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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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I have a BFF in the design team who shared the same experience and frustration with you. They were contributing numerous hours and efforts during high career instability (federal employee RIF etc), but felt a completely waste of time and extreme anxiety in seeing MCPS using their names as the scapegoats for “designing” the regions models. They were also on Taylor’s hiring committee, and regretted so much now. He seemed to be the best candidate back then and he promised a lot. [/quote]

I’d like to hear more about what you mean by “big questions” and “real issues”? If you meant what I think you mean - transportation, staffing, curriculum, program quality and/or student academic preparation - they are starting to share the transportation plan and annual program evaluation metrics as of the last meeting on November 20th. Would love to hear your thoughts.[/quote]

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