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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do any of you care? Serious question. Yall are on this thread continuously crashing out over something yall claim have zero merit, going as far as saying parents are pocketing donations. How about just not caring and living your own lives?

I don’t have a dog in the fight but I can see why some parents are upset, and they have every right to file a lawsuit. Good for them!

Just let this play out. Dont know why yall are so bothered all the time. [/quote]

I think many of us are bothered that these people keep crying about mismanagement of money and then do crap like this that forces MCPS to further waste money. What's worse is that they KNOW this is a loser of a case and just intend to drag it out and force the county to spend more. It makes them look terribly selfish and furthers the belief that they don't give a rat's ass about any kids except their own who, not for nothing, aren't actually being harmed.  [/quote]

MCPS attorneys are paid yearly salary, how does this waste taxpayers money? These attorneys are paid regardless [/quote]

MCPS attorneys are not the ones who usually take these cases. MCPS contracts with expensive litigators for this rubbish. The lawyers employed by MCPS are mostly for matters pertaining to personnel issues and frequently, low level, internal special education issues. Notably, the MCPS legal team was also used during the last year to ensure that they were following boundary study process according to the law. Therefore, these parents are forcing MCPS to waste money hiring outside counsel to prove that their internal lawyers did their work in accordance with the law. This is why people hate Wootton right now. Stop crying financial mismanagement when you are compounding it. [/quote]

If it’s meritless why hire an outside firm? [/quote]

They have to. Otherwise it is the same attorneys who did the work defending their own work. [/quote]

Why is this a problem? There’s no actually law preventing them from defending their own work. You’d think if it was good work, they’d want to defend it? [/quote]

Are you suggesting that it's easy for an entity that is 'in the right' to win a lawsuit without adequate representation?  If you were sued and knew yourself to be in the right, would serve as your own counsel?  [/quote]

O so your saying MCPS attorneys aren’t considered adequate representation? Cuz they are idiots? In which case, we agree on something! [/quote]

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