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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He has a lot of problems to fix. Hard to blame him for that. MCPS behaved recklessly when MD had a budget surplus. The $$$$ spent on legal fees are not his fault. I’m still not sure what I think of him but he can only do so much [/quote]

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I think the programs proposal is an ambitious move that could have moved the needle to fixing some things, but has been so poorly thought through and so rushed that he’ll ruin what goodwill he could have had if it’s implemented. He strikes me as a sincere and good person though.[/quote]

He's not sincere.  He's a showman which is why he was hired.  He's changing things for the sake of change, not to make them better.[/quote]

Yeah, there's some misdirection going on, too, pulling people's attention with promises of paraeducators while actually gutting special education programs across the district. It is pretty hard for school districts to lose due process proceedings, but I think he's setting things up for that.[/quote]

Its near impossible to get any help from MCPS and they spend more time fighting parents than helping.[/quote]

In many cases, those parents want things that contradict what the political masters of MCPS want.[/quote]

Most parents want their kids reading and writing on grade level.  [/quote]

Not here in Lake Wobegon. :roll:

Seriously, though, and understanding the considerable difficulties experienced (kids, families & teachers/admin) in educating a large portion of the MCPS student population to that standard, when "on grade level" is redefined/implemented as below that which many, if not most, would expect from the combination of their own experience and the anecdotes of others they know in good schools, and when the differentiation (and identification for that) needed to mitigate that is implemented inconsistently (sometimes not at all due to school funding allocation algorithms vs. difficult cohorts), this kind of conflict becomes inevitable.[/quote]

But then why do parents keep blaming school systems instead of counties, states, and our federal governments.  Not to mention ourselves.  On one had we say we want our kids to have the best of everything especially schools, but then in the next we want to cut taxes.  When people say fine, then that means we also need to cut programs and services like sports, arts, and yes extra supports, then there are still complaints.

Even now we have a community in MCPS complaining about getting a new school.[/quote]

Mcps cut a bunch of things a few years ago and then proceeded to go on huge spending sprees.  Some of our schools are pretty bare bones.  Not much to cut. [/quote]

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