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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it is funding former MCPS employees who came up with this program and need to fund their retirement beach house near Charleston.  MCPS only funds ‘internal training’ except when they are bribed by multinational corporations for a decade to develop curriculum (Pearson).  [/quote]

lol.  I don't have any facts, but this sounds exactly like the type of thing the MCPS Superintendent of Schools staff would do.  If true, this is the type of corruption dragging down the school system.  MCPS needs to stop wasting taxpayer funding - period.  Money is for the teachers and children, not their pockets.[/quote]

Unlesss they can provide a credible citation I wouldn't buy this kind of rumor. There are a few people who post here simply to spread misinformation and cultivate dissent with schools. [/quote]

This is nonsense. I have no attachment to the Leader in Me program and can't speculate on whether it's appropriate for MCPS,[b] but it's basically a kid-sized approach to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a book first published in 1989. [/b]It was adapted by a school in North Carolina. There's no MCPS link here. [/quote]

LOL

Possibly even worse.

Any stats showing how this program improves student outcomes?  Or is it just wishful thinking.

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I mean, they claim it does, and they claim to have studies showing improvement in student outcomes. I don't have time to dig through the research and decide whether I buy what they are selling, but PP's claim that this curriculum has some link to former MCPS employees is just not true. https://www.leaderinme.org/research-highlights-leadership/

Basically, I don't know or even really care about this program because I work on SEL at home with my kids according to our values. But I do care that people come onto this site and level really serious accusations like this, and I think it's worth knocking them down because the impact is a disinformation campaign aimed at [b]undermining parent trust in public education[/b]. [/quote]

A random anonymous post here isn’t going to achieve that.

However, MCPS has been doing enough to undermine parent trust for the past several years.  Any parent paying attention knows that Central Office is a joke and MCPS is a mess - poor leadership, no accountability.

You want to rebuild trust in parents and teachers?  This SEL curriculum ain’t it.  [/quote]

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