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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dr. McKnight is holding three in person community engagement forums following Spring Break. I’m surprised that there’s not an online option but I guess meeting with a few hundred parents will check off a box for community engagement.

I am not understanding how this implies MCPS is putting students first.  Wasn’t that part of her 100 days slogan? How were students put first for this school year?

https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/all-together-now-putting-our-students-first/
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I love that she does this! We're so lucky to have such a great leader![/quote]

What a strange definition of "great leader" you have.

A "great leader" who published the stoplight chart, then by Friday recanted when the schools popped Red, had to put 31 schools remote that weren't even having covid outbreaks because the drivers were sick and she had no Plan B so MCPS had to appeal to the National Guard who told MCPS to pound sand, then changed the reporting metric, then cut out daily reporting altogether March 1st because there was another spike; all the while infecting over 2100+ staff and teachers and 9%+ of the entire student body of MCPS - but now MCPS hides the actual daily numbers so that no one has an accurate count of who got sick on a particular day, making it difficult for the Public to analyze covid trends in time to pull their kids from school?

Or does "great leader" refer to the money management skills with the $160M electric bus fiasco, multi-million covid ESSER fiasco, or renovation bias?  Maybe it's because MCPS hit the top-20 open discrimination cases at the DoE OCR this summer?  Or the way she turned a merit-based Magnet program into a lottery?  I know it was "great leadership" to keep anxious parents waiting outside while their kids were held until the press conference she was late to because of being stuck in traffic?

I guess if you're comparing "great leadership" to Putin and Kim Jong-Il.. maybe?[/quote]

Its not  the national guard's job to drive buses and its shocking one would even ask or demand that.[/quote]
Why is that "shocking"? Other school districts did it.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037307027/massachusetts-calls-national-guard-school-bus-driver-shortage-baker

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/states-call-in-the-national-guard-to-mitigate-school-staffing-shortages

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The national guard should not be driving buses.  Drive your own kids.  Anyone with a car/higher income should be required to provide their own transportation.  Problem solved.[/quote]
Well, clearly, some states disagree with you, including the National Guard there.

I grew up going to school with no school buses. If I have to drive my kids, I'm ok with that.  But, here's the thing,  MCPS decided to put our neighborhood in a cluster where my kids have to be driven instead of being able to walk to their closest school. So, if MCPS wants to get rid of buses and require people to find their own transportation, they need to redraw boundaries such that kids are zoned for their closest school.  And that will mean diversity in some of the schools will tank.  Can't have it both ways.[/quote]

So, drove them.  [/quote]

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