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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been soliciting and incorporating community feedback on the program analysis/regional program model.[/quote]

This is not untrue.  The have a page for the Program Analysis where questions be submitted.  They did a survey at the beginning to determine parent/student program interest.  They have been having meetings with the community.  It may not be the most expansive engagement and they may not have made all the changes the feedback suggested (like slowing down), but they are not actually lying here.[/quote]

Nope, sorry.  The meetings with the community are not to gather feedback, they are to tell the community what has already been decided (hence being called "information sessions" rather than a title you would use if soliciting feedback, like hearing or listening session or, feedback opportunity, or heck, even just calling it a "meeting" would leave the door open to it being about collecting feedback, rather than calling it an information session which makes it abundantly clear that you should only come if you want them to explain their predetermined plans to you.). Likewise, their form is to gather questions to so they can provide answers, rather than to gather feedback so they can consider it in revising (again, it would be titled and structured differently if it were designed to gather feedback, rather than calling it the "Ask A Question" form.) And the initial survey was both very vague and also obviously not a method of soliciting feedback on their proposals since there were no proposals at that point.

And even if it were true that those all were actually methods of collecting feedback-- which, again, they're not-- it would still be a lie that they are interested in feedback and willing to incorporate it into their plans.  If they wanted feedback and were open to it, they would have tried to collect it long before now.[/quote]

You can not like there methods of feedback or even make the case that haven't done enough to get good feedback.  I won't dispute that.  But that doesn't mean they are lying when they say they have sought feedback.  They did he survey, they have the site, you can attend the meetings, you can e-mail questions/thoughts to people, you can ask questions during the boundary study session (even though I think there should be similar session specifically for the program analysis) and they have a design team which includes community partners (of which they may need more).

The point is that they aren't telling a lie.  They may need to do more and better, but that doesn't mean they are telling a lie.[/quote]

Asking for feedback on the boundary study is not the same as asking for feedback on the program analysis/regional program model. Not a single person/email/message from MCPS has asked me for feedback on their program analysis or regional program model. If they had I would have noted their program analysis is deeply flawed. What they did do is send out a vague survey last spring about what programs I think would be useful at secondary schools. That is not feedback, that is just collecting people's thoughts about a vague topic. Feedback means presenting an idea/document/model and asking people what they think about it.

From what I have heard at my PTA, NUMEROUS people have reached out to MCPS staff with questions and received absolutely nothing in response. They described MCPS as a "brick wall" on this topic. They are not interested in community feedback on their proposals, they have not solicited this feedback and are providing "information" that doesn't pass the most basic smell test.
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