Re-instituting Virtual Academy in MCPS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money!

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues.

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.

The issue is not about the state affording it. They only license programs, not run them. They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does. The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people. You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants. It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do. You are cruel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I moved my kid to Montgomery County to learn Montgomery Country virtual arithmetic and history.

I'm not paying taxes for my kid to learn Allegheny County virtual arithmetic and history.

Great then send your kid to an MCPS in person school. The MVA is gone.

Many MVA students did not return resulting in a huge loss of revenue.

Huge? There were only a few hundred kids in virtual academy.

No, there were not a few hundred. You love making things up. And a few hundred - MCPS gets what $19.800K per child, so lets say around kids left, that would be around $6 million right there.

Numbers declined as they were not allowing students off the waitlist. Pay attention to what happened vs. your own narative.

What are the actual numbers for the funding MCPS lost as a result of this great migration out of the school system? As opposed to the ones you just made up out of thin air.

No, I’m not making it up. Pay attention to what has been shared. You think all the kids went back in person? Some yes, but many left and the rest went into the other programs, none of which are adequate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money!

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues.

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.

The issue is not about the state affording it. They only license programs, not run them. They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does. The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people. You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants. It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do. You are cruel.

You sound really ignorant and entitled. Everything costs money. Virginia's.program costs money. Sounds like you want people to work for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved my kid to Montgomery County to learn Montgomery Country virtual arithmetic and history.

I'm not paying taxes for my kid to learn Allegheny County virtual arithmetic and history.

Great then send your kid to an MCPS in person school. The MVA is gone.

Many MVA students did not return resulting in a huge loss of revenue.

Huge? There were only a few hundred kids in virtual academy.

No, there were not a few hundred. You love making things up. And a few hundred - MCPS gets what $19.800K per child, so lets say around kids left, that would be around $6 million right there.

Numbers declined as they were not allowing students off the waitlist. Pay attention to what happened vs. your own narative.

What are the actual numbers for the funding MCPS lost as a result of this great migration out of the school system? As opposed to the ones you just made up out of thin air.

No, I’m not making it up. Pay attention to what has been shared. You think all the kids went back in person? Some yes, but many left and the rest went into the other programs, none of which are adequate.

Got it - so you have no clue what the actual numbers are and instead will continue to just toss out your best guess, and ignore the PP from a couple posts back who showed you why the basic assumptions you’re using to make this stuff up (per student spending on fixed costs vs per student funding) are 100% wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money!

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues.

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.

The issue is not about the state affording it. They only license programs, not run them. They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does. The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people. You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants. It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do. You are cruel.

You sound really ignorant and entitled. Everything costs money. Virginia's.program costs money. Sounds like you want people to work for free.

What are you talking about? Someone is pushing the state option. They will not say what it should look like or who will pay for it. MCPS has the funds and needs to pay for it. We are in 2025, not in 1925 but even then they had a form of it at times.

In hs, kids have to be bussed to other schools for classes. Virtual would be cheaper and give kids the classes they need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money!

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues.

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.

The issue is not about the state affording it. They only license programs, not run them. They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does. The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people. You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants. It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do. You are cruel.

You sound really ignorant and entitled. Everything costs money. Virginia's.program costs money. Sounds like you want people to work for free.

What are you talking about? Someone is pushing the state option. They will not say what it should look like or who will pay for it. MCPS has the funds and needs to pay for it. We are in 2025, not in 1925 but even then they had a form of it at times.

In hs, kids have to be bussed to other schools for classes. Virtual would be cheaper and give kids the classes they need.

The people who convinced delegates Vogel and Miller to write the new law are pretty much all from MoCo. They want MCPS to reinstitute the virtual academy and aren’t interested in a state-wide option. If you take a look at the families who Delegates Vogel and Miller invited to testify when the Bill went to committee last week, they’re pretty much all MoCo interests. Having struck out with the MCPS BOE, this was a way for these supporters to pull a different lever to bring back the MVA. If the delegates were serious about providing the best and most cost-efficient virtual option for all of Maryland’s learners, they of course would have put the work in to assess a state-wide option. But the goal was a much more localized and focused one - MoCo families want their MoCo run virtual option back and found 2 delegates who were open to creating an unfunded mandate on the county to do so.

17 out of 23 Maryland school districts operate a virtual academy. MCPS is by far the most high profile district that does not and is the locus of the most ardent and the loudest supporters of the MVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money!

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues.

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.

The issue is not about the state affording it. They only license programs, not run them. They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does. The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people. You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants. It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do. You are cruel.

You sound really ignorant and entitled. Everything costs money. Virginia's.program costs money. Sounds like you want people to work for free.

What are you talking about? Someone is pushing the state option. They will not say what it should look like or who will pay for it. MCPS has the funds and needs to pay for it. We are in 2025, not in 1925 but even then they had a form of it at times.

In hs, kids have to be bussed to other schools for classes. Virtual would be cheaper and give kids the classes they need.

The people who convinced delegates Vogel and Miller to write the new law are pretty much all from MoCo. They want MCPS to reinstitute the virtual academy and aren’t interested in a state-wide option. If you take a look at the families who Delegates Vogel and Miller invited to testify when the Bill went to committee last week, they’re pretty much all MoCo interests. Having struck out with the MCPS BOE, this was a way for these supporters to pull a different lever to bring back the MVA. If the delegates were serious about providing the best and most cost-efficient virtual option for all of Maryland’s learners, they of course would have put the work in to assess a state-wide option. But the goal was a much more localized and focused one - MoCo families want their MoCo run virtual option back and found 2 delegates who were open to creating an unfunded mandate on the county to do so.

17 out of 23 Maryland school districts operate a virtual academy. MCPS is by far the most high profile district that does not and is the locus of the most ardent and the loudest supporters of the MVA.

You keep talking about a state option but have no clear answers on how that would work. Who would run it? Who would pay for it? What would it look like? How would it compare to the MVA? If 17 districts have it, why doesn’t MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money!

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues.

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.

The issue is not about the state affording it. They only license programs, not run them. They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does. The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people. You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants. It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do. You are cruel.

You sound really ignorant and entitled. Everything costs money. Virginia's.program costs money. Sounds like you want people to work for free.

What are you talking about? Someone is pushing the state option. They will not say what it should look like or who will pay for it. MCPS has the funds and needs to pay for it. We are in 2025, not in 1925 but even then they had a form of it at times.

In hs, kids have to be bussed to other schools for classes. Virtual would be cheaper and give kids the classes they need.

The people who convinced delegates Vogel and Miller to write the new law are pretty much all from MoCo. They want MCPS to reinstitute the virtual academy and aren’t interested in a state-wide option. If you take a look at the families who Delegates Vogel and Miller invited to testify when the Bill went to committee last week, they’re pretty much all MoCo interests. Having struck out with the MCPS BOE, this was a way for these supporters to pull a different lever to bring back the MVA. If the delegates were serious about providing the best and most cost-efficient virtual option for all of Maryland’s learners, they of course would have put the work in to assess a state-wide option. But the goal was a much more localized and focused one - MoCo families want their MoCo run virtual option back and found 2 delegates who were open to creating an unfunded mandate on the county to do so.

17 out of 23 Maryland school districts operate a virtual academy. MCPS is by far the most high profile district that does not and is the locus of the most ardent and the loudest supporters of the MVA.

And, isn’t it great parents are advocating for a school they felt was good for their kids? Too bad more parents don’t advocate or we’d have actual change

[Anonymous]

I think the VA is a dead horse at the moment. There is a serious budget crisis at the moment in MD and Montgomery County. There are worries that the federal government chaos and layoffs are going to negatively impact the DMV economy. Universities are losing a ton of grant money. It would be fiscally irresponsible to bring back the virtual academy right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the VA is a dead horse at the moment. There is a serious budget crisis at the moment in MD and Montgomery County. There are worries that the federal government chaos and layoffs are going to negatively impact the DMV economy. Universities are losing a ton of grant money. It would be fiscally irresponsible to bring back the virtual academy right now.

One has nothing to do with the other. MCPS has a huge budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the VA is a dead horse at the moment. There is a serious budget crisis at the moment in MD and Montgomery County. There are worries that the federal government chaos and layoffs are going to negatively impact the DMV economy. Universities are losing a ton of grant money. It would be fiscally irresponsible to bring back the virtual academy right now.

One has nothing to do with the other. MCPS has a huge budget.

Keep dreaming I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the VA is a dead horse at the moment. There is a serious budget crisis at the moment in MD and Montgomery County. There are worries that the federal government chaos and layoffs are going to negatively impact the DMV economy. Universities are losing a ton of grant money. It would be fiscally irresponsible to bring back the virtual academy right now.

One has nothing to do with the other. MCPS has a huge budget.

Keep dreaming I guess.

I will as there are kids who need the MVA and it’s sad adults cannot support kids needs. This is why we have so many kids struggling right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the VA is a dead horse at the moment. There is a serious budget crisis at the moment in MD and Montgomery County. There are worries that the federal government chaos and layoffs are going to negatively impact the DMV economy. Universities are losing a ton of grant money. It would be fiscally irresponsible to bring back the virtual academy right now.

One has nothing to do with the other. MCPS has a huge budget.

…and a BOE that voted to terminate the experiment of the MVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money!

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues.

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.

The issue is not about the state affording it. They only license programs, not run them. They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does. The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people. You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants. It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do. You are cruel.

You sound really ignorant and entitled. Everything costs money. Virginia's.program costs money. Sounds like you want people to work for free.

What are you talking about? Someone is pushing the state option. They will not say what it should look like or who will pay for it. MCPS has the funds and needs to pay for it. We are in 2025, not in 1925 but even then they had a form of it at times.

In hs, kids have to be bussed to other schools for classes. Virtual would be cheaper and give kids the classes they need.

The people who convinced delegates Vogel and Miller to write the new law are pretty much all from MoCo. They want MCPS to reinstitute the virtual academy and aren’t interested in a state-wide option. If you take a look at the families who Delegates Vogel and Miller invited to testify when the Bill went to committee last week, they’re pretty much all MoCo interests. Having struck out with the MCPS BOE, this was a way for these supporters to pull a different lever to bring back the MVA. If the delegates were serious about providing the best and most cost-efficient virtual option for all of Maryland’s learners, they of course would have put the work in to assess a state-wide option. But the goal was a much more localized and focused one - MoCo families want their MoCo run virtual option back and found 2 delegates who were open to creating an unfunded mandate on the county to do so.

17 out of 23 Maryland school districts operate a virtual academy. MCPS is by far the most high profile district that does not and is the locus of the most ardent and the loudest supporters of the MVA.

You keep talking about a state option but have no clear answers on how that would work. Who would run it? Who would pay for it? What would it look like? How would it compare to the MVA? If 17 districts have it, why doesn’t MCPS?

Maybe because the BOE voted to terminate the program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the VA is a dead horse at the moment. There is a serious budget crisis at the moment in MD and Montgomery County. There are worries that the federal government chaos and layoffs are going to negatively impact the DMV economy. Universities are losing a ton of grant money. It would be fiscally irresponsible to bring back the virtual academy right now.

One has nothing to do with the other. MCPS has a huge budget.

Keep dreaming I guess.

I will as there are kids who need the MVA and it’s sad adults cannot support kids needs. This is why we have so many kids struggling right now.

+1. We should throw $5 million at every pocket of 800 kids who have parents loud enough to demand they need it.