MCPMess
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Anonymous
| Can we all agree to just call it this from now on? |
Anonymous
Don’t know whether to 😆 or 😭 |
Anonymous
| Seems appropriate. |
Anonymous
| Have been for a while. Should read: MCPMess the largest school district in MD |
Anonymous
| Can MoCo Council folks and MSDE peeps make extensive length visits to MCPMess schools and CO to see the state of MCPMess? |
Anonymous
| Ask Jeff to change forum name please. |
Anonymous
He must have read your comment here, he can change it if he chooses. |
Anonymous
+2! |
Anonymous
| I like it. |
Anonymous
| I don't think you're as clever as you believe yourself to be. |
Anonymous
Correct. My youngest is in a Bethesda high school. We know people from various privates and all the major public school districts of the DC, MD, VA area. MCPS is better at offering special programs to the gifted and special needs populations than most of the nation's public school systems. It's famous for it. It's the ONLY public school system in the US that offers a program specifically for twice exceptional kids (gifted and learning disabled). However, it has security problems, cronyism issues, and recently had a scandal with a known sexual harasser being promoted and protected by Central Office. DCPS is academically the pits, in part due to a large low-income population - but even NW DCPS doesn't come close to MCPS, because wealthy families in DC are more ready to put their kids in privates, more so than equivalent socio-economic areas of Bethesda and Chevy Chase. FCPS has serious operational and organizational issues. Further out, school districts have less economic and cultural heterogeneity to contend with, which makes instruction easier, but there is a dearth of special programs. |
Anonymous
post 6/9, 11:00 are you Lynne Harris ?????
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Anonymous
MCPS has serious operational and organizational issues as well. It’s not just the security and cronyism issues you cited. |
Anonymous
| Serious operational issues combined with security issues combined with overcrowding combined with a too large district. Even the most talented leaders would struggle to manage the ginormous school system and we definitely have not had leaders that I would describe as “the most talented.” Mcps may be better than others as a whole, but its heyday has passed and while I inderstand why a lot of people need to hold onto the idea that our schools are so amazing, I think those people need to take the blinders off and get more involved in selecting who is running the S-show so we can be more productive in finding solutions. |
Anonymous
That's basically exactly what she said in a Board meeting - "people complain until they see the alternative." |