If this is your biggest issue with MCPS, we're doing great!

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Anonymous wrote:New poster. MCPS has had bocce at Einstein and Churchill for many years. It is an Allied Sport - disabled students play alongside neurotypical students. It's a fantastic program. That being said, I know nothing about the COVID funds.

It was federal money that was meant to help alleviate the negative impact of the Covid pandemic. MCPS used it for bocce instead of using it to hire additional staff or to upgrade buildings or to buy necessary supplies.

It helped alleviate the mental health issues and stress caused by covid. Money well spent!

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Anonymous wrote: Should mcps cut funding for other sports too? Maybe all extracurriculars to save money

Money was for covid, not sports. But you know that and are bored.

Could someone explain the connection between bocce and covid money?

MCPS got extra funding for covid related expenses. The money was supposed to be used to help with repairing/updating the schools, cleanings, staffing, helping kids who fell behind, etc. and instead they spent the money on buying bocce ball sets.

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Nobody is ‘mad about bocce ball’. We’re mad about MCPS misused Covid funds. Your title is misleading.

How dare they spend money to allow disabled students to participate in a sport!!!

They already had bocce ball in several schools. Disabled students should be able to participate in the same sports offered to all students.

How stupid are you? Hint if you actually had a disabled child, which you don't, your first priority would be a safe classroom so your child could be educated during covid without getting sick. Central office must really, really be bored right now to spend so much time posting the same thing over and over and over. Central is having a covid outbreak right now you would think you all would be too busy for chat room harassment.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster. MCPS has had bocce at Einstein and Churchill for many years. It is an Allied Sport - disabled students play alongside neurotypical students. It's a fantastic program. That being said, I know nothing about the COVID funds.

It was federal money that was meant to help alleviate the negative impact of the Covid pandemic. MCPS used it for bocce instead of using it to hire additional staff or to upgrade buildings or to buy necessary supplies.

Using it to teach kids a game they can play together while social distancing (Bocce is really good for this) seems reasonable.

Students with disabilities, especially the more significantly disabled kids who are most likely to play bocce, were hugely disproportionately impacted by covid. Medically, they are far more at risk, and the social impact on kids who can't interact via text or use technology independently has been enormous. Using covid funds to provide safe opportunities for kids to develop the skills they lost seems like one of the best uses for covid funds.

A bocce ball set costs $30. Even if they bought 100, that’s only $3000, which won’t pay for the staff they can’t find or anything else worthwhile.

Find something worthwhile to be outraged about!

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Anonymous wrote: Should mcps cut funding for other sports too? Maybe all extracurriculars to save money

Money was for covid, not sports. But you know that and are bored.

Could someone explain the connection between bocce and covid money?

MCPS got extra funding for covid related expenses. The money was supposed to be used to help with repairing/updating the schools, cleanings, staffing, helping kids who fell behind, etc. and instead they spent the money on buying bocce ball sets.

THIS.

Nobody is ‘mad about bocce ball’. We’re mad about MCPS misused Covid funds. Your title is misleading.

How dare they spend money to allow disabled students to participate in a sport!!!

My kids loved bocce this past fall. Kudos to MCPS for money well spent.

They introduced my kids to it at TPMS this year. They loved it!

You mean the school with the gifted, not disability programs housed in it... that's rich.

Not all students with disabilities attend "programs". TPMS serves a number of students with physical and developmental disabilities. Bocce benefits them and their peers!

Anonymous wrote:New poster. MCPS has had bocce at Einstein and Churchill for many years. It is an Allied Sport - disabled students play alongside neurotypical students. It's a fantastic program. That being said, I know nothing about the COVID funds.

It was federal money that was meant to help alleviate the negative impact of the Covid pandemic. MCPS used it for bocce instead of using it to hire additional staff or to upgrade buildings or to buy necessary supplies.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster. MCPS has had bocce at Einstein and Churchill for many years. It is an Allied Sport - disabled students play alongside neurotypical students. It's a fantastic program. That being said, I know nothing about the COVID funds.

That's the million dollar question. If they have all the set up, why do they need to do more?

I know it was new at our middle school this year, and I think it's great they're investing in sports that all children can enjoy.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster. MCPS has had bocce at Einstein and Churchill for many years. It is an Allied Sport - disabled students play alongside neurotypical students. It's a fantastic program. That being said, I know nothing about the COVID funds.

That's the million dollar question. If they have all the set up, why do they need to do more?

I know it was new at our middle school this year, and I think it's great they're investing in sports that all children can enjoy.

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Anonymous wrote: Should mcps cut funding for other sports too? Maybe all extracurriculars to save money

Money was for covid, not sports. But you know that and are bored.

Could someone explain the connection between bocce and covid money?

MCPS got extra funding for covid related expenses. The money was supposed to be used to help with repairing/updating the schools, cleanings, staffing, helping kids who fell behind, etc. and instead they spent the money on buying bocce ball sets.

THIS.

Nobody is ‘mad about bocce ball’. We’re mad about MCPS misused Covid funds. Your title is misleading.

How dare they spend money to allow disabled students to participate in a sport!!!

My kids loved bocce this past fall. Kudos to MCPS for money well spent.

They introduced my kids to it at TPMS this year. They loved it!

Our kids loved it too!

Anonymous wrote:New poster. MCPS has had bocce at Einstein and Churchill for many years. It is an Allied Sport - disabled students play alongside neurotypical students. It's a fantastic program. That being said, I know nothing about the COVID funds.

That's the million dollar question. If they have all the set up, why do they need to do more?

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Anonymous wrote: Should mcps cut funding for other sports too? Maybe all extracurriculars to save money

Money was for covid, not sports. But you know that and are bored.

Could someone explain the connection between bocce and covid money?

MCPS got extra funding for covid related expenses. The money was supposed to be used to help with repairing/updating the schools, cleanings, staffing, helping kids who fell behind, etc. and instead they spent the money on buying bocce ball sets.

THIS.

Nobody is ‘mad about bocce ball’. We’re mad about MCPS misused Covid funds. Your title is misleading.

How dare they spend money to allow disabled students to participate in a sport!!!

My kids loved bocce this past fall. Kudos to MCPS for money well spent.

They introduced my kids to it at TPMS this year. They loved it!

You mean the school with the gifted, not disability programs housed in it... that's rich.

New poster. MCPS has had bocce at Einstein and Churchill for many years. It is an Allied Sport - disabled students play alongside neurotypical students. It's a fantastic program. That being said, I know nothing about the COVID funds.

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Anonymous wrote: Should mcps cut funding for other sports too? Maybe all extracurriculars to save money

Money was for covid, not sports. But you know that and are bored.

Could someone explain the connection between bocce and covid money?

MCPS got extra funding for covid related expenses. The money was supposed to be used to help with repairing/updating the schools, cleanings, staffing, helping kids who fell behind, etc. and instead they spent the money on buying bocce ball sets.

THIS.

Nobody is ‘mad about bocce ball’. We’re mad about MCPS misused Covid funds. Your title is misleading.

How dare they spend money to allow disabled students to participate in a sport!!!

My kids loved bocce this past fall. Kudos to MCPS for money well spent.

They introduced my kids to it at TPMS this year. They loved it!

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Anonymous wrote: Should mcps cut funding for other sports too? Maybe all extracurriculars to save money

Money was for covid, not sports. But you know that and are bored.

Could someone explain the connection between bocce and covid money?

MCPS got extra funding for covid related expenses. The money was supposed to be used to help with repairing/updating the schools, cleanings, staffing, helping kids who fell behind, etc. and instead they spent the money on buying bocce ball sets.

THIS.

Nobody is ‘mad about bocce ball’. We’re mad about MCPS misused Covid funds. Your title is misleading.

Not just that, it’s an attempt to change the subject. MCPS used COVID money for the KID Museum and Bocce. A lot of people, particularly parents with kids in schools in desperate need of repairs can rightfully wonder whether the priorities are in the right place.