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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is an MCPS principal I gather, at a close-in school that doesn't want parental involvement unless it's stuffing folders alone in a back room.[/quote]

Nah.  I think OP tells us the truth from her first post.  She grew up in a college town where everyone was middle class and well educated, and where people weren't freaking out about education because they had the privilege of knowing that their kids were likely to be just fine, as the kids of college professors and instructors.

She's trying to recreate that, but in a very different city.

The thing she is looking for doesn't really exist here.  Maybe Takoma Park 15 years ago.  If she doesn't care about racial or socioeconomic diversity and has $1 million to throw at the problem, maybe AU Park.

But the exact thing she is looking for (Madison in the mid-80s) isn't found here.  [/quote]

Ha ha, not Madison, but good guess.  The thing is the schools actually did have social & economic diversity - rural & migrant farmworker kids.  It wasn't some kind of bubble.  [/quote]

I guess you grew up in a more racially homogeneous place and closing the gap is not in the everyday vocabulary yet. MCPS is too diverse for parents to chill.

Another feature of MCPS is the huge presence of highly-educated immigrant/foreign parents community who are used to more rigor in schools. The east Asians, Russians, etc, they brought a lot of angst because they did not think school is demanding enough.

In some ways, you might actually be better off living in Bethesda and Potomac, because if you can avoid talking to other parents, you can probably just ride on their coattail and never do any advocacy on your own. Why do you care what other parents are doing anyway?

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Maybe.  Basically, I don't want to go to a school where I have to "do advocacy" or where other parents have the notion that they are customers and that the school system needs to conform to them.  And I say this as a parent who has had serious, serious problems with her current school system.  I just want functional, and normal.  [/quote]

So you are looking for a school where parental advocacy is not necessary? Because is sure seems like your complaint is with the parent advocates themselves. Which is really odd.[/quote]

It's both. I don't want to go to a school with such huge issues that parents have to "do advocacy."  And I don't want to go to a school where parents feel like they are obliged to do advocacy for every little thing like yogurt.  [/quote]

I'm not involved in school lunch "advocacy" or any other kind of advocacy in my DC's schools, but I think selling Trix yogurt in school is crazy as hell. Why not just give the kids Twizzlers and be done with it -- but them in bulk and save our tax dollars. Or better yet, why can't people who know something -- anything -- about nutrition make decisions about what is being sold in the cafeteria? In other words, I don't think Twix yogurt is "every little thing" and personally I would be grateful if parents at my MCPS schools would "do advocacy" by trying to make lunch options healthier and more sensible.[/quote]

Agreed. Making it a battle about yogurt trivialized the debate.  [/quote]

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