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[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]

Here is the thing - it's easy to fall into dichotomous thinking on the programs: for/against. In fact, many of us wanted to roll out more programs, but do it in a way that ensured fidelity to curriculum and provide support of new school programs in Damascus, and elsewhere, through instructional leadership teams. Now what we will get instead are programs that will be poorly developed and I am thinking that transportation will be a huge challenge as well.[/quote]

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