Support the Montgomery Virtual Academy (MVA) from Budget Cuts!

[Anonymous]

Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

I was thinking the same thing. PGCPS has a virtual option. Maybe there could be a small fee to join.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

I was thinking the same thing. PGCPS has a virtual option. Maybe there could be a small fee to join.

Have the assessment results for PGCPS's virtual option been as awful as the MVA's results or did they figure out how to provide instruction in a way that works generally for the participants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

This isn't a bad idea, but we should do virtual placement based on medical need and ensure every enrolled child has an effective and safe learning environment at home.

[Anonymous]

Question for virtual families on this thread -are your kids in ES, MS or HS? Were you hoping to do the VA for K-12 or only a few years as a stop gap? What are your plans now? Are you going to give in-person school a try?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

I was thinking the same thing. PGCPS has a virtual option. Maybe there could be a small fee to join.

Have the assessment results for PGCPS's virtual option been as awful as the MVA's results or did they figure out how to provide instruction in a way that works generally for the participants?

What are you talking about? Every single parent fighting for the MVA has said that MCPS virtual does work in a way for their students. It’s all the parents who have no idea what they are talking about who claim it’s so “awful.” MVA parents aren’t sitting around calling in person parents child abusers, pretending to know how in person has been going, etc. It’s really wild how people so against the MVA truly have no clue but continue to fight against it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just love that the person who says “significant school choice” is the “only” thing that’ll salvage American education is hellbent on denying others that same choice. The cognitive dissonance is astounding but not surprising.

I'm not the school choice poster, but I'll note that the MVA supporters aren't any better. They now like to talk about how important it is to offer the choice of virtual because not all kids can learn in the same environment, but they still won't acknowledge it was wrong to deny kids a similar choice for 18 months until the fall of 2021.

The reality is everyone is watching out for themselves and their kids. If you want to send your kids to MVA, or you want to teach in MVA, then that means coming up with arguments to support it, regardless of any logical inconsistencies with previous positions expressed. If you send your kids to MCPS schools, then that means advocating for maximizing the resources available to those schools by keeping MVA closed.

Actually most MVA parents fully acknowledge that virtual didn’t work for everyone. It’s in person parents who won’t acknowledge virtual works for others without trying to say they are bad parents, want kids to go on vacations, shield their eyes from school clothing (the most bizarre argument yet), etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

This isn't a bad idea, but we should do virtual placement based on medical need and ensure every enrolled child has an effective and safe learning environment at home.

Virtual should be open to anyone who wants virtual school. Kids attending in person school aren’t always going home to safe environments. Stop worrying how other people choose to educate their kids and focus on your own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

This isn't a bad idea, but we should do virtual placement based on medical need and ensure every enrolled child has an effective and safe learning environment at home.

Virtual should be open to anyone who wants virtual school. Kids attending in person school aren’t always going home to safe environments. Stop worrying how other people choose to educate their kids and focus on your own.

This is a ridiculous thing to say in the context of a public school system that has a budget shortfall. Come up with $5 million in private funding for the MVA and I will stop caring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

I was thinking the same thing. PGCPS has a virtual option. Maybe there could be a small fee to join.

Small fee? You'd have to pay full out of state fees to join. Its cheaper for MCPS to do it in house when you do the math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

This isn't a bad idea, but we should do virtual placement based on medical need and ensure every enrolled child has an effective and safe learning environment at home.

Virtual should be open to anyone who wants virtual school. Kids attending in person school aren’t always going home to safe environments. Stop worrying how other people choose to educate their kids and focus on your own.

This is a ridiculous thing to say in the context of a public school system that has a budget shortfall. Come up with $5 million in private funding for the MVA and I will stop caring.

It has a shortfall because of inappropriate unnecessary spending. If you gave us the line by line spending we could find lots of things to cut to find $5 million, or even $10 million to expand the MVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just love that the person who says “significant school choice” is the “only” thing that’ll salvage American education is hellbent on denying others that same choice. The cognitive dissonance is astounding but not surprising.

I'm not the school choice poster, but I'll note that the MVA supporters aren't any better. They now like to talk about how important it is to offer the choice of virtual because not all kids can learn in the same environment, but they still won't acknowledge it was wrong to deny kids a similar choice for 18 months until the fall of 2021.

The reality is everyone is watching out for themselves and their kids. If you want to send your kids to MVA, or you want to teach in MVA, then that means coming up with arguments to support it, regardless of any logical inconsistencies with previous positions expressed. If you send your kids to MCPS schools, then that means advocating for maximizing the resources available to those schools by keeping MVA closed.

Actually most MVA parents fully acknowledge that virtual didn’t work for everyone. It’s in person parents who won’t acknowledge virtual works for others without trying to say they are bad parents, want kids to go on vacations, shield their eyes from school clothing (the most bizarre argument yet), etc.

The vacation part is funny as those of us with health issues or our kids with health issues, aren't exactly traveling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

I was thinking the same thing. PGCPS has a virtual option. Maybe there could be a small fee to join.

Have the assessment results for PGCPS's virtual option been as awful as the MVA's results or did they figure out how to provide instruction in a way that works generally for the participants?

Can you give us the current assessment results for the MVA before you claim they are terrible and compare them to the lowest preforming schools and then lets cut any low preforming schools doing worse than the MVA and those kids can go to the MVA or your child's school. I'm sure you'd welcome them with open arms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

This isn't a bad idea, but we should do virtual placement based on medical need and ensure every enrolled child has an effective and safe learning environment at home.

Virtual should be open to anyone who wants virtual school. Kids attending in person school aren’t always going home to safe environments. Stop worrying how other people choose to educate their kids and focus on your own.

This is a ridiculous thing to say in the context of a public school system that has a budget shortfall. Come up with $5 million in private funding for the MVA and I will stop caring.

It has a shortfall because of inappropriate unnecessary spending. If you gave us the line by line spending we could find lots of things to cut to find $5 million, or even $10 million to expand the MVA.

I’m just a concerned citizen responding to the crazy assertion that I have no right to care about how the county decides to spend my tax dollars on educating kids. Go find someone else to give you the line item budget. I think it’s too late for these kinds of arguments anyway, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery should join with Frederick and/or other counties to offer a consolidated virtual academy. More bang for the buck.

I was thinking the same thing. PGCPS has a virtual option. Maybe there could be a small fee to join.

Have the assessment results for PGCPS's virtual option been as awful as the MVA's results or did they figure out how to provide instruction in a way that works generally for the participants?

Can you give us the current assessment results for the MVA before you claim they are terrible and compare them to the lowest preforming schools and then lets cut any low preforming schools doing worse than the MVA and those kids can go to the MVA or your child's school. I'm sure you'd welcome them with open arms.

It’s arguments like these (e.g., “let’s close YOUR school and see how you like it” and “let’s free up money by closing every school that performs worse than the MVA”) that got you where you are now. You’re not a serious person and these aren’t serious arguments. Do better. Your kids are depending on you.