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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So … every time a poster does not use quote feature or disagrees and/or provides evidence that they have been sharing false information on this platform, someone on here just claims that they are a “staffer” and dismisses what is stated instead of engaging in dialogue?

Then, the response to all of that is a “song” reiterating information we all now know to be false with someone offering coffee? That is not productive conversation.

Looks like if these folks were on the design team, MCPS would never be able to have any dialogue. If folks on the design team felt that they were silenced, why not share what you were trying to convey here?[/quote]

DP. That poster unable to use the quote function does sound like s/he could be ONE individual from Central Office. I thought that was a reasonable guess.

This response - attacking volunteers from the design team and not itself being substantive sounds just like an MCPS employee. Or at least a friend of MCPS. Maybe even paid by MCPS.

I personally liked the song. Creative, captured the essence of what many in the community (outside of MCPS Central Office and BOE) are feeling, grieving that MCPS/BOE is so tone deaf to the essence of it, stuck in its bubble. MCPS and BOE are now only defensive, not engaging or listening for understanding, but to warp feedback to fit their narrative. Could the song be AI generated? Maybe. Could it be someone with a creative bent? Sure.

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Hard pass on MCPS being “tone-deaf”. Many in the community wanted it implemented in 2026 school year for more students to have access. MCPS has already showed flexibility by phasing out the current program and allowing anyone already in a program to continue even though it could financially threaten the new rollout of programs. They showed even further flexibility by allowing current eighth graders to continue at the expense of other students being denied opportunities.

Certain groups have benefited from the programs as they are, so all they are asking for is delay with no mention of empathy for others’ grief as they keep waiting (since at least 2016 or possibly even longer than that - from when Taylor himself attended MCPS).

Food lines stretch out longer and include MCPS graduates with bachelors and masters degrees, stuck with student loans they can’t possibly pay back. Meanwhile corporations here in the county are desperate for the right college graduates and have called MCPS historically “difficult to work with”. Our community needs these changes even if they are not a picture perfect rollout that improves the lives of those who’ve always benefitted. The point is *expanding access*, and not necessarily putting the already fortunate at an even greater advantage.

For me, this version of ‘advocacy’ comes across as bellicose and insidious (and possibly even cruel) - like no amount of flexibility from MCPS will *ever* be enough. More students having access appears to be none of your concern because there isn’t even an attempt to find alternate resources for these students because for the vast majority of the complainers it’s literally “just a delay”. They can’t see or feel the pain they are forcing on others.[/quote]

What do student loans have to with MCPS?   That is a student and parents choice.  [/quote]

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