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[quote=Anonymous]21:20 here again, responding to 00:04 and 10:21

I appreciate your points, but I think they are misdirected a bit.

I guess I like having a bulldog organization like PC.  I am not really focused on whether they are biased or whether they are nice or whether they post opposing views on their site.    Frankly, the opposing views get more than enough weight in MCPS private and public discussions, so I don't know why they need space on the PC blog.  It is a blog.  Others can write their own blogs.

I am confused about your transparency question.  They seem to post factual documents on their blog and they post their names.   What other information is needed?  Are you wondering if they are funded by other outside groups.  I don't really see lots of Karl Rove type adds, so I am guessing they don't have a lot of money from the outside.   MCPS takes public money, so I am more concerned about MCPS transparency.

What I like is that they raise very good issues that no one else is raising.  I am appalled that Weast went on a Pearson junket to Africa and then came back and reduced the amount Pearson pays MCPS.  I am appalled at the whole Pearson situation in general.  I am appalled at all the open meeting violations, I am appalled at cell towers on school property, I am appalled at the covering up of available funds to the County Council, I am appalled at the gutting of GT programs in middle school and the lack of challenge at the ES level.  You would never hear about some of this stuff it it wasn't for the PC.  You don't hear about this stuff in the Gazette or Post all that much.  We need a watchdog.  No one else is stepping up like this.

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