant to offset the damage wrought by COVID, which does not include bocce

I tried to teach my kids that there is a difference between needs and wants. Just because you want something badly doesn’t make it a need. Needs have to be prioritized, but then if you’re careful, you can decide which wants to achieve. They may want ice cream, shiny new toys, etc., but they don’t need them. MCPS has to learn the difference between needs and wants. This is why I never support additional funding for MCPS. They go for the shiny new toy every time.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I beg to differ. Bocce is a far better use of funds than spending the millions and millions of astroturf for football fields. This is something that all children can enjoy.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I have to disagree. I feel it's one of the best things they've spent money on and decades.

While I fail to see why bocce is one of the best things they’ve spent money on in decades, I’m willing to consider that maybe I’m missing something. However, if it was of such great value, MCPS should have budgeted its own funds for it (PE, sports, etc.). If MCPS managed without bocce for decades, then COVID did not disrupt our bocce status. The money was meant to offset the damage wrought by COVID, which does not include bocce

I tried to teach my kids that there is a difference between needs and wants. Just because you want something badly doesn’t make it a need. Needs have to be prioritized, but then if you’re careful, you can decide which wants to achieve. They may want ice cream, shiny new toys, etc., but they don’t need them. MCPS has to learn the difference between needs and wants. This is why I never support additional funding for MCPS. They go for the shiny new toy every time.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I have to disagree. I feel it's one of the best things they've spent money on and decades.

While I fail to see why bocce is one of the best things they’ve spent money on in decades, I’m willing to consider that maybe I’m missing something. However, if it was of such great value, MCPS should have budgeted its own funds for it (PE, sports, etc.). If MCPS managed without bocce for decades, then COVID did not disrupt our bocce status. The money was meant to offset the damage wrought by COVID, which does not include bocce

I tried to teach my kids that there is a difference between needs and wants. Just because you want something badly doesn’t make it a need. Needs have to be prioritized, but then if you’re careful, you can decide which wants to achieve. They may want ice cream, shiny new toys, etc., but they don’t need them. MCPS has to learn the difference between needs and wants. This is why I never support additional funding for MCPS. They go for the shiny new toy every time.

I know! I have to agree spending a few dollars per student to introduce them to a wonderful game like bocce was money well spent! These people complaining about it seem to have a grudge against people of Italian descent.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I have to disagree. I feel it's one of the best things they've spent money on and decades.

While I fail to see why bocce is one of the best things they’ve spent money on in decades, I’m willing to consider that maybe I’m missing something. However, if it was of such great value, MCPS should have budgeted its own funds for it (PE, sports, etc.). If MCPS managed without bocce for decades, then COVID did not disrupt our bocce status. The money was meant to offset the damage wrought by COVID, which does not include bocce

I tried to teach my kids that there is a difference between needs and wants. Just because you want something badly doesn’t make it a need. Needs have to be prioritized, but then if you’re careful, you can decide which wants to achieve. They may want ice cream, shiny new toys, etc., but they don’t need them. MCPS has to learn the difference between needs and wants. This is why I never support additional funding for MCPS. They go for the shiny new toy every time.

I know! I have to agree spending a few dollars per student to introduce them to a wonderful game like bocce was money well spent! These people complaining about it seem to have a grudge against people of Italian descent.

What does Italian descent have to do with anything? The Board of Education used COVID-19 pandemic emergency funds to buy sports stuff and ignored doing anything to address the pandemic. ADD is really prevalent, but try to focus. Other school systems are vastly ahead of addressing the indoor ventilation issues that are known to be crucial in stopping the spread of COVID-19. The Board of Education is years behind now and they wasted the dedicated funding on luxury items.

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Anonymous wrote:Bocce ball is a no cut sport that is mosty for special needs students. They are entitled to a fun activity too

Yes, that is true. The County recreation department offers a ton of wonderful programs for special needs students.

But bocce is not something that MCPS should have spent its Covid money on.

I have to disagree. I feel it's one of the best things they've spent money on and decades.

While I fail to see why bocce is one of the best things they’ve spent money on in decades, I’m willing to consider that maybe I’m missing something. However, if it was of such great value, MCPS should have budgeted its own funds for it (PE, sports, etc.). If MCPS managed without bocce for decades, then COVID did not disrupt our bocce status. The money was meant to offset the damage wrought by COVID, which does not include bocce

I tried to teach my kids that there is a difference between needs and wants. Just because you want something badly doesn’t make it a need. Needs have to be prioritized, but then if you’re careful, you can decide which wants to achieve. They may want ice cream, shiny new toys, etc., but they don’t need them. MCPS has to learn the difference between needs and wants. This is why I never support additional funding for MCPS. They go for the shiny new toy every time.

I know! I have to agree spending a few dollars per student to introduce them to a wonderful game like bocce was money well spent! These people complaining about it seem to have a grudge against people of Italian descent.

What does Italian descent have to do with anything? The Board of Education used COVID-19 pandemic emergency funds to buy sports stuff and ignored doing anything to address the pandemic. ADD is really prevalent, but try to focus. Other school systems are vastly ahead of addressing the indoor ventilation issues that are known to be crucial in stopping the spread of COVID-19. The Board of Education is years behind now and they wasted the dedicated funding on luxury items.

Yes, bocce is a key part of the conspiracy by Monifa and her board minions to corrupt our youth and destroy MCPS!

[Anonymous]

Schools are scrambling to use Covid funds, as it’s a lot of temporarily available money. The challenge is that the money will not be there in a few years. Maybe the central admin thought getting bocce equipment is a good use of funds because they’d be start up costs as opposed to something they’d need to sustain. That doesn’t mean it’s the best use, but that might be the reasoning.