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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Food lines stretch out longer and include MCPS graduates with bachelors and masters degrees, stuck with student loans they can’t possibly pay back. [b]Meanwhile corporations here in the county are desperate for the right college graduates and have called MCPS historically “difficult to work with”.[/b] 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.[/quote]

Wait. Corporations are calling MCPS hard to work with, specifically because kids aren't getting the right college degrees, something that happens 4-8 years after students leave MCPS? This makes no sense. Show us the quote. [/quote]

No - not because they aren’t “getting the right degrees”, but because they aren’t *prepared* for the right degrees. The quote is about MCPS previously being “difficult to work with” from a conversation I had at an event.

Specifically, the concern was that MCPS students can graduate elementary school not even knowing basics like “differences between plant and animal cells”. Along with that, future middle school students were not expected to have strong interest in say Biology-based fields by middle school because understanding cells is such a crucial cornerstone. It wouldn’t even make sense to invest in a middle school outreach program unless things like that changed. Fortunately, that *was* changed with CKLA, probably thanks to some amazing advocates as well as Taylor’s leadership (so thank you to the folks that helped with him becoming our current superintendent!).

The gist of that is corroborated both in the 2017 MCPS EPS report and in the Baltimore Sun:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2017/10/11/wanted-workers-with-actual-skills/

It’s behind a paywall, but it states that “career preparation ‘has been marginalized as a priority’” at MCPS. It further went on to essentially predict the outcomes we see today - people being barely able to afford necessities as evidenced by the long lines for food in our county.[/quote]

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