The Eastern Middle School Schedule Decision Reversal Group is still plugging away to reverse a scheduling change that will have a largely negative impact on the Humanities Boutique Program Magnet housed at the school.
Over the weekend they released a “blistering five-page report on the schedule situation. This was mailed Thursday, along with 35 pages of supporting documents, to every member of the BOE, the County Executive, the State Superintendent of Schools, selected members of the County Council, Maryland Senate, and Maryland BOE, and member of the press.”
You can read the report here. The supporting documents are not publicly available at this time.
The conclusion:
The schedule situation has damaged the environment at Eastern and Takoma Park middle schools, eroded trust in the school system, and demonstrated to students that strong advocacy is ineffectual for even the smallest of accommodations at the local level. We hope that some change will come from this report.
[...] magnet program parents and kids upset over proposed schedule changes. (By the way, they still have a formal appeal in to MCPS. The fat lady has not yet sung.) Particularly chagrined were incoming 6th grade [...]