Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: Heather Dublinske

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Friday, January 7, 2022

Who is in charge of @mcps now? Contact these three administrators regarding COVID-19 and @mcps

Call/email Damon Monteleone, Asst Chief of OTLS and ask what the protocols will be for determining that a school doesn’t have adequate staff to function & why the front-line staff have been left out the conversations and decision making 240-740-5630
Damon_A_Monteleone@mcpsmd.org
— 〰☻〰 (@_untamed_shrew) January 6, 2022

here are some things you can do (pls share with others):

Call/email Heather Dublinske, Coordinator of Student Welfare and Compliance, and demand rapid testing of every student and staff member every 5 days. (240-740-3215 Heather_Dublinske@mcpsmd.org)
— 〰☻〰 (@_untamed_shrew) January 6, 2022

Call/email Diane Morris, Associate Superintendent and Fall Design Team Lead (group responsible for COVD contingency planning), and demand to know how decisions are made about school closures. (240-740-3100 Diane_D_Morris@mcpsmd.org)
— 〰☻〰 (@_untamed_shrew) January 6, 2022

Friday, December 31, 2021

It's a Miracle! Two @mcps Elementary Schools have ZERO COVID-19!! How did they do it? Are Great Seneca Creek ES and South Lake ES Telling the Truth? Spoiler: No.

Take a look at the Montgomery County Public Schools COVID-19 School Dashboard. Order the school list by cases and scroll on down to the bottom of the list.

Look at that! Two elementary schools haven't had one single case of COVID-19 among staff or students! Great Seneca Creek Elementary ( approximately 538 students) and South Lake Elementary (approximately 790 students) have never reported a single case of COVID-19 among staff or students.

How can this be? What's their secret?

Their secret is that they aren't reporting. The Parents' Coalition has learned that COVID-19 reporting is being suppressed at some schools. Why would principals and school nurses suppress this information during a pandemic?

How can school opening/closing decisions be made if the true impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is being suppressed by individual schools?

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Principles

Formed in 2002, the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland seeks to achieve the goals of coherent, content-rich curriculum standards; high expectations combined with timely remediation and acceleration; a wider range of educational options for parents and children; greater transparency and accountability; and meaningful community input.

E-mail: parentscoalitionmc AT outlook.com

What The Washington Post said about the Parents' Coalition

The coalition might be the best-known parent advocacy group in the region. Its members represent several constituencies, including parents of special education and gifted education students and fiscal watchdogs. The group's defining victory came this school year when the school system scaled back the fees charged to families for course materials.

Coalition leaders have drawn attention to the misuse of funds collected from students for activities, the broadcast of a commercial radio service on school buses and, with their "Weast Watch" blog, the travel habits of Weast and his lieutenants.

The Washington Post, June 4, 2009

Jerry Weast on the Parents' Coalition

"Along the way, you’ve had a challenging relationship with the Parents’ Coalition, the network of citizen activists who use the political process and other means to hold MCPS accountable.

The thing people accuse me of is listening, but not hearing. I hear, but I do not always agree. I am sorry that the world is faster than it was 10 years ago. I did not do that. [But] if we do not keep up, then our kids will be behind. We have to stop whining and get real."

Bethesda Magazine, March-April 2011