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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][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]

The only thing my kids love more than the kids museum is bocce. We're so fortunate to have these wonderful resources.[/quote]

My kids also learned how to play bocce in PE. They loved it. I hope the school starts a bocce team![/quote]

I think we should all be very proud that MCPS spend $780,000.00 dollars of Federal covid funding on bocce ball.  It really shows that they wisely invest in teaching children how to roll a ball on a lawn, versus educating children or adding special needs slots for kids currently not in the program!  It's so wonderful!  Please re-elect Wolff so she can encourage McKnight to fund more activities like this!  Maybe we can remove magnet programs and AP testing to fund pool tables and bowling?  I'm so happy over the wonderful use of these resources![/quote]
You don't think special needs children should have a chance at being a member of a team?[/quote]

The question is not whether special needs can play bocce ball.  The questions are why it must be bocce ball, why it cost $780,000.00 when a bocce ball set costs $40, why was it funded using Federal ESSER covid funding, why was it labeled for special needs only, and why did MCPS scatter the bocce ball costs in multiple places in their grant application to make the numbers look lower?

I recall Al Capone ran a soup kitchen?[/quote]

A soup kitchen would be more appropriate for covid funds.  Has anyone's kids even played bocce ball in MCPS?

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There was PLENTY of Covid money given out and used to to feed the kids.  That’s why they had this extra Covid money to use for bocce.

The money should have been used for things like better ventilation.  Or even more building services staff.  Or paper towels and soap, seeing how my kids often tell me that the bathrooms are lacking basic supplies.  [/quote]

I'm glad they spent it on something fun like bocce! More handywipes won't do anyone any good.[/quote]

Fun is great!  It would be great if we could take everyone to Disneyworld, I’m sure they’d have lots of fun. However, that’s not the purpose of MCPS, nor was it the purpose of the COVID funds. It should have been used to offset the hardship caused by COVID. Money for PPE/COVID control as PP suggested, money to provide supplemental academic supports, money to improve the virtual learning experience, money to secure additional substitute teachers and substitute bus drivers would all have made sense. Bocce ball and Kid museum donations with an uncertain benefit to MCPS does not make sense.  I resent that MCPS prioritized somebody’s idea of fun over something that would have a tangible benefit in time of crisis. I also deeply resent that MCPS used COVID funds for things that had nothing to do with COVID. If they honestly couldn’t find a COVID related use for these designated funds, then they should have returned them. This was not Santa bringing fun to MCPS, this was our government trying to mitigate the devastation caused by a global pandemic, and spreading itself thin in the process. [/quote]

Yes, learning about their cultural heritage is also a big part of education and bocce seems like as good a place as any.[/quote]

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