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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am more amused by your thought that parents have any input or say in anything mcps does.  Sure, mcps meets with the community, they might even listen to the community.  Then they do whatever it was they were planning to do anyway.  When mcps meets with community members, for any reason, it is 100% to "check the box" so their spokesperson can say they met with the community and has zero meaningful results.[/quote]

People often think that "have input into" means "do what I want," but it doesn't. Yes, parents have input. No, MCPS doesn't necessarily do what this parent or that parent or the other parent wants. Or even this or that group of parents.[/quote]

BOE simply doesn't care about even majority of opinion in  things like naming school. In RM#5 naming survey, majority favoured 2 names and BOE picked a name which was lobbied for political purpose. Why even ask for opinion and then get the opinion that majority want either name A or name B and then ignore the oinion?

It's dog and pony show.[/quote]

One group of people wanted one name, another group of people wanted a different name, the BoE decided. That's how the process works. The fact that they didn't choose the name you wanted, doesn't mean they don't care what anybody thinks. It just means that they didn't choose the name you wanted.

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The people who wanted the other name did not live in the community. The community came up with a list of multiple names, including honoring an African American school teacher from Rockville (whose name was also turned down in the Matsunaga school naming). The BoE decided that anyone who didn't want Bayard Rustin as the name was homophobic. It was not one of the top 5 names selected by the naming committee.[/quote]

I understand that. Nonetheless, it's Montgomery County Public Schools, and it's the Montgomery County Board of Education. The process is not: parents whose children will attend the school when it opens get to decide on the name by majority vote. The process is: the Board of Education decides.

And for what it's worth, they didn't choose the name I wanted, either. [/quote]

Sure, but the parents group gets created and facilitated by MCPS. What is the purpose of bringing in the parents to hold meetings as an official part of the naming process only to ignore their feedback, not just as the top choice, but top 5? Why waste people's time like that? It would be better to say "schools are for the whole county and so the Bose will make a decision based on countywide feedback." Everyone's time is limited. The people who were selected to be on the naming committee by MCPS gave up their time for the meetings and also time in soliciting feedback from the entire community as was asked of them by MCPS. I can see the BoE saying we are not going with your number 1 choice, we are going to pick #3 instead. But the way they did it not only completely cut parents out but 2 board members actually ridiculed the committee for their top 2 choices.[/quote]

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