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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools are scrambling to use Covid funds, as it’s a lot of temporarily available money. The challenge is that the money will not be there in a few years. Maybe the central admin thought getting bocce equipment is a good use of funds because they’d be start up costs as opposed to something they’d need to sustain. That doesn’t mean it’s the best use, but that might be the reasoning. [/quote]

[b]There are lots of ways to spend that money responsibly[/b].    This was not one.  [/quote]

OK, well they actually did propose to spend the ESSER III funds in lots of ways. According to the grant application linked earlier, only $223,800 was specified for bocce. The overall total amount of the grant was $252.2 million:

• The requested funds will be used to provide for:
o Position salaries;
o Non-position salaries;
o Stipends;
o Associated employee benefits;
o Contractual services;
o Special education compensatory services;
o Instructional materials and technology support and resources.

• The requested grant funds will support a total of 271 additional positions. The positions to be
added include: 113 teachers; 32 paraeducators; 50 social workers; 40 counselors; and a range of
other positions. [/quote]
Ah. So bocce was less than 0.001 of the proposal.[/quote]

But please don't let facts get in the way of the false narrative of corruption and dereliction which these regular posters are pushing. [/quote]

You do realize that there are many schools with very unsafe conditions and that money would have been better spent on repairs.  Or, more social workers and counselors if the mental health needs that MCPS said are so great.

Now, did they actually fill and create all those positions or did they waste it  on bocce  where we have no  idea where the kits are.[/quote]

Same could be said for the new astro turf field at BCC that cost millions.[/quote]

It is a huge waste for all the schools to get astro turf given it only benefits a select few/group and not all schools have it.

MCPS just sent their newest update about hiring more administrators.[/quote]

I agree and things like this are far more common than the silly things the poster keeps complaining about.[/quote]

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