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[quote=Anonymous]I mean, I guess that’s what I’m trying to say...it seems like a lot. But is it really more than any other school district? Or is it board members making politically motivated mountains out of molehills? And the media and our republican governor  eating it up because everyone loves a scandal in a majority black county? I don’t really know and I’m trying to check any potential biases here and not hold PG to a different standard than I would a different county. 
Like, for instance, a few weeks ago when the teachers were going to strike because of “pay raises” that turned out to be an administrative error on the part of low level HR employees that was corrected. Or when they complained about PGCPS taking away funds for school supplies, when in reality admin is just changing the budgeting to give principals more discretion (which may result in crappy principals  providing less money for teacher supplies but is hardly a scandal). But the way it gets reported, there is just this constant barrage of PG! SCANDAL! And everyone just goes with it without getting the actual facts because it just fits with their preexisting biases of this county.
In DC you have the actual chancellors doing shady things with the mayors approval!
That’s not to say there haven’t been some real awful things happen- the judge Sylviania woods elem sex abuse being one- but IMO things like that were a result of a lack of processes in place from preexisting dysfunction that Maxwell inherited. And sex abuse is definitely not unique to any one school system.  [/quote]

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