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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few things:

[b]1) Prioritize Safety and Security in school.[/b] A PP said in the classroom, but safety and security is a problem throughout the school building as bathrooms, hallways and cafeterias are breeding grounds for abuse, physical violence and substance use. MCPS must take its buildings back and get serious about security and safety, which means putting in place meaningful and serious security resources and implementing disciplinary measures that hold violators accountable and deter other kids from following in violators' footsteps.

[b]2) More real-time action, less talk.[/b] As a legislative body, the BOE takes too long to respond to urgent and pressing problems. While it's important to be thorough, it's sometimes more important to be present and engaged. Most parents would take an imperfect solution over no solution. But because the BOE is afraid of not pleasing everyone, too often they sit on their hands and do nothing, which also ends up not pleasing everyone either. So they might as well get some credit with some folks for taking action rather than doing nothing and still pissing everyone off.

[b]3) Stop kissing MCPS admin's ass and provide meaningful oversight.[/b] The BOE is supposed to be a check on MCPS admin. But the BOE is too cozy and rarely rebukes or punishes MCPS admin for its lackluster results and outcomes. The harshest critics of MCPS should come from the board, but too often, it's parents, teachers and students who are doing most of the critical work that results in any modest improvements that happen within MCPS. This needs to change and the BOE needs to take more seriously its role of holding MCPS accountable as a system. Even if that means hurting some of their friends' feelings.[/quote]

Don't know about any of this but what would please me is reigning in the runaway spending on pointless sh$t.[/quote]

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