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So now what is your response to these arguments I list above.  "Batshit  crazy" is not really an argument.  The fact that equity sticks is a useful tool for teachers is noted, but misses the bigger picture arguments mentioned above.  [b]Rather than calling out names, just pick a topic on PC and lets debate.[/b]  When you do this, we can all learn from it.  If you just want to stay in your anti-PC tribe, then this will just be the usual name calling thread.   Posting a link and then just calling someone "Batshit crazy" is very juvenile, IMHO.
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OK, how about this one? This one was truly memorable.

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2012/08/guest-post-mcps-supports-french-olympic.html[/quote]

So it sounds like you are conceding on the issues I raised about equity sticks, right? I can't tell.  Also, I still wish you would make an argument when you post a link.

On the link you present, I see an ongoing issue that PC has been raising about no-bid contracts.   With respect to turf fields, they also have raised health issues.  I don't know the health issues real well, but I agree with them that 500K to 1M per artificial turf field contracts should not be no-bid contracts.  This is particularly true given that PC exposed former MCPS Superintendent Weast as going on Pearson, Inc junkets overseas at the same time as they were contracting with Pearson on the 2.0 curriculum.   Other news outlets picked up this Pearson practice in other parts of the country as well (as I recall).  As for the link above, I see it was posted by "Guest", not Janet Sartucci.  She usually is good at identifying herself.   As I said, I think this is just a sarcastic way of pointing out a no-bid contract issue.  I do agree it is not a great way to make the point in question.  i don't think it is very clever and kind of confuses a valid issue.

I am not in the PC.  I am just a parent.  I won't defend everything they do and chase down all your links, but they are not 'bat shit crazy'.  I have often seen the Washington Post pick up their stories and I daresay PC covers MCPS better than the Post, but that is just an opinion.   I don't blindly follow PC, but I do consider the factual documented information they present.  They are vital to keeping MCPS in check, IMHO.  MCPS you will recall has a still active principal that locks kids in closets and caused a large MCPS payout to settle a case against  former abused teachers.  This principal is still around last I heard at the beginning of this school year.  MCPS also stole money from special needs kids who earned this money in a work-study program.   MCPS has a large admin staff that goes on lots of conferences, while the PTA at our school has to raise money for teacher supplies.  These are all valid issues in my book.   In the end, I am more skeptical of MCPS central office than PC.  I do like many aspects of MCPS and generally like my kid's teachers.  I think the problem is more at the top, then in the ranks.  That is why we need PC.
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