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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how millennials idea of parenting is gossiping about how others aren’t doing enough for their kids while throwing in a few disingenuous virtue signals.

The schools will be the same + or - a percent, individual schools will perform and struggle differently based on their unique challenges and life will go on. Your kid will sink or swim depending on how well you parent.  [/quote]

I am one of the critics and I'n not just criticizing from the sidelines, I've actually invested a ton of time and effort into this process. I'm actually pretty furious about how MCPS sucked me into spending dozens of hours of my time on their sham "design team" process in the spring, at significant personal inconvenience, because I believed in the principles behind what they said they were doing and naively trusted that they would eventually get to the big questions and engage with us to come up with strong proposals.  Instead they wasted our time week after week on hours and hours of unimportant conversations and then slowed down and stopped meeting with us when they started getting into the real issues and people weren't just saying "your plans are great." If our involvement was just supposed to be a charade anyway, then they at least should have kept it to a handful of short meetings.

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Last week, a volunteer on the design team emailed the group asking when the next meeting would be, with a list of topics to address about implementation. A central office staffer replied saying no one is supposed to used that email group for substantive discussion, just confirmations of meeting times and zoom links.

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DP. This happened once before when someone wrote with a summary of concerns about the process. They are definitely trying to prevent design team members from coordinating. We are more effective when we do so.[/quote]

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