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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a thread on this a few months ago. I have had 4 kids go through MCPS and my youngest is now in MS. How many field trips did your MCPS kid do pre-covid? How many post-covid? There has been a huge reduction in field trips over the years. Teachers don't want to organize. Principals don't consider them part of the curriculum. Now Covid is STILL a reason. All sorts of excuses. MCPS will barely use this museum. Must be someone on the board or leadership of the museum who knows someone in MCPS Central Office to advocate for this. I'd like to know who.[/quote]

It’s one of the BOE members’ wives who founded it and runs it and the former superintendent (starr’s wife) is director of communications.  We need an inspector general now![/quote]

Absolutely.  MCPS desperately needs more oversight.  It’s an incredibly corrupt system that wastes an incredible amount of taxpayer money.  [/quote]

I get that you like saying these things over and over but without any tangible proof, it's kind of meaningless. [/quote]

Every couple days the same poster goes on a tired about the BOE and McKnight and spending. For example, they started the 10-page thread about a recruiting trip to an HBCU and I can't even remember the one after that because I stopped reading their nonsense.[/quote]
By corruption, they mean they disagree with their spending priorities but hope by using a pejorative term to insinuate something nefarious which is apparently not the case. [/quote]

Why is funding a private business a spending priority of a public school system?  Shouldn't public school funding go to fund actual public schools?  [/quote]

They're paying them for services rendered, not investing capital. Kid Museum provides educational events for the MCPS kids.

Also Kid Museum is a non-profit.[/quote]

Can you explain how MCPS students have directly benefitted from the $2.5 million dollars that the Kid Museum has received?[/quote]

Sure, what value do you place on STEM education? Compute it that way.[/quote]

Of course.  We understand.  You value STEM enrichment for the wealthy kids at schools who can afford the prices at the Kid Museum and have parents who are willing to organize these trips.

You are not concerned about the rest of our kids at all.

If you truly valued education, you would advocate that MCPS uses the $2.5 million to go towards smaller class sizes or directly towards improving elementary science education in our school district.[/quote]

I prefer they spend on things like the KIDS museum instead of forcing it down the throats of so many who could care less. This way people who are genuinely interested can get the most out of it and those who prefer to spend their time on things like travel soccer or whatever can pursue that.[/quote]

Its fine to give the money if it benefits students in MCPS.  But, I know I tried to set up a virtual one hour field trip and was declined due to lack of funding for our PTA/school.  They should be offering "free" field trips.[/quote]

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