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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well we will all find out today the future of MVA. The sense I got from the board on Tuesday was they heard the testimonies, but they have a difficult budget this year and have to make tough decisions. I suspect this program will be cut. It is just not effective enough to maintain. Giving kids who are bullied the option to learn from home is not serving them...it is robbing them of a real education. I am shocked parents go along with it.
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MVA gives them real education. Just like many colleges offer online degrees.[/quote]

Yup, and those degrees are pretty worthless.[/quote]

Apparently in person degrees aren’t better with the level of incompetence from many posters on this board who can’t articulate a proper response to a argument. Many if you act like your children. Immature and defiant.  [/quote]

There's been a very clear argument against VA from the start. It costs the district an extra $4.3 million, where the students have worse educational outcomes and attendance than in-person school.

You keep trying to tell people to ignore the available data, but you don't have any of your own that tells a different story.[/quote]

My goodness. Still hanging on to that one thread aren’t you? Has it not been indicated many times that data is not current and the program has changed so in order to have an actual relevant debate all data needs to be provided. Otherwise, you are all clearly just demonstrating your bias.[/quote]

Where's your data then? This should be a data driven decision. And yes, there's always going to be some lag with the data, due to the time to collect and process it. That's not a reason to ignore data in the decisionmaking process.[/quote]

Well, unlike some of you, I actually like to have a full picture before coming to a final judgment.  until that final picture of data is available then everything you are saying is a moot point[/quote]

Then we shouldn't keep throwing money at it until they can get your "full picture." As long as VA keeps running, there is always going to be some lag between data availability and decisionmaking. We can use the next three years to study VA outcomes and consider bringing it back if the "full picture" indicates there was value.[/quote]

Ok let's look at all the programs in MCPS then and quit funding the ones where children are struggling.  GREAT IDEA [/quote]

We need to do a full audit line by line of every penny MCPS spends and cut out the waste.  Simple.  The MVA is not wasteful and lots of kids on the waitlist who want in and cannot get in.

And, why don't we shut down the bottom 20% of the in-person schools as well.  Quite a few have very low test scores.  What is that ok?

Or, maybe we should invest more money into these struggling schools and provide them the staff and resources to help the struggling kids.[/quote]

Thank you! Finally a voice of reason.  Every child deserves the same access to an education, not matter what it looks like.  Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.  But it's unethical to slam the door in their face and not try to see how to help support everyone the best they can.  [/quote]

It makes no sense people are obsessed with shutting down a program that has no impact on them or their kids.[/quote]

That’s where you’re wrong- it would impact other kids because MCPS would have to make cuts elsewhere to fund it.[/quote]

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