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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]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]

800 students is plenty. 
MCPS has a number of programs with less thsn that.[/quote]

Nots with their own standalone administration, and not for kids with no identified special needs.

Running an entire separate administrative and educational apparatus for 800 kids is a terrible use of money. It makes much more sense to scale that up to the state level.[/quote]

Majority have special needs[/quote]

The data shows that the rate of kids with IEPs/504s is pretty close (if not lower at some levels) than the broader MCPS population. We need to be having an evidence-based conversation here, not just throwing out claims with no backing.

However, even if the numbers are slightly higher now than they were early in the program, it still does not make virtual learning necessarily the correct intervention for every disability/learning differences. If MVA parents want to make the case that virtual learning is the only accommodation that works for their child's disability, they need to make that case after trying their public schools, and after trying the myriad other programs that MCPS has to offer, just like the rest of us whose kids have disabilities.

If after ALL of that, there are still kids who cannot be served in any of the programs MCPS offers, then I'd be happy for MCPS to pay for them to access an online program just as I'm happy for MCPS to cover private placements. But there needs to be a process, not just which families feel like having tiny classes with individualized attention, at the expense of the broader community. [/quote]

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