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[quote=Anonymous]Below is shared by a parent who attended the event:
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Dear friends,

Here is what I want to share with you.

My observation in MCPS-parents meeting tonight.
1. Mr. Jae Lee was the moderator of the meeting. He is co-chair of APASAAG and he is also an MCPS staff.
2. Ms. Jeannie Franklin was the representative and speaker for the session of "selection of CES or Magnet Program". Again Mr. Jae Lee was the moderator.
3. Ms. Franklin spent the majority time talking about the slides, about which we are quite familiar with. There are two slides about the selection criteria, one for CES and the other for Magnet Program. Again, these two slides were shown to us several times before tonight's meeting, but did not answer our concerns or  questions.
4. There were only at most 8 minutes of time left for question and answer. One staff distribute a card to each parent, and ask us to write feedback or comments on cards, and he collected these cards. Then Mr. Jae Lee somehow selected some questions from them and ask Ms. Franklin to answer.
5. Ms. Franklin has time to answer 4 questions, and none of these questions doubt the selection criteria or selection process at all. My friends and I asked some more sharp questions and I submitted my card quite early but our questions were not selected.
6. I saw scores of cards on the table, with many questions unanswered.

My thoughts to share with you. Hopefully you can share better ideas.
1. We can write to MCPS, saying that in the meeting on 11/28/2018, "There was no enough time for question and answer. MCPS should not hand-pick questions to answer. It is more fair that the parents line up and ask question one by one."
2. We can ask MCPS to arrange another meeting to address more concerns more thoroughly.
3. We can ask MCPS to collect all the questions and publish answer to these questions in MCPS website. We (AFEF and or other organization) can collect these questions for MCPS.

If MCPS and parents do not communicate in an effective way, it is a waste of time and energy to have such a meeting.

Thanks.[/quote]

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