Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter what consortiums are called or which programs and created or folded, there were good schools and the rest getting by and there will be good schools with the rest just getting by after this. The only changes being a couple will shuffle around from mid tiers schools to losers and a couple just getting by into mid tier but the strong ones will be the same. All the gripes i see on this board are from the mid tier schools afraid of going backwards draping themself in the flag of justice. But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one? Blair got to be mid tier by picking off motivated students from the DCC and pulling in hundreds of affluent rock stars, sure on paper it looks less DCC but it was really inflicting on the home schools of those kids what it is decrying will happen to it when it is clustered to better schools and loses the STEM program. All while not making a huge difference to its local kids other than appeasing the middle class who owned homes IB to it. Now each cluster will have a best school and many will have access to a W they never had before. Seems like a step in the right direction

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter what consortiums are called or which programs and created or folded, there were good schools and the rest getting by and there will be good schools with the rest just getting by after this. The only changes being a couple will shuffle around from mid tiers schools to losers and a couple just getting by into mid tier but the strong ones will be the same. All the gripes i see on this board are from the mid tier schools afraid of going backwards draping themself in the flag of justice. But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one? Blair got to be mid tier by picking off motivated students from the DCC and pulling in hundreds of affluent rock stars, sure on paper it looks less DCC but it was really inflicting on the home schools of those kids what it is decrying will happen to it when it is clustered to better schools and loses the STEM program. All while not making a huge difference to its local kids other than appeasing the middle class who owned homes IB to it. Now each cluster will have a best school and many will have access to a W they never had before. Seems like a step in the right direction

What do you mean by "But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one?" Schools like Einstein and Northwood are not mid-tier because of a disproportionate amount of funds being spent on them (and I don't see any reason to think they "look less mediocre than [they] really [are]") and the issue is not that funds are being shifted away from them, it's that they are going to lose half or more of their advanced kids to Blair, BCC, and Whitman and may well end up in an academic death spiral. MCPS easily could have avoided this by putting academic programs for high-achievers like IB and humanities at Einstein and Northwood rather than BCC and Whitman (which would have helped Einstein and Northwood without hurting BCC and Whitman at all), but they just don't care. I'm sure the same story is going on in other regions too.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter what consortiums are called or which programs and created or folded, there were good schools and the rest getting by and there will be good schools with the rest just getting by after this. The only changes being a couple will shuffle around from mid tiers schools to losers and a couple just getting by into mid tier but the strong ones will be the same. All the gripes i see on this board are from the mid tier schools afraid of going backwards draping themself in the flag of justice. But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one? Blair got to be mid tier by picking off motivated students from the DCC and pulling in hundreds of affluent rock stars, sure on paper it looks less DCC but it was really inflicting on the home schools of those kids what it is decrying will happen to it when it is clustered to better schools and loses the STEM program. All while not making a huge difference to its local kids other than appeasing the middle class who owned homes IB to it. Now each cluster will have a best school and many will have access to a W they never had before. Seems like a step in the right direction

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter what consortiums are called or which programs and created or folded, there were good schools and the rest getting by and there will be good schools with the rest just getting by after this. The only changes being a couple will shuffle around from mid tiers schools to losers and a couple just getting by into mid tier but the strong ones will be the same. All the gripes i see on this board are from the mid tier schools afraid of going backwards draping themself in the flag of justice. But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one? Blair got to be mid tier by picking off motivated students from the DCC and pulling in hundreds of affluent rock stars, sure on paper it looks less DCC but it was really inflicting on the home schools of those kids what it is decrying will happen to it when it is clustered to better schools and loses the STEM program. All while not making a huge difference to its local kids other than appeasing the middle class who owned homes IB to it. Now each cluster will have a best school and many will have access to a W they never had before. Seems like a step in the right direction

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter what consortiums are called or which programs and created or folded, there were good schools and the rest getting by and there will be good schools with the rest just getting by after this. The only changes being a couple will shuffle around from mid tiers schools to losers and a couple just getting by into mid tier but the strong ones will be the same. All the gripes i see on this board are from the mid tier schools afraid of going backwards draping themself in the flag of justice. But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one? Blair got to be mid tier by picking off motivated students from the DCC and pulling in hundreds of affluent rock stars, sure on paper it looks less DCC but it was really inflicting on the home schools of those kids what it is decrying will happen to it when it is clustered to better schools and loses the STEM program. All while not making a huge difference to its local kids other than appeasing the middle class who owned homes IB to it. Now each cluster will have a best school and many will have access to a W they never had before. Seems like a step in the right direction

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter what consortiums are called or which programs and created or folded, there were good schools and the rest getting by and there will be good schools with the rest just getting by after this. The only changes being a couple will shuffle around from mid tiers schools to losers and a couple just getting by into mid tier but the strong ones will be the same. All the gripes i see on this board are from the mid tier schools afraid of going backwards draping themself in the flag of justice. But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one? Blair got to be mid tier by picking off motivated students from the DCC and pulling in hundreds of affluent rock stars, sure on paper it looks less DCC but it was really inflicting on the home schools of those kids what it is decrying will happen to it when it is clustered to better schools and loses the STEM program. All while not making a huge difference to its local kids other than appeasing the middle class who owned homes IB to it. Now each cluster will have a best school and many will have access to a W they never had before. Seems like a step in the right direction

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Anonymous wrote:This article about the regional program model spends multiple paragraphs lifting up the voices of people like Josh Starr, Thomas Taylor, the BOE and the two men that lead the Black and Brown Coalition but you have to read all the way to the bottom of the article to learn that the MCEA, MCCPTA have approved resolutions urging to slow down and change their approach in addition to the petitions signed by hundreds of people.

Seriously. The M.ad M.ommies of M.o.Co are always Big_Mad about something. It’s comical.

Thank you MCPS Comms.

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Anonymous wrote:This article about the regional program model spends multiple paragraphs lifting up the voices of people like Josh Starr, Thomas Taylor, the BOE and the two men that lead the Black and Brown Coalition but you have to read all the way to the bottom of the article to learn that the MCEA, MCCPTA have approved resolutions urging to slow down and change their approach in addition to the petitions signed by hundreds of people.

Seriously. The M.ad M.ommies of M.o.Co are always Big_Mad about something. It’s comical.

Anonymous wrote:The NAACP wrote a letter supporting it.

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Anonymous wrote:Black and Brown "coalition" is just 2 dudes, like Parents Coalition is just one lady.

Give yourself a phony name and file some palers and you can be a Coalition or an Institution or a Foundation to.

No, Black and Brown Coalition has more but they are the same as the NAACP people.

Half of Black and Brown Coalition is NAACP Parents’ Council, which is what Byron leads. The other half is led by Diego and his organization Identity.

Identity is made up of 100% of employees who are paid with county dollars to run programs for MCPS students. Total conflict of interest for Uriburu - one hand washes the other.

To be fair it's really Byron Johns who has been pushing the support. What bothers me is this is clearly him backing up his MCPS buddies but they and the media act like they speak for all the Black and Latino families in MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Black and Brown "coalition" is just 2 dudes, like Parents Coalition is just one lady.

Give yourself a phony name and file some palers and you can be a Coalition or an Institution or a Foundation to.

No, Black and Brown Coalition has more but they are the same as the NAACP people.

Half of Black and Brown Coalition is NAACP Parents’ Council, which is what Byron leads. The other half is led by Diego and his organization Identity.

Identity is made up of 100% of employees who are paid with county dollars to run programs for MCPS students. Total conflict of interest for Uriburu - one hand washes the other.

To be fair it's really Byron Johns who has been pushing the support. What bothers me is this is clearly him backing up his MCPS buddies but they and the media act like they speak for all the Black and Latino families in MCPS.

The NAACP Parents Council doesn't have a formal process to "sign on" to things. They never polled their members or discussed it in detail with them to understand pros and cons. And when members said that process felt wrong, they got yelled at.

So anytime they are saying they have a stance on something, remember that it's how Byron Johns feels on any given day, not a rigorous process. MCCPTA has its issues, but they go through a documented (tedious) process for any public resolutions or advocacy stances.