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Anonymous wrote:Okay MCAAP it's your turn. Let us know where you stand.

HA! I can tell you that they don't stand with parents or teachers, that's for sure.

Anonymous wrote:Okay MCAAP it's your turn. Let us know where you stand.

Anonymous wrote:It is asinine to rush to roll out a multimillion dollar plan that purports to improve equity and access, without demanding that MCPS sufficiently prove to taxpayers and stakeholders that their proposed regional model would actually result in such.

This requires the process to be slowed down significantly.

Anonymous wrote:“MCEA’s elected representatives voted for more community input from educators, parents, and students – not less. We want to ensure that any new regional model is not only informed by the broader community, but that we don’t compromise meaningful equity and access in any new regional secondary program,” said MCEA President David Stein.

“We welcome new programs and policies in the district that improve student outcomes,” added MCEA Vice President Danillya Wilson, “But we remain deeply concerned that the district is moving too quickly to meaningfully gather input and address the various issues that we’re sharing as a community.”

“Access to programs is too important not to get it right. Let’s do this in a thoughtful manner that genuinely enhances equity and access.” President Stein continued. “We want to ensure that we’re not creating new problems in efforts to resolve ongoing concerns.”

+10000000

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they speaking out now? They are demanding new ideas from MCPS, but why not suggest a better plan?

You're from Central Office, I presume. No one else would think "MCEA is saying that MCPS is rushing through an incredibly complicated plan on a too short timeline without figure out enough of the details and gathering enough feedback-- that critique is only acceptable if they present their own version of the incredibly complicated plan to spell out exactly what details they think should he different."

You want to take a moment to rephrase this? If I follow your train of thought (which, sorry, was challenging), sounds like you are from Central Office and you are accusing MCEA of not doing the job that MCPS is supposed to do. MCPS methodology to date, now openly identified as iterative, should have had an educator-inclusive process that also had meaningful community input, not input that was ignored.

Are you talking to me or the person I was quoting? The person I was quoting is probably someone from Central Office. I don't know why else they would say of MCEA "Why are they speaking out now? They are demanding new ideas from MCPS, but why not suggest a better plan?". PP is presumably trying to discredit MCEA, but you and I both agree that MCEA should not have to "suggest a better plan" in order to critique what MCPS has done and call for slowing down the program model and doing it better.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they speaking out now? They are demanding new ideas from MCPS, but why not suggest a better plan?

You're from Central Office, I presume. No one else would think "MCEA is saying that MCPS is rushing through an incredibly complicated plan on a too short timeline without figure out enough of the details and gathering enough feedback-- that critique is only acceptable if they present their own version of the incredibly complicated plan to spell out exactly what details they think should he different."

You want to take a moment to rephrase this? If I follow your train of thought (which, sorry, was challenging), sounds like you are from Central Office and you are accusing MCEA of not doing the job that MCPS is supposed to do. MCPS methodology to date, now openly identified as iterative, should have had an educator-inclusive process that also had meaningful community input, not input that was ignored.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they speaking out now? They are demanding new ideas from MCPS, but why not suggest a better plan?

You're from Central Office, I presume. No one else would think "MCEA is saying that MCPS is rushing through an incredibly complicated plan on a too short timeline without figure out enough of the details and gathering enough feedback-- that critique is only acceptable if they present their own version of the incredibly complicated plan to spell out exactly what details they think should he different."

Anonymous wrote:Why are they speaking out now? They are demanding new ideas from MCPS, but why not suggest a better plan?

Anonymous wrote:Why are they speaking out now? They are demanding new ideas from MCPS, but why not suggest a better plan?