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[quote=Anonymous]People may have different opinions on the proposed program changes and destruction of the DCC/NEC.  But what if we come together to call for MCPS to have an actual feedback process before making any final decisions?

There have been no opportunities for general feedback on this at all.  No surveys to gather feedback on their proposals.  No in-person or virtual meetings to collect feedback and get reactions. Not even an online form or email address soliciting feedback (folks who want to have been forced to cram it into the "ask a question" form.). Principals are only recently being  talked to about this and many teachers at programs still haven't been.  The program design advisory committee just gets ignored too, but even if they weren't, that's still just a few dozen people.  The latest set of meetings they announced are just for 6th and 7th grade parents and appear to be just for MCPS staff to explain what they already decided.  They are not even collecting feedback and ignoring it-- they're just not bothering to gather feedback.

Honestly even if you don't care about the program analysis at all, you should care about not letting MCPS get away with having a bunch of Central Office staff make big decisions without even going through the motions of hearing from students, parents, teachers, program staff, principals, etc.  It's a bad process and it leads to bad decisions, and if we and the Board let them do it on this, they will continue to do it on other issues too.

What if we just got a bunch of people to say this over and over again to MCPS and the Board through emails, Board testimony, and every time we see them in person?  Give a bunch of testimony and instead of (or in addition to) talking about specific concerns with the program analysis changes, everyone says "there has been no real community input, it's not okay to move forward on big changes without community input" enough times that Taylor is forced to respond to it and can't get away with vague lies about them welcoming feedback like he did at the last meeting, and/or that the Board becomes uneasy about supporting it (even if they feel like it's not their role to get into the details of specific programs, they are hopefully more willing to insist on MCPS gathering input and feedback first)?  [/quote]

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