MCPS
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Mink Brings School Vouchers One Step Closer
Read more: Mink Brings School Vouchers One Step CloserNo, Council Member Mink didn’t say these Moslem children are “just like bigots.” Nevertheless, would you want to send your children to a school where one of the top administrators says they are on the same side as bigots? I’m not part of the thought police crowd, and to me it’s a reasonable proposition to…
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BOE Lynne Harris Calls Muslim Girl “Brainwashed”
Read more: BOE Lynne Harris Calls Muslim Girl “Brainwashed”On May 25th, at a school board meeting, a high school Muslim student testified on her desire to opt-out of the LGTBQ curriculum being required by MCPS. As covered by MoC0 360, school board member Lynne Harris expressed feeling “kind of sorry” for the girl and wondering if she had just been “parroting dogma”. The…
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MCPS Expands Resources So Your Child Can Learn To Tuck and Bind
Read more: MCPS Expands Resources So Your Child Can Learn To Tuck and BindThe current controversy surrounding Montgomery County Public Schools has made national media. If you have been living in the cave over the last couple days, the activists within MCPS, the BOE, and community have been organizing to counter and smear a large and growing objection to not permitting parents from opting out of curriculum or…
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The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice Illusion
Read more: The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice IllusionThere are a three commonplace events that make me pause and feel how fortunate I am to be an American. One of them is when buying paper towels and toilet paper from Costco. It’s difficult to find a more effective combination of mass production, mass consumption, voluntary exchange, impeccable quality control, and a large corporation…
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A Radical Maoist Activist Keeps Popping Up in the Annual MCPS ‘K-12 Student AAPIHM Poster Art Contest’
Read more: A Radical Maoist Activist Keeps Popping Up in the Annual MCPS ‘K-12 Student AAPIHM Poster Art Contest’The Asian Pacific American Student Achievement Action Group (APASAAG) appears to be an in-house Asian-American Student Group at Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). For four years now, it has sponsored a poster art contest for K-12 students at MCPS. Other co-sponsors of the contest are noted as: the MCPS Department of Partnerships, the Calvin J. Li…
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Take Action: Change MCPS Elections
Read more: Take Action: Change MCPS ElectionsFollowing our explainer about the Board of Education’s illegitimate at-large elections, I received additional information on the matter from Delegate Marc Korman (D-Montgomery County). In addition to House Bill 0655 introduced by Delegate Brian M. Crosby (D-St. Mary’s), our very own MoCo House delegation recently introduced HB0380 to mandate district voting for the BoE’s district…
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MCPS Board of Education: MoCo’s most illegitimate governing body
Read more: MCPS Board of Education: MoCo’s most illegitimate governing bodyEmployees using MCPS credit cards for suspiciously personal use; secretive policy meetings; a proposed 10% tax hike to fund a school system with no performance improvements in return; capricious boundary changes. There are lots of reasons that people are upset with the Board of Education, but I fail to see the need for a rumpus.…
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The Property Tax Hike Rebellion
Read more: The Property Tax Hike RebellionLet’s talk about the 10% increase in property tax (aka, “10 cent revenue enhancement”) supposedly to fund MCPS. Montgomery County demographics are largely Democrats, and much of the workforce is in government, contracting, and hospitality industries. Many would ordinarily support paying more for the schools. (Not to diminish the real burden this places on retirees…
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The MCPS Budget Numbers They Don’t Want You To See
Read more: The MCPS Budget Numbers They Don’t Want You To SeeWith budget discussions well underway, the hot topic is additional funding for Montgomery County Public Schools. Sparked by a controversial proposal to raise property taxes by 10% to provide the additional funding, the unions and union backed politicians are out in full force advocating for it being a necessity. Their argument is that MCPS is…