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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are upset then get in touch with Taylor and the BOE. This is not a surprise to me. There have been other threads throughout this year that that have said ELC will be gone because central office is replacing it with the CKLA base plus enrichment during WIN time. CKLA has been much better than Benchmark for my kids, and our school does a good job actually offering enrichment in WIN time. But if yours doesn’t, then advocate for changes that meet the needs of your kids. Without a strong push among many parents, MCPS will not change this. [/quote]

A 30min WIN time vs a whole language arts block are not the same thing.  Particularly given that class sizes are not decreasing.[/quote]

Then organize parents for that change. Complaining kn here will not change anything, guaranteed. [/quote]

Can you stop posting here telling people to stop posting here?[/quote]

People are welcome to post here. It will not make a difference if it is not accompanied by advocacy. And LOTS of advocacy, by parents across the county, not just in wealthy clusters.[/quote]

Well some of us are posting here because we need help figuring out how to do the advocacy!

We need help understanding exactly who is making these decisions and why, so we can understand what steps to take next.  And we need help figuring out how we can coordinate with other parents to make changes rather than acting individually... is the PTA gifted committee a good way to do that, or do we need something else?[/quote]

See above. You want to email and call Taylor and the leadership in the Office of Curriculum and Instructional Programming. Testify before BoE meetings. Attend and speak up in the budget process. Most important, get other parents across the county to do the same. [/quote]

+100. Starting advocacy for this or anything else can start real close to your home, like with your own school.  Reach out to your PTA to make it an agenda item for discussion at the next meeting.  Don’t have a PTA, send an email to your school principal and Reading Specialist asking for a meeting to speak with all 3rd-5th grade parents about literacy for the current and upcoming year. Then have them send the meeting invite via Class Reminds.

If Moms for Liberty can become a nationally known organization, certainly folks in MoCo can figure out how to organize around this.[/quote]

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