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Agree with this PP.

MCPS is just TOO big to effectively handle something like Covid.  Smaller districts can be more nimble and solve the issues as they come up.  MCPS is just paralyzed with inaction.    [/quote]

I have never understood the idea that big school districts can't decide to do things.

It may be more difficult to adjust 200+ schools than 10 schools, yes, I get that. It may be more difficult to train thousands of teachers than hundreds. But the idea that MCPS's size leads to inaction? That makes no sense.[/quote]

It's the MCPS culture, that's why. Slow-moving, never innovative, always a follower not a leader.

Meanwhile, let's look at Miami-Dade schools, which is a large district as well. How did they prepare at the start of this year?

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In Miami, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said he [b]started planning for this in January[/b] when he first heard about the coronavirus crisis in China. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools had already invested in digital technology, and the district began creating an online curriculum, working with the FBI and the Secret Service on digital security.

As the crisis arrived in the United States, Carvalho negotiated an agreement with the teachers’ union for remote learning weeks before the schools closed. The district surveyed families to find out who needed computers and distributed 60,000 devices. A plan to feed all 350,000 students was put in place.

“If we are going to persist, let’s do it right,” Carvalho said. “Let’s do it big.”

To be sure, there are complaints. But [b]instruction across the district began two days after schools went dark.[/b]
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/plunging-into-remote-learning-families-find-stress-chaos-and-some-surprising-wins/2020/03/27/36429de4-6f90-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html

Compare that to the pitiful MCPS response and excuses that they could not have foreseen this. How did Miami-Dade see it but MCPS did not? Poor leadership.

Now let's look a this coming fall. Miami-Dade will have 4 options available to parents, ranging from 100% DL to 100% full-time in school:
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/education-on-6/miami-dade-to-vote-on-districts-school-reopening-plan/2256586/

Their Board of Ed passed the plan a few days ago, and they're hard at work on implementing it -- setting up plexiglas dividers and so on. What is MCPS doing? Twiddling their thumbs while there are 8 weeks until school starts.

It's infuriating, because it's a lack of leadership at MCPS that is giving us this poor result. Miami-Dade is pulling it offer, and we aren't. Why is that?[/quote]

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