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Serious Answers Only—How to Fix MCPS?
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Anonymous
| My kids have been in MCPS for 15 years and I’m just disgusted by the decline. Wondering if anyone has ideas to fix the many problems in MCPS? |
Anonymous
| First, State policies need to change in order for anything to change in MCPS. Then, there must be more accountability for MCPS to enact changes correctly and for the duration. |
Anonymous
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Have more special Ed classes in each school, not every child should be in a main stream class all day every day.
Stop sending the “ gifted” kids to separate schools. That would be a huge start. |
Anonymous
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Get rid of Central Office and start over. Make it a priority that people rotate from teaching to Central Office and back (they are so disconnected from the reality of the classroom right now). More teachers, less Central Office Staff. More Spec Ed teachers. More discipline with actual consequences no matter what coor your skin (so drug dealers in the Ws as well as gun carriers in ALL schools). Bring back SROs. Bring back midterms and final exams. No more 50% for no work. Tutors for those who need it - for free. The goal is graduating with competencies, not graduating because we passed you along.
The above would a good start |
Anonymous
| Have the honors and advanced classes in late elementary and middle school. Kids who are advanced need to feel challenged instead of dumbing everything down so people don’t feel left out is a terrible move. |
Anonymous
| Stop trying to fix social issues using education. Focus on teaching and accept the fact that different kids perform differently. Build more accountability at all levels of MCPS. Stop closing the gap by bringing down high performing kids. |
Anonymous
This already exist. Compact math, ELC, CES program, magnet programs, HIGH classes, Honors classes and different math tracks in MS. |
Anonymous
| Reprioritize the budget to focus more resources on the students and not on overpaid central office administrators |
Anonymous
Existing doesn’t serve the need when seats are severely limited. Window dressing doesn’t cut it. |
Anonymous
| Change boundaries every few years so no scoop is overcrowded. |
Anonymous
| What are the problems you see? I was a MCPS student years ago but my kids are still too young for school. |
Anonymous
| To fix MCPS you first need to change the demographic of the schools. All the spare money goes on smart boards and tech because that's the focus of the parents and what they think matters. |
Anonymous
Get off of DCUM. This website greatly exaggerates problems and there are a few folks with axes to grind. The vast majority of families of the 160,000+ students are more than satisfied with the education of their children. MCPS is a large organization with the typical problems of a large organization. Is there room for improvement? Yes. Is it in "decline"? No more than most school systems at this moment in our society who are struggling with problems beyond to direct control of school systems. |
Anonymous
I would like them to not have set boundaries (and no fixed cluster articulation) and instead use a lottery system for school assignment at entry at K/1, 6, and 9. Find the average capacity of the system overall for each level, and then assign kids by lottery to schools to keep them within +/-5% of the system-wide capacity. Factors to include would be ranking order, proximity, sibling link, and FARMS/ever-FARMS balance. In practice this would still result in fairly stable assignments, but a gradual "shift" of neighborhoods from one nearby school to another would happen as one neighborhood ages out and another starts to turn over housing to younger families. |
Anonymous
| Add SROs back to schools, and re-open the special school (Twain in Rockville) for students with behavioral problems, instead of just transferring them to the next school for them to make more problems. |