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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wether or not you agree with the change, the way this has been handled has been awful.   MCPS promised immersion parents that any changes would be tranparent, that their input would be sought, and that there would be plenty of notice.  NONE of this has happened.  Instead, it was snuck in in June and will be voted on in September.  Not a single immersion parent was invited to give input to the policy committee.  The PTAs that supposedly represent all parents, particularly the Westland PTA, was 100% silent on the issue and immersion parents had to find out about it from the RCF PTA.  And when parents went to testify before the Board -- something that is their right -- they were chastized by one board member for doing so.

All in all, an awful display.[/quote]

It's not just an awful display in the case of how MCPS treats immersion parents.  The BCC Cluster of PTAs Reps took up a position to support this without any feedback from the community as a whole.  I am not an immersion parent, but I am a BCC Cluster parent, and I do not support this.  There are other problems with this COSA change which affect the rights of BCC Cluster kids who attend the middle school magnets and may want to apply for programs at Blair (like CAP) but will not be able to do so if this passes.  Plus there are likely elementary COSA rights that are affected in BCC Cluster.  Because the BCC Cluster of PTAs reps chose to support this without first getting feedback from the wider community, they took a position on a regulation change without even understanding what the full impact would be.  They have provided no data to the parent community to help make decisions about whether this is an appropriate policy.  It was just announced as a fait accompli (that the BCC Cluster would support it.)  Shamefully poor, undemocratic work. [/quote]

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