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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]More complaining by people likely not doing anything to produce change.  Those who want change will actively be advocating for county, state, and district policy that moves change, and aligning expectation appropriately.

For example, if they want correct oversight then they will pay the BOE members a salary worthy of the time to do so, thus attracting more candidates.  They will also provide the funding so those persons have the appropriate staff to be able to ensure said oversight.

They will be actively paying attention to MSDE policy that is going to then drive policy and operations in districts.  They will be paying attention to budget from a position of analyzing needs, tradeoffs, and wants.

But what we have is people complaining about getting a new school.[/quote]

Oversight isn't a full time job. What corporate board of directors put anything remotely close to full time in?

The school board professional staff need to be pulled outside the superintendent's sphere of influence. Elected positions need to be truly part time, facilitating working parents to have those roles.[/quote]

They aren’t going to work 40 hours a week and some have full time jobs double dipping with the county.  What is your obsession over working parents?   Better to have an involved educated stay at home parent truly committed as they have more time.  A board job is not a living wage.  [/quote]

It shouldn't be. Board positions should reflect community members with kids in school. That isn't retirees that have no skin in the game. And SAHPs have very different equities than typical parents.

A committed, but misguided, board member can easily do more damage than incompetent board members. I definitely don't want to see SAHPs or retirees on the board. [/quote]

So, who don't you hate?  You think a high educated SAHP cannot do it.  That speaks volumes.  I don't want a working parent who is hyper focused on advancing their career.  The retirees make no sense as they don't have a clue.  [/quote]

A highly educated SAHP might be very effective in the position toward achieving their goals. But I'm not convinced we would have the same goals. A family with a SAHP has a very different set of equities and challenges than a typical family. We've always seen one recent example where this came through: school closures during covid.

families with SAHPs should not be over represented on the board.[/quote]

How many MCPS teachers died from COVID?  There is a number.  But it’s a secret.  Who do you think is keeping that number a secret? [/quote]

I think there was a good number and we knew a few.

However bashing a person for staying at home makes no sense and Covid is not relevant.  If you cared about people with health issues, the MVA would not have closed. [/quote]

This is what I meant. SAHPs have very different equities than typical families.No one else wanted to continue throwing money at MVA. [/quote]

Having virtual classes could help a lot of us who don’t have access to classes at their home schools.  
no, they don’t have different equities, they just make different choices than you do and you need to feel better about your life choices by putting down others.  It’s really not a big deal to make life choices to allow one parent to stay home at a pay level, especially with child and elderly care costs.  [/quote]

My point wasn't to relitigate MVA. Luckily we're past that.  But the example demonstrates the problem with having SAHP on the board. They're out of touch and would have very different priorities compared to what is important to most families.[/quote]

Kids have different needs and for some virtual is a better fit.  Hundreds left because t[/quote]

They took took it away.  It shows how out of touch you are and only feel families like yours are deserving.  [/quote]

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