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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student who has been at VA for a few years, our family has had great success! It's sad that it was mentioned as a failure when so many kids including mine have really thrived in VA. It would be heartbreaking to let it dissolve. I pay taxes and it's sooooo much better than the school we are zoned to!

The data doesn't lie. VA has been a failure. Kids would be better served in their home schools.

Maybe parents with actual experience speak before you do. Is this Jen reesman? Probably. We’re all tired of you. Welcome to the 21st century. Education is changing whether you like it or not.

Anecdotes aren't data. The data shows VA is a failure.

Data is more than just numbers, and that data isn't current. So you're wrong. Sorry. Every single MCPS Program should be under this much scrutiny. NOT because you want the data to say what you want it to say. A full picture is important WITH current data from all 3 years. And maybe compare it to other programs in MD that are trying to do what they can to serve their students and families b/c MSDE can't be bothered to approve any programs for its residents.

They should be looking at every school and program, not just the MVA and when budget is an issue cut out the extra's. The MVA is not an extra. The MVA and the extended school year are not huge amounts in the overall budget so it makes no sense except these are the most controversial programs to get the attention off the BOE problems. If anything, lets get rid of the BOE and start fresh.

+ infinity to a new board (except get rid of Mandel as a contender - she's a lunatic)

A lunatic backed by the reopening crowd. Her biggest followers are reesman and smelkinson… who have nothing better to do than continually post about something that happened 4 years ago.

Reopener here. You realize when you call us that, you reinforce how very right we were that virtual school would be a failure. Some did heed the recommendations of the "reopeners," but if more had (like the entire BOE), perhaps MCPS wouldn't be as bad off as it is.

Dear reopener, the virtual academy isn’t and never has been “pandemic schooling “. Way to out yourself ya weirdo. What a loony bunch you all were. If you still are harboring resentment for failing your kids, get some help please.

A couple pages back, one of the excuses for the precipitous decline in MVA enrollment was “COVID stabilization”. So which is it? You can’t say that the program isn’t pandemic schooling but blame the fact that more than half of students have left the program on the pandemic stabilizing.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student who has been at VA for a few years, our family has had great success! It's sad that it was mentioned as a failure when so many kids including mine have really thrived in VA. It would be heartbreaking to let it dissolve. I pay taxes and it's sooooo much better than the school we are zoned to!

The data doesn't lie. VA has been a failure. Kids would be better served in their home schools.

Maybe parents with actual experience speak before you do. Is this Jen reesman? Probably. We’re all tired of you. Welcome to the 21st century. Education is changing whether you like it or not.

Anecdotes aren't data. The data shows VA is a failure.

Data is more than just numbers, and that data isn't current. So you're wrong. Sorry. Every single MCPS Program should be under this much scrutiny. NOT because you want the data to say what you want it to say. A full picture is important WITH current data from all 3 years. And maybe compare it to other programs in MD that are trying to do what they can to serve their students and families b/c MSDE can't be bothered to approve any programs for its residents.

They should be looking at every school and program, not just the MVA and when budget is an issue cut out the extra's. The MVA is not an extra. The MVA and the extended school year are not huge amounts in the overall budget so it makes no sense except these are the most controversial programs to get the attention off the BOE problems. If anything, lets get rid of the BOE and start fresh.

+ infinity to a new board (except get rid of Mandel as a contender - she's a lunatic)

A lunatic backed by the reopening crowd. Her biggest followers are reesman and smelkinson… who have nothing better to do than continually post about something that happened 4 years ago.

Reopener here. You realize when you call us that, you reinforce how very right we were that virtual school would be a failure. Some did heed the recommendations of the "reopeners," but if more had (like the entire BOE), perhaps MCPS wouldn't be as bad off as it is.

Dear reopener, the virtual academy isn’t and never has been “pandemic schooling “. Way to out yourself ya weirdo. What a loony bunch you all were. If you still are harboring resentment for failing your kids, get some help please.

LOL only ones who failed their kids were the ones who kept them home. That is a fact that has been proven. Virtual Academy WAS pandemic schooling for those who didn't want to return to school when it reopened. Clearly it served its purpose at the time, but it is no longer needed. The only weirdos are the ones who want to continue this nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student who has been at VA for a few years, our family has had great success! It's sad that it was mentioned as a failure when so many kids including mine have really thrived in VA. It would be heartbreaking to let it dissolve. I pay taxes and it's sooooo much better than the school we are zoned to!

The data doesn't lie. VA has been a failure. Kids would be better served in their home schools.

Maybe parents with actual experience speak before you do. Is this Jen reesman? Probably. We’re all tired of you. Welcome to the 21st century. Education is changing whether you like it or not.

Anecdotes aren't data. The data shows VA is a failure.

Data is more than just numbers, and that data isn't current. So you're wrong. Sorry. Every single MCPS Program should be under this much scrutiny. NOT because you want the data to say what you want it to say. A full picture is important WITH current data from all 3 years. And maybe compare it to other programs in MD that are trying to do what they can to serve their students and families b/c MSDE can't be bothered to approve any programs for its residents.

They should be looking at every school and program, not just the MVA and when budget is an issue cut out the extra's. The MVA is not an extra. The MVA and the extended school year are not huge amounts in the overall budget so it makes no sense except these are the most controversial programs to get the attention off the BOE problems. If anything, lets get rid of the BOE and start fresh.

+ infinity to a new board (except get rid of Mandel as a contender - she's a lunatic)

A lunatic backed by the reopening crowd. Her biggest followers are reesman and smelkinson… who have nothing better to do than continually post about something that happened 4 years ago.

Reopener here. You realize when you call us that, you reinforce how very right we were that virtual school would be a failure. Some did heed the recommendations of the "reopeners," but if more had (like the entire BOE), perhaps MCPS wouldn't be as bad off as it is.

Dear reopener, the virtual academy isn’t and never has been “pandemic schooling “. Way to out yourself ya weirdo. What a loony bunch you all were. If you still are harboring resentment for failing your kids, get some help please.

A couple pages back, one of the excuses for the precipitous decline in MVA enrollment was “COVID stabilization”. So which is it? You can’t say that the program isn’t pandemic schooling but blame the fact that more than half of students have left the program on the pandemic stabilizing.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student who has been at VA for a few years, our family has had great success! It's sad that it was mentioned as a failure when so many kids including mine have really thrived in VA. It would be heartbreaking to let it dissolve. I pay taxes and it's sooooo much better than the school we are zoned to!

The data doesn't lie. VA has been a failure. Kids would be better served in their home schools.

Maybe parents with actual experience speak before you do. Is this Jen reesman? Probably. We’re all tired of you. Welcome to the 21st century. Education is changing whether you like it or not.

Anecdotes aren't data. The data shows VA is a failure.

Data is more than just numbers, and that data isn't current. So you're wrong. Sorry. Every single MCPS Program should be under this much scrutiny. NOT because you want the data to say what you want it to say. A full picture is important WITH current data from all 3 years. And maybe compare it to other programs in MD that are trying to do what they can to serve their students and families b/c MSDE can't be bothered to approve any programs for its residents.

They should be looking at every school and program, not just the MVA and when budget is an issue cut out the extra's. The MVA is not an extra. The MVA and the extended school year are not huge amounts in the overall budget so it makes no sense except these are the most controversial programs to get the attention off the BOE problems. If anything, lets get rid of the BOE and start fresh.

+ infinity to a new board (except get rid of Mandel as a contender - she's a lunatic)

A lunatic backed by the reopening crowd. Her biggest followers are reesman and smelkinson… who have nothing better to do than continually post about something that happened 4 years ago.

Reopener here. You realize when you call us that, you reinforce how very right we were that virtual school would be a failure. Some did heed the recommendations of the "reopeners," but if more had (like the entire BOE), perhaps MCPS wouldn't be as bad off as it is.

Dear reopener, the virtual academy isn’t and never has been “pandemic schooling “. Way to out yourself ya weirdo. What a loony bunch you all were. If you still are harboring resentment for failing your kids, get some help please.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student who has been at VA for a few years, our family has had great success! It's sad that it was mentioned as a failure when so many kids including mine have really thrived in VA. It would be heartbreaking to let it dissolve. I pay taxes and it's sooooo much better than the school we are zoned to!

The data doesn't lie. VA has been a failure. Kids would be better served in their home schools.

Maybe parents with actual experience speak before you do. Is this Jen reesman? Probably. We’re all tired of you. Welcome to the 21st century. Education is changing whether you like it or not.

Anecdotes aren't data. The data shows VA is a failure.

Data is more than just numbers, and that data isn't current. So you're wrong. Sorry. Every single MCPS Program should be under this much scrutiny. NOT because you want the data to say what you want it to say. A full picture is important WITH current data from all 3 years. And maybe compare it to other programs in MD that are trying to do what they can to serve their students and families b/c MSDE can't be bothered to approve any programs for its residents.

They should be looking at every school and program, not just the MVA and when budget is an issue cut out the extra's. The MVA is not an extra. The MVA and the extended school year are not huge amounts in the overall budget so it makes no sense except these are the most controversial programs to get the attention off the BOE problems. If anything, lets get rid of the BOE and start fresh.

+ infinity to a new board (except get rid of Mandel as a contender - she's a lunatic)

A lunatic backed by the reopening crowd. Her biggest followers are reesman and smelkinson… who have nothing better to do than continually post about something that happened 4 years ago.

Reopener here. You realize when you call us that, you reinforce how very right we were that virtual school would be a failure. Some did heed the recommendations of the "reopeners," but if more had (like the entire BOE), perhaps MCPS wouldn't be as bad off as it is.

Dear reopener, the virtual academy isn’t and never has been “pandemic schooling “. Way to out yourself ya weirdo. What a loony bunch you all were. If you still are harboring resentment for failing your kids, get some help please.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student who has been at VA for a few years, our family has had great success! It's sad that it was mentioned as a failure when so many kids including mine have really thrived in VA. It would be heartbreaking to let it dissolve. I pay taxes and it's sooooo much better than the school we are zoned to!

The data doesn't lie. VA has been a failure. Kids would be better served in their home schools.

Maybe parents with actual experience speak before you do. Is this Jen reesman? Probably. We’re all tired of you. Welcome to the 21st century. Education is changing whether you like it or not.

Anecdotes aren't data. The data shows VA is a failure.

Data is more than just numbers, and that data isn't current. So you're wrong. Sorry. Every single MCPS Program should be under this much scrutiny. NOT because you want the data to say what you want it to say. A full picture is important WITH current data from all 3 years. And maybe compare it to other programs in MD that are trying to do what they can to serve their students and families b/c MSDE can't be bothered to approve any programs for its residents.

They should be looking at every school and program, not just the MVA and when budget is an issue cut out the extra's. The MVA is not an extra. The MVA and the extended school year are not huge amounts in the overall budget so it makes no sense except these are the most controversial programs to get the attention off the BOE problems. If anything, lets get rid of the BOE and start fresh.

+ infinity to a new board (except get rid of Mandel as a contender - she's a lunatic)

A lunatic backed by the reopening crowd. Her biggest followers are reesman and smelkinson… who have nothing better to do than continually post about something that happened 4 years ago.

Reopener here. You realize when you call us that, you reinforce how very right we were that virtual school would be a failure. Some did heed the recommendations of the "reopeners," but if more had (like the entire BOE), perhaps MCPS wouldn't be as bad off as it is.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student who has been at VA for a few years, our family has had great success! It's sad that it was mentioned as a failure when so many kids including mine have really thrived in VA. It would be heartbreaking to let it dissolve. I pay taxes and it's sooooo much better than the school we are zoned to!

The data doesn't lie. VA has been a failure. Kids would be better served in their home schools.

Maybe parents with actual experience speak before you do. Is this Jen reesman? Probably. We’re all tired of you. Welcome to the 21st century. Education is changing whether you like it or not.

Anecdotes aren't data. The data shows VA is a failure.

Data is more than just numbers, and that data isn't current. So you're wrong. Sorry. Every single MCPS Program should be under this much scrutiny. NOT because you want the data to say what you want it to say. A full picture is important WITH current data from all 3 years. And maybe compare it to other programs in MD that are trying to do what they can to serve their students and families b/c MSDE can't be bothered to approve any programs for its residents.

They should be looking at every school and program, not just the MVA and when budget is an issue cut out the extra's. The MVA is not an extra. The MVA and the extended school year are not huge amounts in the overall budget so it makes no sense except these are the most controversial programs to get the attention off the BOE problems. If anything, lets get rid of the BOE and start fresh.

+ infinity to a new board (except get rid of Mandel as a contender - she's a lunatic)

A lunatic backed by the reopening crowd. Her biggest followers are reesman and smelkinson… who have nothing better to do than continually post about something that happened 4 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it: Why such vitriol towards the virtual academy?

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

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If only the MVA were that successful in getting people to sign up and actually stay in the program

Maybe use change.org for applications next year?

Isn’t it time for you to make dinner? Do something productive? Hang out with your kids? Unless they also can’t stand you.

You can see why some kids NEED to be in person.

Either way, let them keep bashing. It keeps this thread at the top for people to see the petition.

+1! I also shared it to friends to sign as well who understand the need.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

❤️

If only the MVA were that successful in getting people to sign up and actually stay in the program

Maybe use change.org for applications next year?

Isn’t it time for you to make dinner? Do something productive? Hang out with your kids? Unless they also can’t stand you.

You can see why some kids NEED to be in person.

Either way, let them keep bashing. It keeps this thread at the top for people to see the petition.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

❤️

If only the MVA were that successful in getting people to sign up and actually stay in the program

Maybe use change.org for applications next year?

Isn’t it time for you to make dinner? Do something productive? Hang out with your kids? Unless they also can’t stand you.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

❤️

If only the MVA were that successful in getting people to sign up and actually stay in the program

Maybe use change.org for applications next year?

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Anonymous wrote:Even pediatricians treating children enrolled in the MVA are starting to raise concerns:

"Local pediatrician Lavanya Sithanandam has worked with multiple patients enrolled in the Academy, and expressed concerns regarding the emotional and physical health of students engaged in full-time virtual learning. She worries that virtual learning doesn’t afford teachers the opportunity to monitor students’ well-being in the same way they do at in-person school. Given these concerns, she suggested a more limited online program for students with extenuating circumstances or illness, such as the Interim Instructional Services program, which serves to provide short-term out-of-school instruction to students who need it."

https://theblackandwhite.net/77321/news/recently-released-report-raises-questions-about-effectiveness-of-mcps-virtual-academy/

That is a bad article that was not fact checked and took the word of a few nut jobs. The ped is speculating and has no evidence of harm. Let’s talk about all the violence in mcps. Today has new offerings.

It's literally a quote from a pediatrician who has treated these children. What do you mean it's not fact checked? It's a direct quote. Are you saying the author made it up? Stop trying to grasp at straws here. You're going to need better arguments if you want the program to survive.

The pediatrician is making a bias statement. She says she’s concerned. She has not seen any actual harm.

The numbers are not accurate.

But, please. Keep basing the MVA. The more you do and the more you advertise the petition the numbers go up. Thanks for the help.

The numbers are not accurate! The data are not accurate! The attendance is not accurate! The quotes from doctors are not accurate! The only thing that's true is what I and 10 other people say on a change.org petition!

I feel sorry for the MVA loony parents. They really can't see how unreasonable and unhinged they sound.