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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly did Dr. Taylor accomplish with this meeting? As he stated, he can’t undo the decision so why was this a priority?[/quote]

He learned he can undo the decision.[/quote]

There's no money, and even more, there's no time to "undo" the closure. School assignments for teachers have been updated. Some teachers have resigned.  Attempting to reopen MVA at this point would leave a large number of students in schools and MVA without teachers.

I don't understand what the MVA families expect at this point. They lost the battle to keep MVA in place. They'd be better off refocusing on lobbying the state to create a virtual program rather than complaining about a decision that can't be undone.[/quote]

The battle will continue until its reopened.  If they don't do it for this year, there is always next year.[/quote]

MCPS isn't going to bring back MVA when it is obvious the better long-term solution is a state program.[/quote]

The state isn't offering a solution although most states don't provide their own program and they outsource it to K-12.  Clearly you haven't looked into it.  Its actually cheaper to do it inhouse.[/quote]

The county isn't offering synchronous online school, either.

If it's really cheaper to insource it, then the state could do that. But you don't know what contracted rates the states pay, just what they charge individuals.[/quote]

It’s not the state who provides education, the county does.  The state provides over site.  What is your obsession with the state providing it?   The county woukd have to pay the state if that happened like in VA.  Mcps would not get it for free.  [/quote]

There aren't even enough students in Montgomery County to make MVA scale effectively (e.g., the 10-person classrooms in some grades). How could smaller counties ever do virtual without being grouped with kids from the larger counties?

A state-based program makes much more sense for a niche program like virtual learning for kids.[/quote]

It could scale effectively. There was a waitlist for the MVA last year.

The people who cite the data saying that the program lost more than 67% of its participants overall and lost more than 40% of its participants 2 years in a row are just mean. [/quote]

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