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[quote=Anonymous]I have lost trust in my public school officials. Before, my main exposure to their decision making was seeing my child come home and seeing how much they are learning. I was happy about the progress, and believed the people making it happen had their sh!t together.

Once I started seeing the terrible planning and decision making for MCPS, I cannot unsee it. As soon as the schools shut in March, why weren’t they figuring the logistics of coming back in Sept? It was obvious to me by the time the school year ended in June that even if they wanted to start the school year in person they did not have the time to implement safety measures - it takes time to buy and order and distribute and install PPE. At that point they should have been pivoting to DL instead of waffling all summer. They should have asked for funds to pay teachers to come back early to learn how to maximize the impact of DL.

We have switched to private, which I never thought I would do. It’s not that I think that they are so much better in terms of the education they deliver, but when I started touring the schools in early June, they had clearly already spent weeks thinking about how they could open - one directional hallways, outdoor classroom spaces, modifications to use bathrooms safely, etc, etc.

It also made me realize that MCPS cannot respond quickly to changing conditions. They won’t just “go back to normal”, it will takes months and process.

FWIW, my DH and I are both products of public schools, we fully expected to put our kids in McPS for their entire k-12 education.

On a more hopeful note, Inhope MCPS realizes they to change their processes to be more nimble and responsive. If I see that, I would come back.[/quote]

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