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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone just make a countywide petition already calling to push back the program analysis a year and gather more community feedback on it, so we can stop arguing about why a petition written to maximize the number of DCC signers doesn't talk much about and resonate with people elsewhere in the county?[/quote]

Nobody is stopping you from doing this except you.[/quote]

I do not have the time to invest in making and promoting a countywide petition when I and everyone I know is in the DCC area and this current petition works fine for us so a new one would feel redundant to most people in my personal networks.  (I also don't have a detailed enough understanding of the specific ways schools in other parts of the county will be harmed by rushing the current plans through, just the more general reasons that affect all of us-- although maybe it's fine for the countywide petition to just be very simple and general regarding the need to slow down and get community input before finalizing anything, maybe copying some of the language from the MCCPTA resolution?)

I can see that a countywide one is needed, and will help spread the word if one is created, but I'm not the one to write it and advance it.  (But all these people who keep saying "I support pausing the program analysis but don't want to sign this petition because it's too DCC-focused" seem like the perfect people to do it?)[/quote]

You have time to post here, so if the petition is important to you, you'll advertise it and get support.  I didn't sign it nor did anyone I know, as the wording made no sense, and it didn't represent everyone, just a select few.  Separating the boundary study and programs, yes, but some of the other stuff, no.

I don't think the program analysis needs to be paused, and changes do need to be made, but the regional model fails many and creates more obstacles than it helps.[/quote]

So you think they should go ahead with the regional program changes rather than pause them, even though you think it creates more obstacles than it helps?
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I think they need to dump the regional plan as it looks now and re-examine everything with community input.  See what families want in their schools.  Do the IB schools want IB?  Want more STEM?  What are the kids' interests?  What are the community's interests?  For schools that don't have a strong STEM program, for example, how can we serve those kids to get their needs and wants met?  Clustering schools together is fine.  It's not fine when you expect families to go across town, driving their own kids multiple times a day for stem.  And, you limit the number of students who can go.[/quote]

+1 it's really bad they didn't do this analysis at all. Just a deceptive analysis of "programs".  [/quote]

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