A review of LCPS

[Anonymous]

We have been here 5 years now and I wanted to summarize my thoughts for those who may also consider moving from a major metropolitan city to this area. For the urban mindset, maybe FCPS offers a better alternative? I haven’t experienced it so others can chime in.

I find this school district LCPS to be insular and unsophisticated, offering an uninspired and mechanistic education that teaches a very narrow world view with little exposure to broader intellectual currents. Certainly, global critical thinkers are not developed here. Yet paradoxically, there is also this very strange and performative progressive social posturing that feels vapid and dogmatic. It doesn’t seem to be driven by authentic core values, nor is it centered around student learning and development. It’s like an insulated small-town culture wrapped in some kind of robotic ideological shroud or script - devoid of substance. All in all, it’s really the worst of both worlds here. Provincial in perspective and performative in culture and inclusion.

[Anonymous]

I can't stand LCPS, but I only have the school district that I was raised in to compare it to. Everything the admin does is so performative. Example from just this month: one of my kids has a very violent student who threw a chair as as knocked over a book shelf. They were evacuated weekly. I have received ZERO emails or notices from school about it even though my kid was hit by a shelf. What did I receive an email about? I received a school wide email about that one kid called another kid a racial epithet and how the school would not take bullying like this lightly. This kid was not in either of my kids' classes or grades, but somehow that warranted an entire school wide email. When my dd was being bullied (not racial bullying) several months ago, nothing.

Can they please focus on academics and discipline? I'm glad they don't like bullying or racism.

Oh and the laptops are out of control. Teachers aren't able to maintain any sort of control anymore because the kids are off playing games and there's too many of them for the teacher to control laptop usage.

[Anonymous]

OP put your kid in private school.

Moms4liberty religious private would be better for you and your family.

We see the racist, garbage you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP put your kid in private school.

Moms4liberty religious private would be better for you and your family.

We see the racist, garbage you are.

That’s funny since I’m a person of color talking about the performative progressive posturing that lacks substance, and an education that lacks intellectual rigor or sophistication. Close-minded, small-minded, not at all inclusive, and unable to engage in complex and nuanced conversation. Thank you, NP for so effectively illustrating my point.

[Anonymous]

Okay but what about the academics? That mostly seems to be missing from your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay but what about the academics? That mostly seems to be missing from your post.

OP said “offering an uninspired and mechanistic education that teaches a very narrow world view with little exposure to broader intellectual currents. Certainly, global critical thinkers are not developed here.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay but what about the academics? That mostly seems to be missing from your post.

OP said “offering an uninspired and mechanistic education that teaches a very narrow world view with little exposure to broader intellectual currents. Certainly, global critical thinkers are not developed here.”

Yeah, but most of K-12 is not about developing a world view or being exposed to broader intellectual currents. And I don’t need the schools to turn my kids into global critical thinkers; I can do that. I need math, science, ELA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay but what about the academics? That mostly seems to be missing from your post.

OP said “offering an uninspired and mechanistic education that teaches a very narrow world view with little exposure to broader intellectual currents. Certainly, global critical thinkers are not developed here.”

Yeah, but most of K-12 is not about developing a world view or being exposed to broader intellectual currents. And I don’t need the schools to turn my kids into global critical thinkers; I can do that. I need math, science, ELA.

And therein lies the deep cultural chasm. I could not disagree more with every aspect of your statement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay but what about the academics? That mostly seems to be missing from your post.

OP said “offering an uninspired and mechanistic education that teaches a very narrow world view with little exposure to broader intellectual currents. Certainly, global critical thinkers are not developed here.”

Yeah, but most of K-12 is not about developing a world view or being exposed to broader intellectual currents. And I don’t need the schools to turn my kids into global critical thinkers; I can do that. I need math, science, ELA.

And therein lies the deep cultural chasm. I could not disagree more with every aspect of your statement.

Okay, so all we learned from this weird post is that you fundamentally disagree with pretty much every school district in America, and many in other countries too. Got it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Okay but what about the academics? That mostly seems to be missing from your post.

OP said “offering an uninspired and mechanistic education that teaches a very narrow world view with little exposure to broader intellectual currents. Certainly, global critical thinkers are not developed here.”

Yeah, but most of K-12 is not about developing a world view or being exposed to broader intellectual currents. And I don’t need the schools to turn my kids into global critical thinkers; I can do that. I need math, science, ELA.

And therein lies the deep cultural chasm. I could not disagree more with every aspect of your statement.

Okay, so all we learned from this weird post is that you fundamentally disagree with pretty much every school district in America, and many in other countries too. Got it.

LOL You think you did something there. Once again, thank you for so effectively embodying my very point. You are dismissed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Okay but what about the academics? That mostly seems to be missing from your post.

OP said “offering an uninspired and mechanistic education that teaches a very narrow world view with little exposure to broader intellectual currents. Certainly, global critical thinkers are not developed here.”

Yeah, but most of K-12 is not about developing a world view or being exposed to broader intellectual currents. And I don’t need the schools to turn my kids into global critical thinkers; I can do that. I need math, science, ELA.

And therein lies the deep cultural chasm. I could not disagree more with every aspect of your statement.

Okay, so all we learned from this weird post is that you fundamentally disagree with pretty much every school district in America, and many in other countries too. Got it.

LOL You think you did something there. Once again, thank you for so effectively embodying my very point. You are dismissed.

If you have an actual point to make, feel free to do so. Lots of buzzwords so far but you have yet to offer any sort of substantive critique, which is interesting given you accused LCPS of being devoid of substance.

Until then you just sound like a person on the corner yelling into the wind.

[Anonymous]

This sounds like chatGPT honestly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like chatGPT honestly

Agreed. I was thinking it was a high school student practicing their response to an essay prompt. Good vocabulary but no actual substance.

[Anonymous]

My LCPS senior took/is taking 10 APs and so far has only received 4's or 5's in them. She got a great SAT score and is headed to UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like chatGPT honestly

OMG I was thinking the same thing. Who even talks like that????