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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]No one knows anything. I would love for the person who keeps insulting people to provide a link on the MCPS website that "clearly" explains what they are doing this year. MCPS is just an embarrassing organization.[/quote]

Not that PP, but the MCPS website does clearly state that information is coming, possibly as soon as this week. Not having released it YET is not actually the same as never releasing it. [/quote]
The school year has already started. Central Office doesn’t have summer off. Yet they have not posted any information yet aside from a crafty person seeing that they have included CogAT testing in the calendar. So the question is are they intentionally withholding this information? [b]Are they so incompetent that they are still trying to figure out what they are doing? Or are they taking so long because they need to run numbers to figure out how to design a process to maximize the outcome they want to achieve?
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Without transparency from MCPS, what we are left with is guess either incompetence or malevolence. [/quote]

While I agree it would be nice to have more information, I think there are a lot of other possibilities for not sharing everything yet besides incompetence and running numbers, consider...
-There are multiple offices and stakeholders to consult with and incorporate feedback from
-There is a new acting Superintendent who hasn't approved things yet
-They had a plan and when Delta hit they realized it may not be feasible, so are adjusting before sharing instead of sharing something they know will have to change
-They worked all summer on things like summer school, updated Covid protocols, and addressing learning loss
-They want to be sure the plan addresses the large number of students that are in or might be in quarantine on a test day
-Parent reaction to the test scores from last year shared at the board meeting caused them to reconsider 
-The required assessment timeline for 2021-2022 hasn't been released yet (that I can find- website still has 2020-2021)

It's POSSIBLE they are actually being proactive and working to get it right the first time, it's also possible they don't know, but I'm inclined to wait a bit before passing judgement and see if they share more soon.  I see they have updated information about the programs and options for current 8th graders and say the application comes out next week.  What are you going to do right now with more information anyway?

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Let me take a wild guess...you happily work for mcps.[/quote]

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