MCPS Is Broken What Are Your Ideas to Fix It?

[Anonymous]

My personal view is that they need to return to a focus on high standards and expectations for both staff and students. This can be accomplished through a number of different ways, but the details are probably not that important right now. What are your ideas?

[Anonymous]

Really? The details are not important? That is why the entire system is broken. They have grand ideas, such as yours, with no logical, reasonable and realistic plan for implementation.

[Anonymous]

This is hilarious. "I think MCPS should work to be the best school system in the country? Who's with me?! Details to be worked out later!"

[Anonymous]

Dumb thread. Not worth a response. Vote.

[Anonymous]

Are you talking academically?

It's not the fault of MCPS, which is actually one of the best school systems in the nation.

The problem is two-fold and national: we don't pay our teachers enough, and we don't have rigorous teachers' degrees. We need to offer competitive pay, but only if teacher education is overhauled so that only the best and brightest are selected for education diplomas. As things stand now, we scrape the bottom of the barrel in terms of applicants, since people know they will never receive the recognition they deserve in this field. Some applicants are passionate, committed and highly intelligent, and to them it is a labor of love. My kids have had a few teachers like these, and they are worth their weight in gold. But unfortunately, the rest are not that intelligent. You cannot train students to think critically when the teachers cannot do it themselves.

So MCPS wastes its time and money fiddling with curriculum changes, because it's very hard to find excellent teachers in the morass of this nation's educational standards.

Finland is the well-known example of a country overhauling its education to prioritize teacher excellence. As a result, they are consistently at the top of listings for student achievement.

[Anonymous]

10:36 again. I hold the same opinion for police.

Most police officers are not that smart. No amount of racial sensitivity training will turn a dumb officer into one that makes the right split-second decision under the most intense pressure.

Police need much better pay and police academies need to select for more intelligent applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My personal view is that they need to return to a focus on high standards and expectations for both staff and students. This can be accomplished through a number of different ways, but the details are probably not that important right now. What are your ideas?

Stop catering to hyper-privileged parents and continue doing their job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dumb thread. Not worth a response. Vote.

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[Anonymous]

In my eyes, the fault lies at the federal level, which impacts states and counties. Cdc guidance was abysmal in delta. Biden just says schools should be safer than ever snd did not invest as much as needed.

[Anonymous]

The reason MCPS is failing is that we don’t value education as a country. We don’t really value children. Otherwise they wouldn’t have the worst, crumbling buildings and teachers who are paid low wages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason MCPS is failing is that we don’t value education as a country. We don’t really value children. Otherwise they wouldn’t have the worst, crumbling buildings and teachers who are paid low wages

In addition to that, there are no consequences in schools like there used to be. Kids know they can get away with pretty much any behavior. Also, the expectations are low, low, low. Turn in work whenever you want during the quarter and there are no late penalties? Come on. The kids are having a great time at school these days. They aren't learning much but they can play on their phones all day, turn in next to nothing and still pass. Woo hoo!

[Anonymous]

broken school system is not the cause, it's the result of poor county policies. low SES families = f'ed school system

[Anonymous]

👏👏👏+1000 to everyone who responded. I soo wish folks would stop acting like complex issues are easily solved. I soo wish people would be willing to put in the same amount of time to help fix issues as they do in complaining about them. And I really wish people would stop saying MCPS is broken when in reality it has challenges or areas of improvement like any organization, but on the whole is doing much better than most school districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason MCPS is failing is that we don’t value education as a country. We don’t really value children. Otherwise they wouldn’t have the worst, crumbling buildings and teachers who are paid low wages

In addition to that, there are no consequences in schools like there used to be. Kids know they can get away with pretty much any behavior. Also, the expectations are low, low, low. Turn in work whenever you want during the quarter and there are no late penalties? Come on. The kids are having a great time at school these days. They aren't learning much but they can play on their phones all day, turn in next to nothing and still pass. Woo hoo!

There is also little to no discipline and consequences at home. (see the Elementary student and Tween/Teen forum for evidence). And who gave kids these phones will little oversight? (Again, check the Tween/Teen forum).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:👏👏👏+1000 to everyone who responded. I soo wish folks would stop acting like complex issues are easily solved. I soo wish people would be willing to put in the same amount of time to help fix issues as they do in complaining about them. And I really wish people would stop saying MCPS is broken when in reality it has challenges or areas of improvement like any organization, but on the whole is doing much better than most school districts.

Why do you think the issues are “complex”?

An organization with high standards for its staff fires the person who lies to the public.

An organization with high standards for students reevaluates it’s grading practices and rubrics because it would understand that half of students graduating with a weighted 4.0 or better where the median SAT is 1150 doesn’t make a lot of sense.