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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody is really opposed to getting feedback from low income people.[/quote]

Of course they are. They will find any reason to oppose any method that will actually reach them. They will insist it won't work. They want to be able to get their own voices heard and drown out everybody else's. The best is when they act like they know what boundaries will be best for low income people.[/quote]

Nope. Not all of us. I am umc, live in west county and want to hear from low income people on how the options will impact them and their kids directly. MCPS should use community organizing tools to get this feedback.

What I am opposed to is people who are not low income imagining what low income people want and speaking for them, usually on social media where they can get praised for being a champion.

I am in west county and opposed to long bus rides for my kid. Full stop. Hate long bus rides. Agree that property values are not a factor in all this.

I am however open to different ideas, including somewhat longer busrides IF people who are low income really want something like option 3 and think kids who have been hurt by the status quo
will benefit from a change.

I am not open to something like option 3 if low income people also don’t want it and the only ones in favor of it are other umc white people who want ease their guilt and feel morally superior.[/quote]

Fantastic. I would love to hear how you think MCPS should reach low income people and whether you support them investing time and money into this.[/quote]

DP. I would love to hear how much time, effort and money you think MCPS should invest in trying to reach families who are not responsive. I am personally supportive of some reasonable level of effort, but I think some very progressive saviors would allocate unlimited time and resources with no acknowledgement that time, manpower and funding is, in fact, finite, and that this time, manpower and funding could also be directed to other important needs. [/quote]

Sounds like you blame low income families for not being responsive and don't believe in investing resources to reach them. I disagree with both of those opinions.[/quote]

That is the opposite of what I said and you have made incorrect assumptions and accusations. I didn’t even mention anyone’s income. Your bias assumed that. [/quote]

I said, "I would love to hear how you think MCPS should reach low income people and whether you support them investing time and money into this."

and you responded "I would love to hear how much time, effort and money you think MCPS should invest in trying to reach families who are not responsive"[/quote]

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