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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if Brenda Wolff, Karla Silvestre, and Grace Rivera-Oven will run for reelection.[/quote]

I hope not.  They all need to go, especially Brenda and Karla.  Karla should not be working at MC as an MCPS liaison as it’s a huge conflict of interest and probably why they push kids to Mc vs having classes at the schools. [/quote]

How is that even ethically possible for Karla Silvestre?  I get that a salary of 25k as an McPs board member isn’t enough to make a living but that is a massive conflict of interest. [/quote]

That 25k is something when saving up for college for your kids. Buying another car. Grooming, hair and nails care and so on. It really is a show, ask a question or two but no followup. Should be a full time job and pay but that's not going to happen.[/quote]

Theyve run MCPS into the ground, how much do you think they should be paid?  The salary is set by the state.[/quote]

It's a chicken and egg situation.  If it paid like a real full-time job, you'd get way more good candidates running, and they'd treat it like a real job and give it their full-time attention and focus.

Long overdue that we lobby the state to change the salaries, and lobby our local electeds to call for it as well (practically speaking, this will likely be a key factor.)[/quote]

I think this would help.  I've seen a few MCPS Board meetings online, and was not impressed with the caliber of questions coming from Board members.   If they're practically volunteer Board members, that explains why they don't sound particularly informed or engaged.[/quote]

Most of them don't have actual experience in business, education, etc. and really have no clue what goes on day to day.[/quote]

What are you talking about.  Two of them are/have been attorneys, one a principal, one a teacher, and one runs a non-profit, and one works at MC.   They may not know what goes on day to day inside every school or classroom but they certainly aren’t oblivious on the whole or incompetent.

[b[What frustrates me is how unprepared most folks from MCPS appear when coming to address the Board.[/b]  Their lack of information and followup is ridiculous.  Frankly, they need to spend more time in the old business section so they can make visible any follow-ups and additional Q/A for the public.  Instead it’s just regulated to this site:
 
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/meetings/memorandum/
[/quote]

You're right about the lack of info/follow-up and the need to spend a good deal of the start of live meetings going over old business so that the info requests don't get lost/aren't just accepted without deeper questioning.

That "unprepared" appearance though, is often deliberate.  I've seen meetings where a question is asked, but the mid-level admin presenting [i]has[/i] to feign ignorance (knowing this from having spoken with them before/knowing that they had the information) so as not to disrupt the theme being delivered by the higher-level executive sitting next to them.  I've also seen such an executive interrupt to redirect away from a truthful response and, worse, speak up in place of the admin, supplying a more direct lie (again knowing they had the proper info from conversations with them).

Note -- These are in relation to more general issues, not a specific student case in which I have a disproportionate stake.

It's not everyone at MCPS, but there are at least two high execs whose promotions happened early under Taylor for whom this was the case in thier previous executive roles.[/quote]

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