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[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]

I think it's fine for a countywide petition to be really simple and mirror the MCCPTA language.  But I do think it would be best for someone outside the DCC to start it, who has connections to non-DCC PTAs, listservs, Facebook groups, etc where they can share it.[/quote]

This regional model impacts the DCC the most.  The DCC schools are not getting more funding, and with the reduction in students, serious cuts will have to be made. These schools are already lacking in course offerings, so what can be cut?  To place "magnets" at Northwood or Einstein for the arts makes no sense when there is no additional funding for staff. They cannot offer magnet-level music or theater without additional teaching staff and funding.  How is all of this going to work?

It doesn't matter who does the petition.  Reality is none of the matters as Taylor, central office and the BOE are going through with this model regardless of community feedback.  There will be a lot of flight from the DCC schools (including us), and that will leave these schools in even worse shape if the wealthier, smarter students/families leave. There is very little at our home school and when that is reduced, it puts families in an impossible situation when their kids needs don't get met.[/quote]

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