Anonymous wrote:I have been impressed with how some schools strategically organized and rallied to get to certain outcomes with the recent boundary studies whereas mine didn’t fare well. How much of this is PTA effectiveness and savviness? Or was it something else?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard that some BOE members said the most effective advocacy were those who proposed alternative solutions. So rather than just complaining and throwing insults, they pointed to a pathway to help solve their issue. The Save Wootton crowd is a master class in How To Never Get Change and Never Influence people. Maligning motives and peddling wild conspiracy theories. Spamming a survey - including a cyber breach - and then not understanding surveys aren’t votes. Refusing to consider any alternative including using Crown as holding school until their backs were against the wall. Rampant disinformation. Next time just do the opposite of save woooton and you’ll be effective.

This is gold and so true. People tried to repeatedly tell them and they still didn't and still won't listen.

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Anonymous wrote:WJ parents win in a sense. While they didn’t get to boot out the poorer black and brown kids, they do have their What’s App group to organize how to boss around the new principal and AD when they’re hired on July 1. They even got MCPS to share the What’s App invite link at live meetings!!!

The poorer black and brown kids' PTAs met separately with Taylor, rather than flood BOE meetings.

Meeting with Taylor means absolutely nothing. He'll meet with you and hand you a box of tissues and a bottle of water. And then go on to do whatever he wants to do.

At the point at which these meetings happened, the only way anything about Taylor’s plan was going to change was if everyone, all of the communities affected, wanted the same thing. And they didn’t. So the plan stayed what it was.

I don’t understand the hate for trying to set up a PTA for the new school and trying to make sure all parent communities are involved though. Is PP against the existence of PTAs generally?

Exactly. Now it’s time to get these schools up and running, that includes parent volunteers. These schools are lucky to have parent volunteers like these!

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Anonymous wrote:WJ parents win in a sense. While they didn’t get to boot out the poorer black and brown kids, they do have their What’s App group to organize how to boss around the new principal and AD when they’re hired on July 1. They even got MCPS to share the What’s App invite link at live meetings!!!

The poorer black and brown kids' PTAs met separately with Taylor, rather than flood BOE meetings.

Meeting with Taylor means absolutely nothing. He'll meet with you and hand you a box of tissues and a bottle of water. And then go on to do whatever he wants to do.

At the point at which these meetings happened, the only way anything about Taylor’s plan was going to change was if everyone, all of the communities affected, wanted the same thing. And they didn’t. So the plan stayed what it was.

I don’t understand the hate for trying to set up a PTA for the new school and trying to make sure all parent communities are involved though. Is PP against the existence of PTAs generally?

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Anonymous wrote:WJ parents win in a sense. While they didn’t get to boot out the poorer black and brown kids, they do have their What’s App group to organize how to boss around the new principal and AD when they’re hired on July 1. They even got MCPS to share the What’s App invite link at live meetings!!!

The poorer black and brown kids' PTAs met separately with Taylor, rather than flood BOE meetings.

Meeting with Taylor means absolutely nothing. He'll meet with you and hand you a box of tissues and a bottle of water. And then go on to do whatever he wants to do.

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Anonymous wrote:WJ parents win in a sense. While they didn’t get to boot out the poorer black and brown kids, they do have their What’s App group to organize how to boss around the new principal and AD when they’re hired on July 1. They even got MCPS to share the What’s App invite link at live meetings!!!

The poorer black and brown kids' PTAs met separately with Taylor, rather than flood BOE meetings.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard that some BOE members said the most effective advocacy were those who proposed alternative solutions. So rather than just complaining and throwing insults, they pointed to a pathway to help solve their issue. The Save Wootton crowd is a master class in How To Never Get Change and Never Influence people. Maligning motives and peddling wild conspiracy theories. Spamming a survey - including a cyber breach - and then not understanding surveys aren’t votes. Refusing to consider any alternative including using Crown as holding school until their backs were against the wall. Rampant disinformation. Next time just do the opposite of save woooton and you’ll be effective.

Anonymous wrote:WJ parents win in a sense. While they didn’t get to boot out the poorer black and brown kids, they do have their What’s App group to organize how to boss around the new principal and AD when they’re hired on July 1. They even got MCPS to share the What’s App invite link at live meetings!!!

Anonymous wrote:WJ parents win in a sense. While they didn’t get to boot out the poorer black and brown kids, they do have their What’s App group to organize how to boss around the new principal and AD when they’re hired on July 1. They even got MCPS to share the What’s App invite link at live meetings!!!