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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shouldn't it be a conflict of interest for Karla Silvestre to be evangelizing and pushing dual enrollment during board meetings as she did during the program analysis Q&A, given her role with Montgomery College?[/quote]

You are on to something[/quote]

There is that. But I think that Silvestre is just trying to come up with some way to reintroduce rigor that the superintendent is removing from the system.

I don't believe that MC has the capacity to take on so many students at once. And, it's depressing to hear people suggest remote learning as a solution. [/quote]

Silvestre is blissfully continuing to support the have/have-not dichotomy of in-person classes vs. MC classes (or remote), with all the burden those bring.  [b]It helps keep her MC job more relevant[/b], and most are too oblivious to identify the discriminatory disparity in the cheerfully promoted "opportunity to take college courses" messaging.[/quote]

Yup. Which was precisely why my antenna went off when she had the nerve to literally evangelize it on the board, knowing full well she is an employee of Montgomery College, which has been using the public K-12 funds to plug holes in enrollment.

It would be the equivalent of a board member who worked for the College Board boasting and promoting AP over IB or Dual Enrollment during a board meeting. It definitely seems like a conflict of interest and if we had a functional board that operated under a code of ethics, Karla would get her hand slapped for this.[/quote]

The conflict of interest here with MC is sickening. I work in higher education and you’re correct that MC is not equipped to take on high school students. As PP said, those classes are designed for a specific population of students. I agree this entire situation reeks of corruption. Someone is giving Taylor the runway for this project.

I’m going to be voting any incumbents off that board that I can, they need to develop a backbone. Seriously, what is going on people?[/quote]

It’s gonna be too late to reverse the track after the re-election, isn’t it?[/quote]

Yup[/quote]

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