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[quote=Anonymous]"I’m sure good people are scared off by the possibility of getting raked over the coals on places like DCUM if they are on the board. I’d be nervous to put my family through that. I think we probably scare off good superintendents too. Whatever you thought of dr Starr, he clearly wasn’t the reason for the problems in MCPS, much as Dr Smith will be unlikely to be able to fix them. As far as I can see, booting Starr out did nothing to improve anything and just introduced more turmoil. Jack Smith seems fine too, but we’ll probably throw him into the fire soon too. The state needs to make education a priority and that board of ed needs to go. I actually think Starr and Smith are both well-intentioned and trying (or tried) to make good changes."

To support this I would add that changes for the better happen, slowly.  Only in movies does someone come in, change things all at once, and then everyone lives happily ever after.

If we keep jumping from curriculum to curriculum there is no time for everyone to even get fully trained, let alone optimize things for their own classes.  At this point, I think it would be better to learn to implement 2.0 at something approaching a flawless level rather than to start over and set us even further back.  There are so many other things that could use this type of slow improvement rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water, I wish someone would run on a slow but steady platform.[/quote]

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