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Anonymous wrote:And it appears that all the QA sessions are for 6th and 7th grade parents only? Are other community stakeholders going to have avenues to vet their opinions?

This +1. I don't mind been bombarded by emails and messages. I DO MIND that the QA only aims to 6th and 7th graders, and the message is in the tone that this is set-in-stone, and we are just here to educate you, not at all a community feedback session. This really annoys me. The vote won't happen in December, and what is MCPS trying to do? Gaslighting/Brainwashing the 6th and 7th graders?

They are targeting 6th and 7th grade families because they are the first groups impacted by the changes making them critical stakeholders. Being sure they are aware, hearing their concerns, questions and feedback makes sense.

Feedback. Right.

Betcha the virtual sessions will have the audience on mute and chat turned off. They’ll have a Q&A option that the audience won’t be able to see. They wont answer most of the questions in the sessions and they won’t follow up about them either. That’s how the virtual sessions for the boundary studies went.

Anonymous wrote:And it appears that all the QA sessions are for 6th and 7th grade parents only? Are other community stakeholders going to have avenues to vet their opinions?

No. MCPS doesn’t want to hear from the community. They want to warn middle about what’s coming and then force this system on everyone.

They really need to slow down the programmatic changes. Maybe do one at a time. Start in a region without one of the new schools. Too much all at once is a recipe for failure on a mass scale.

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Anonymous wrote:And it appears that all the QA sessions are for 6th and 7th grade parents only? Are other community stakeholders going to have avenues to vet their opinions?

This +1. I don't mind been bombarded by emails and messages. I DO MIND that the QA only aims to 6th and 7th graders, and the message is in the tone that this is set-in-stone, and we are just here to educate you, not at all a community feedback session. This really annoys me. The vote won't happen in December, and what is MCPS trying to do? Gaslighting/Brainwashing the 6th and 7th graders?

They are targeting 6th and 7th grade families because they are the first groups impacted by the changes making them critical stakeholders. Being sure they are aware, hearing their concerns, questions and feedback makes sense.

These are just information sessions, meaning that they are their to inform the immediate cohorts that are going to be impacted the soonest, but nowhere in their message is suggesting they are collecting feedbacks or inputs to better formulate the implementation plans. And by far they have no plan or timeline built in their procedure to collect any community inputs or feedbacks to better shape their implementation plan. The study team members had been voicing out here and there that their inputs are completely ignored by the central office. So where and when exactly is feedback going to happen? These are questions I'm caring about and I personally really don't mind clicking a few more buttons to move the repeated message to junk box.

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Anonymous wrote:Not all that useful as they don’t include the new options. When will those be out? Do I have to attend a zoom to see them?

If they follow the same pattern as last time, the web site below will be updated around the same time as the Oct. 6th and 13th zoom meetings. You don't have to attend the zoom meetings to see the options, they're just if you want them to walk through each option one by one.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/boundary-study/

Best place to find out first is DCUM

This was shared on Sept. 3rd:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2025/09/boundary-study-october-meetings/

This link states: "Note that boundary study maps and additional resources will be available for the in-person sessions."

My guess is the first place to find the link to the new options will be right here, not on any of the gagillion apps MCPS uses to spam parents with their shameless self promotion

They'll have larger paper maps at the in-person sessions, but you'll still be able to see them on the website once it gets updated.

Which we'll find out about here on DCUM

Generally curious, how would you like to be informed of website updates?

I dgaf about website updates, as I am sure you might imagine. I would love if instead of sending me three identical messages last Friday about meetings I am not invited to or had already received messages about, if they might send one email when they release the new options. I don't need a text or a Remind message. One email is fine. Unfortunately, that appears to not be feasible unless they find it in their hearts to send it out as "General Information" instead of an "Alert". But they don't seem to want to use that option because their narcissistic self promotion messages must be texted! Parents must know immediately that other people's families are invited to be told about the program analysis they are ramming through all of our throats!

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Anonymous wrote:Not all that useful as they don’t include the new options. When will those be out? Do I have to attend a zoom to see them?

If they follow the same pattern as last time, the web site below will be updated around the same time as the Oct. 6th and 13th zoom meetings. You don't have to attend the zoom meetings to see the options, they're just if you want them to walk through each option one by one.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/boundary-study/

Best place to find out first is DCUM

This was shared on Sept. 3rd:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2025/09/boundary-study-october-meetings/

This link states: "Note that boundary study maps and additional resources will be available for the in-person sessions."

My guess is the first place to find the link to the new options will be right here, not on any of the gagillion apps MCPS uses to spam parents with their shameless self promotion

They'll have larger paper maps at the in-person sessions, but you'll still be able to see them on the website once it gets updated.

Which we'll find out about here on DCUM

Generally curious, how would you like to be informed of website updates?

Central Office staff has to prove that they did a lot of outreach, even if it's too much, and late in the game.

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Anonymous wrote:And it appears that all the QA sessions are for 6th and 7th grade parents only? Are other community stakeholders going to have avenues to vet their opinions?

This +1. I don't mind been bombarded by emails and messages. I DO MIND that the QA only aims to 6th and 7th graders, and the message is in the tone that this is set-in-stone, and we are just here to educate you, not at all a community feedback session. This really annoys me. The vote won't happen in December, and what is MCPS trying to do? Gaslighting/Brainwashing the 6th and 7th graders?

They are targeting 6th and 7th grade families because they are the first groups impacted by the changes making them critical stakeholders. Being sure they are aware, hearing their concerns, questions and feedback makes sense.