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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS is not genuinely interested in gathering the highest quality survey data.[/quote]
You're joking,  right?
This is how they will get the highest quality survey data by requiring students numbers. 
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If I have break down to you why requiring personal identifying information in a system like MCPS where mistrust and retaliation are high and how you would want to avoid that if you were prioritizing getting true sentiment of a statistically significant portion of the MCPS population, then you're not worth having the conversation with.[/quote]

I understand your larger point in theory, BUT:

My MCPS kids are 20 and 15. I can assure you that no one I know, kids or parents, is afraid of saying truths about MCPS to its face :-) Everyone is very outspoken, and no retaliation has ever occurred.

First, as a PP said, MCPS is not technically built to trawl around singling out people it doesn't like for retribution - this isn't the Trump White House and Project 2025. MCPS can barely hold itself together as it is.

Second, MCPS is used to endless criticism. Central Office gets attacked on the daily, by staff, students, Principals, parents, elected officials, real estate developers (because of capital planning), EVERYONE. Principals get eviscerated by parents in person at PTA meetings and on listserves where people need to sign their names and include the names of their children - I know, I've done that myself! One of my children has special needs: do you know how often I've advocated for them, and their special program, and said what needed to be said in countless surveys, IEP meetings, the parent association that advocates for this particular type of SN, and PTA meetings?!?! I have dealt with no fewer than SEVEN Principals in my kids' trajectory through various MCPS schools.

This thread is perpetuating harmful myths that speaking up will bring personal retribution to your child. It's not true.

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