Contrary to what Superintendent Monifa McKnight and the Montgomery County Board of Education would have the public believe, there is actually more than one outside organization that brings science curriculum to local schools. The Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation (MAEF) has a Mobile Lab that visits local schools, including schools in Montgomery County.
The Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation wasn't permitted to bid on providing science education programs to MCPS schools so we will never know what they might have offered or the cost for their programs.
An open, transparent procurement process puts all of the options on the table and enables the Board of Education to make the best use of finite education funding. Will the Montgomery County Board of Education ever decide to put out all procurements for competitive bids?
Thank you Mrs. Stoner of the Mobile Science Lab - Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation (MAEF)! 🐮 We learned which was stronger? Milk or Elmers glue?? Awesome time learning. 🎆📝 pic.twitter.com/lRJuY05rlE
— LPES (@lpes_smcps) May 13, 2022
The STEM is losing its steam
ReplyDeleteLike coffee without its cream
Making clueless kids scream
In a race to make the team.
By rushing to STEM the tide
The world took us for a ride
Trying to balance the trade
The whole thing is a charade.
In order to stem the high tide
Of the fast moving brain flight
They came up with the STEM
Hoping to bring home the ham
But, once the old genie escapes
The rest are mere masquerades
Simple confusions and illusions
Along with grandeur delusions.