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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][img][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because school boards all over the world do not make decisions based on uneducated opinions.

If you want to affect change you should do research on what is the best way to educate a community, become an expert and advise them. [/quote]

The people in Central Office putting this together are not experts and have not consulted with experts-- they did not even consult with the teachers and administrators at existing programs when developing their plans.  There is far more expertise outside the circle of those making these plans than inside, and no way for that expertise to be raised or listened to in the planning process.

And just because school boards do not and should not make decisions based on majority vote of parents does not mean they should not gather community feedback and input.  Most school boards do, and even MCPS which is traditionally bad on the community involvement front is usually better than this.  There have been essentially zero genuine efforts to collect feedback on their proposals in order to assess whether any revisions or alterations might be worth considering.  Instead they came up with a top-down plan that Central Office staff decided was best and did not even go through the motions of asking teachers, students, parents, principals, etc what changes they want/don't want, what their reactions to the proposals are, what implications they foresee, etc.  That's poor practice even if it was done by a corporation which has no obligations to the public (because businesspeople know that if a plan is cooked up by a few people in an office without getting feedback from a variety of stakeholders and users, it's likely going to be a bad plan)-- it's indefensible when it's done by a school district and signed off on by a school board who are supposed to be there to make sure that community perspectives are considered.

It would be one thing if they were gathering feedback and then making decisions that don't align with the majority of that feedback, after clearly explaining why.  Sometimes that kind of thing does have to be done.  But instead they are being very clear that they don't care about and don't plan to solicit or consider feedback because they just want to do it their way.  That's not an acceptable way to run a school district.[/quote]

Nothing you posted is factual.[/quote]

No, your counterclaim is what is not factual.

Most of what the PP posted about how MCPS has done the Regional Program analysis is absolutely spot on.[/quote]

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