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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school can't explain how they're going to do it, because the plan will differ whether it's 1 child in 4th grade who opts out of the book/movie/project, or 15, or 50. If it's 1, they'll go sit in the office and read their own book in the corner.  If it's 15, they'll make a separate "book club" for those 15 to read something else. If it's 50, they'll swap kids around between classrooms so some classes read book x and others read book y.

The idea that the school should tell you today what is going to happen to an unknown number of kids for an unknown book at an unknown point in the year is ridiculous.

Schools/teachers are already overworked, and now parents want to make them do twice the lesson planning. Send your kid to religious school, keep them home, or tell them, "You might hear X but mommy and daddy don't agree with that. We believe Y" and then trust that your parenting skills and relationships are strong enough that your kid will make it through a lesson you don't love.[/quote]

I dunno, that framework you described of different thresholds and different solutions based on those thresholds sounds like a plan that can and should be communicated by MCPS to me.[/quote]

DP. Yes, it should, when there's enough of a plan to share at a BOE meeting, for example. I don't know why the columnist expected MCPS staff to share something that's still being developed with them before it's been presented to the board.[/quote]

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