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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a Montoya fan-I think she thinks she has the market on equity and everyone else is beneath her but I can't say I blame her for this comment. Voting no and doing nothing is certainly not the answer. That resolution was so watered down it did absolutely nothing except pave the way to ultimately establish a better system than the definitely inadequate one we have now. There was really no reason to vote against it being built. The control ultimately comes in the form of ensuring it is built well.[/quote]

Are you saying you can't blame her for calling people racist for opposing the regional model? I'm curious where that comes from. The concerns I have heard and personally have about the regional model are not about wanting to deny access to something, more about the fact that it breaks what is available instead of building it.[/quote]

I live in Damascus/Clarksburg area so I don't claim to know anything about the DCC and I don't really understand why it needed to be dismantled in order to move forward with the regional program when it seems as though the new regions will function similarly to that model. All that to say, when we have so few programs in such far away places (for some of us), it allows those with more means or flexibility to more readily access them. That is why I understood Montoya's take that voting to not take on this project that would expand access felt limiting, or, in her word, racist.[/quote]

It sounds like you are frustrated that you live far from certain programs and are hopeful that the new model will offer your family more access. I hope that occurs at some point (I think it will be a good long while before there are meaningful good options available)! However, it sounds like you are extrapolating what Montoya meant by "racist" based on your own perspective. She should have been more clear about what she meant. For those of us in the DCC, her (and others) suggesting that anyone with concerns about them dismantling the DCC and the NEC and replacing it with the proposed 6 regions are racist is really confusing. She conflated programs that serve predominantly White and Asian students with the DCC and NEC. None of the programs she mentioned are in the NEC. One is in the DCC but serves students primarily from Wootton and Churchill. I completely agree that making kids travel from Rockville (or further) to Blair makes no sense. It's not fair to those kids. But the DCC is not SMCS.

In all of this talk about the regional model there has not been a public discussion about what worked and what didn't work about the consortia. In fact one Councilmember had to tell MCPS flat out to be honest that they were dismantling it because they wouldn't even come out and say that. To then call people racist because folks have an issue with this decision that was apparently agreed upon by every elected official except Yang* but never explained to the families that will be impacted by the dismantling is just incredibly disingenuous and disrespectful to the community.

*not sure wtf Yang intended to achieve with that vote lol but yeah we noticed she didn't shT about anything up until the vote. absolutely telling everyone I know not to vote for her[/quote]

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Thank you for eloquently explaining everything! 👏 [/quote]

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