Education
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To avoid ostracism, opt-in may be a better policy
Read more: To avoid ostracism, opt-in may be a better policyWe’ve run several stories on the opt-out movement (example), and to be honest I’m not entirely supportive of the opt-out objective. Standing up to the county’s progressives, whose sense of tolerance and respect declines with every passing day, is admirable where appropriate. Nevertheless, for the students’ welfare, I wonder if pursuing opt-in would be better…
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The 1% School Voucher Challenge
Read more: The 1% School Voucher ChallengeSeveral months ago I was at a parents’ meeting at an MCPS school. As so often happens at these meetings, nobody was happy. I mentioned to the group that instead of introducing one change or another to the curriculum or staff, we should ask for school vouchers. “What are school vouchers?” asked a young African-American…
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Christy Handy and Jennifer Martin’s opinion piece suffers from ethical bias and reversible short-term dementia
Read more: Christy Handy and Jennifer Martin’s opinion piece suffers from ethical bias and reversible short-term dementiaIn a MoCo360 piece Opinion: Full funding for MCPS is key to county’s future prosperity, Christine Handy (president of both Montgomery County Association of Administrators and Principals and Montgomery County Business Operations Administrators) and Jennifer Martin (president of the teachers’ union) make a claim that “fully funding” the school district results in prosperity. Regarding ethical…
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Before Electing an Abolitionist….What Does it Mean?
Read more: Before Electing an Abolitionist….What Does it Mean?In securing the coveted Apple Ballot endorsement, Natalie Zimmerman who is running for BOE District 2, completed a questionnaire where she professed to be an abolitionist educator. While parts of MoCo are probably highly aware of what this language means, we are guessing that the Leisure World mee-maw and the 60 hour a week plumber…
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One way the teachers’ union and MCPS manipulate teachers
Read more: One way the teachers’ union and MCPS manipulate teachersDuring the teachers’ union’s disruptive sit-in in May 2023, Rebecca Rothstein, educator and union representative, made the following argument as to why the public schools need to be “fully funded.” I’ve wanted to be a teacher my entire life…How dilapidated are our school buildings. How hard is it for teachers to pay their bills today.…
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The fallacy of MCPS’s top 100 salaries
Read more: The fallacy of MCPS’s top 100 salariesMoCo360 released a blockbuster list of the top 100 earners at MCPS. The most outrageous, elitist, and abominable aspect of this list is that I’m not on it. Outside of that, there really isn’t anything wrong. It really is OK that the school Superintendent Monifa McKnight made $342,400/year. Let’s do some critical analysis. Those top…
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Breaking Up MCPS
Read more: Breaking Up MCPSThere are some aspects of our life that are so ingrained in our consciousness that we don’t even question them. One of them is the boundary for “Montgomery County Public Schools.” The school district’s boundary coincides with the county’s boundary, so there is only one public school system for the entire county. Is that really…
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Excerpts from 2 Apple Ballot Candidates
Read more: Excerpts from 2 Apple Ballot CandidatesWe recently released how the 3 Apple Ballot endorsed candidates answered the survey sent by MCEA. Make sure to check out how they answered each question in full. We took some time to pull excerpts of responses from 2 candidates:
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Released: Apple Ballot Questionnaire Answers
Read more: Released: Apple Ballot Questionnaire AnswersWellllll, since the Apple endorsed candidates will not be transparent and release the answers they provided to the Apple Ballot Questionnaire and since MCEA will not release the answers the candidates provided…..we will. This of course does not cover any additional interviews the candidates took part in, what they might have been asked, and how…
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MCPS Budget: As Transparent as Glass
Read more: MCPS Budget: As Transparent as GlassIn an op-ed piece on MoCo 360, Council Member Evan Glass called for more transparency in how the school system uses the money we lavish upon it—voluntarily or otherwise. Unfortunately…the process for distributing $3 billion across the school system is not transparent. True, but not entirely true. We have some examples of some problematic school…