Friday, February 04, 2005
To where will the Pilot fly? And who will watch the landing?
The new sex-ed curriculum will be piloted at 3 MCPS middle schools, and 3 MCPS high schools this spring. But in which schools it will finally land is unknown.
Psssstt – wanna be let in on something? If you are a parent of a child who doesn’t attend one of these six schools, and statistically that is most probable since there are 25 high schools and 37 middle schools in Montgomery County, you will NOT particpate in evaluating the new curriculum and nor provide feedback to the BOE.
W-H-A-T! Why??
Because the BOE has no intention to offer information to the non-pilot school parents about the new curriculum in the form of mailings or informational meetings. That’s why.
Yes, it does seem astoundingly unfair, doesn’t it? Only those parents in the pilot schools will have input into the evaluation. All the other parents in the 56 other schools get to say, nothing.
The BOE is putting the majority of parents in the non-evaluation category, and in effect, limiting the ability of parents from their right to know and therefore make a critical informed decision for themselves that effects the lives of their own children, on how this new material will effect their youngsters, or not.
Someone needs to remind the BOE that the children in MCPS belong to their parents, not the school system. MCPS serves the citizenry, not the other way around. That’s why they call people who work for the government, ‘civil servants’.