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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elementary school done virtually makes no sense. What a waste of money! [/quote]

One statewide would be great for kids with health issues. [/quote]

The state cannot even remotely afford it. That's why they are demanding the counties do it, by the state is also looking to pass on a bunch of other costs to the counties. No, the money is not there. It borders on cruel to give these families hope in this fiscal environment. What a couple of POSs these lawmakers are.[/quote]

The issue is not about the state affording it.  They only license programs, not run them.  They’d have to contract it out like Virginia does.  The state should not be involved except to license the schools.

They are good people.  You should try being a good person and understanding others needs are different from your wants.  It’s cruel not to offer it when it’s an easy thing to do.  You are cruel.[/quote]

You sound really ignorant and entitled. Everything costs money. Virginia's.program costs money. Sounds like you want people to work for free.[/quote]

What are you talking about?  Someone is pushing the state option. They will not say what it should look like or who will pay for it.   MCPS has the funds and needs to pay for it.  We are in 2025, not in 1925 but even then they had a form of it at times.

In hs, kids have to be bussed to other schools for classes.  Virtual would be cheaper and give kids the classes they need.

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The people who convinced delegates Vogel and Miller to write the new law are pretty much all from MoCo. They want MCPS to reinstitute the virtual academy and aren’t interested in a state-wide option. If you take a look at the families who Delegates Vogel and Miller invited to testify when the Bill went to committee last week, they’re pretty much all MoCo interests. Having struck out with the MCPS BOE, this was a way for these supporters to pull a different lever to bring back the MVA. If the delegates were serious about providing the best and most cost-efficient virtual option for all of Maryland’s learners, they of course would have put the work in to assess a state-wide option. But the goal was a much more localized and focused one - MoCo families want their MoCo run virtual option back and found 2 delegates who were open to creating an unfunded mandate on the county to do so.

17 out of 23 Maryland school districts operate a virtual academy. MCPS is by far the most high profile district that does not and is the locus of the most ardent and the loudest supporters of the MVA. [/quote]

You keep talking about a state option but have no clear answers on how that would work.  Who would run it?  Who would pay for it?  What would it look like?   How would it compare to the MVA?  If 17 districts have it, [b]why doesn’t MCPS[/b]?[/quote]

Maybe because the BOE voted to terminate the program? 
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