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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It will be interesting to see how MCPS writes the RFP[/b]-and whether they try to tailor it to favor Discovery Ed (although presumably Discovery Ed already has a lot of inside information about what MCPS wants due to all the ex-MCPS employees there.)  hopefully McPS learned from the bad press from the Erick Lang incident and will choose more wisely this time around.[/quote]

Yes, it will. But it hasn't come out yet. I, personally, am going to wait until the RFP actually comes out, and we can actually read it, before concluding that it's terrible and will only lead to certain further doom.[/quote]

And by DCUM logic that means you either work for Discovery Ed or are one of the MCPS administrators beholden to them.[/quote]

I don’t get why some people still have this attitude. MCPS has so thoroughly screwed up (curriculum problems, overuse of chromebooks, overcrowding, bungled implementation of the new magnet selection process) that it seems fully reasonable to be skeptical of its ability to actually implement a process competently.[/quote]

Some people still have this attitude because we like to wait for the facts before making a judgment.[/quote]

And others of us are skeptical because all the facts thus far have suggested MCPS has no intention of making this process transparent or in the best interests of students. Let's review the facts:

- Upon adopting Common Core, MCPS--unlike the vast majority of other school systems--decided to write its own curriculum, rather than adopting externally produced, proven curricula. One of the primary reasons for doing so was the idea that MCPS could sell its curriculum (this was a stated goal). As we all know, MCPS's curriculum was deemed inadequate by an external audit (though, of course, parents and teachers knew it was inadequate long before the audit was done).

- MCPS issued an RFP for a new curriculum, all the while its head of Curriculum had an enormous conflict of interest with one of the bidders. When that came to light, the process was delayed a year, leaving everyone with another year of dealing with a bad curriculum

And that's just the curriculum review-based problems. I'm not even touching on MCPS's problems holding its employees accountable for inappropriate behavior, its inability to utilize technology properly, its inability or unwillingness to address overcrowding in an effective manner, etc.

If you're not skeptical about this process by this point, then you're like Charlie Brown with the football. [/quote]

There is a difference between being skeptical, which might be justified, and already concluding that the new process and new curriculum will be doomed, which is not - at least at this point.[/quote]

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