Anonymous wrote:It made me hopeful to see her bold vision for MCPS and how they're committed to improving things!

PR and nothing more. Waste of more tax payer money

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Anonymous wrote:
For years, and over the course of several Superintendent tenures, MCPS has made a point of spending a ton on messaging, and not on actual academic rigor. This is so they can continue to brand themselves as the best large public school system in the nation, while practices on the ground do not entirely reach their claims. Don't get me wrong. My kids are in MCPS for a reason. It's about as good as it gets in the USA if you want free education. But it could be so much better, yet they choose to spend their dollars on PR instead...

It's a group text. It's free.

Oh you naive one. You're probably the one who thinks what celebrities say and do are spur-of-the-moment things, and not heavily curated and planned by their well-paid PR team on retainer. Cute, PP, cute.

MCPS spends a FORTUNE on PR. MILLIONS. That little group of words you just received did not just pop into her head and make its way to a free messaging system.

Ha ha! Really, you're so refreshing.

Sounds like a load of crap.

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Anonymous wrote:
For years, and over the course of several Superintendent tenures, MCPS has made a point of spending a ton on messaging, and not on actual academic rigor. This is so they can continue to brand themselves as the best large public school system in the nation, while practices on the ground do not entirely reach their claims. Don't get me wrong. My kids are in MCPS for a reason. It's about as good as it gets in the USA if you want free education. But it could be so much better, yet they choose to spend their dollars on PR instead...

It's a group text. It's free.

Someone had to be paid for the time it took to write it. Definitely not free.

Go McKnight!!! I'm looking forward to a new beginning. Let's see what she can do. Do you NOT every year think of Fall as a new beginning? Who doesn't. Stop being such cranky fusspots. It's not healthy.

Anonymous wrote:
For years, and over the course of several Superintendent tenures, MCPS has made a point of spending a ton on messaging, and not on actual academic rigor. This is so they can continue to brand themselves as the best large public school system in the nation, while practices on the ground do not entirely reach their claims. Don't get me wrong. My kids are in MCPS for a reason. It's about as good as it gets in the USA if you want free education. But it could be so much better, yet they choose to spend their dollars on PR instead...

It's a group text. It's free.

I really don't know what to make of all this. She has shaken up the central office staff for the second time now. Which may or may not be a good thing. I worry about lack of institutional knowledge, but I suppose there is the hope of fresh views.

I also worry it's all talk and no real action.

Anonymous wrote:July is the start of the fiscal year and the start of the next school year. Staff and teachers in new positions start them in July. This week and next are leadership team weeks at schools, where they begin detailed planning for next year and determine school priorities and initiatives. Yes, this week is a new beginning.

July 1st was also Dr. McKnight's first official day as the superintendent.

July is the start of the fiscal year and the start of the next school year. Staff and teachers in new positions start them in July. This week and next are leadership team weeks at schools, where they begin detailed planning for next year and determine school priorities and initiatives. Yes, this week is a new beginning.

Anonymous wrote:I thought the kids are on summer holidays and will be begin only at the end of August.

You think everyone just shows up on the same day as the kids return, and everything just runs smoothly? For those in the administration, the 2022-2023 school year has already begun! Planning for transportation, logistics, supplies, contracts, cleaning, maintenance, etc., are all underway.

For years, and over the course of several Superintendent tenures, MCPS has made a point of spending a ton on messaging, and not on actual academic rigor. This is so they can continue to brand themselves as the best large public school system in the nation, while practices on the ground do not entirely reach their claims. Don't get me wrong. My kids are in MCPS for a reason. It's about as good as it gets in the USA if you want free education. But it could be so much better, yet they choose to spend their dollars on PR instead...

Anonymous wrote:Just received a message from MCPS which states A New Beginning? Can someone explain what is new? and what is beginning now? I thought the kids are on summer holidays and will be begin only at the end of August.
Am I the only one confused about this?

Did you read the message that was linked in the email?

"Each July ushers in an exciting new beginning for our school system. We take advantage of the summer months to launch new opportunities and programs and to carefully plan for how to make progress on our priorities in the year ahead.

We’re hard at work even during the summer. Our two innovative calendar schools, Roscoe R. Nix and Arcola elementaries, began their school year today, July 6; the students at these schools benefit from an additional 30 school days of learning and enrichment. Thousands more students continue learning in our summer programs. We have many staff members beginning new journeys leading and supporting schools and students in critical new roles. And the priorities funded through our Fiscal Year 2023 operating budget now begin."

Same old claptrap.

It made me hopeful to see her bold vision for MCPS and how they're committed to improving things!

Just received a message from MCPS which states A New Beginning? Can someone explain what is new? and what is beginning now? I thought the kids are on summer holidays and will be begin only at the end of August.
Am I the only one confused about this?