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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So does BOE actually care about public sentiment?  Bc it seems from DCUM that they vociferously oppose public and want to do the exact opposit[/quote]

I’m sure it’s tricky.  I remember seeing a slide about responses to the boundary study, and I noted that a much larger share of responses had come from W clusters.  The DCC was much less represented.  While I am sure the BOE is interested in feedback, I’m sure they note that not all perspectives are equally represented.[/quote]

Not all perspectives are equally represented because MCPS continually fails to understand engagement with the community.  Just talking to you determined partners with no real plan or time for said partners to share out information and details is unhelpful.  The communities are not the same.  Several communities are very diverse.  Which means understanding they did not all attend MCPS public schools as kids.  They might not have attend public school at all and potentially not attend K-12 in the U.S. so their understanding of expectation of how all this develops in a learning process.  And we’ve already discussed how MCPS has muddled discussion of the Program Study with the Boundary Study. [/quote]

But also some schools are impacted negatively and so those schools are going to respond more.[/quote]

No one can say at this point what schools are impacted negatively or positively because there is not enough information.  People assume their school is impacted negatively because of fear mongering and some people being afraid of change.  This isn’t helped when MCPS does not provide clear communication and transparency of what’s going on.

At this point MCPS should clearly recognize that they need to EARN trust from the community.  Does that mean they will have more work? YES.  Are people still going to complain? YES.  But at least you will be working towards community support and engagement.  The Boundary study team seems to get this. Kechia Addison seems to get this when she comes to the Board prepared with data and a notebook to take notes on the feedback and then implement it. Heck, Taylor even seemed to get it when presenting the proposed budget?  Why are others in CO not similarly on the same page.[/quote]

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