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Normally the BOE sends out a notice once the calendar is set.  They have never before sent out an email like this.  I want an email saying what the final calendar is and that’s it.

They didn’t even send out an email to all parents when there was an incident where guns were brought to a school.  They did not send out a universal email when the RM Security Team Leader was found to have been having a sexual relationship with a student.  Why did the BOE choose to send out this particular email?  Maybe it’s just random but it does seem slightly political to me.  But maybe I’m wrong.  They’ve also been known to make these calendar issue a political issue in the past.  They sent Hogan several letters last year about the calendar, etc.  [/quote]

Why is it "a political issue" when a local board of education sends the governor a letter about a matter directly related to the governor's regulation of the local board of education's responsibilities?

Also, unlike when a student brings guns to a school, or when a security team leader at a high school has a sexual relationship with a student, the calendar affects everybody in MCPS. So it makes sense not to send out an e-mail to all parents for the former, but to send out an e-mail to all parents for the latter.[/quote]

Okay, maybe you’re right.  I’ll give the BOE the benefit of the doubt.

Though I do strongly believe that student safety should be MCPS’ Number 1 priority and personally, I’d prefer they focus their energies on doing a better job with that.  That is way more important to me than what Day school starts/ends.

It’s been pretty clear over the past two years that MCPS has issues with keeping kids safe - the sexual predator issues, weapons at school, that poor girl in Gaithersburg who didn’t get access to her inhaler, the incident (possible rape) at Rockville HS.  And we haven’t received as many emails about what MCPS is doing to ensure kids’ safety at school.

Somewhat OT, but just IMHO.[/quote]

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