MCPS has Plans!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lowering the curriculum didn’t help any student in MCPS. Loosing a whole teaching day really hurt students.

Those with means in Montgomery County supplement. Those who don’t, fall further behind. There’s nothing special about the teaching at the W schools. W schools often have higher class sizes than the Title I schools. The difference is that W parents can afford private resources when MCPS is falling short. This has been the problem in Montgomery County for at least 40 years.

Many parents do it themselves when we say supplement. We 100% did it on our own in ES. In MS, we do pay for summer math classes but a parent still provides supports. Come HS, we may have to pay but K-5th its easy to grab a few workbooks (baring you don't have educational/academic issues and speak/read English).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lowering the curriculum didn’t help any student in MCPS. Loosing a whole teaching day really hurt students.

Those with means in Montgomery County supplement. Those who don’t, fall further behind. There’s nothing special about the teaching at the W schools. W schools often have higher class sizes than the Title I schools. The difference is that W parents can afford private resources when MCPS is falling short. This has been the problem in Montgomery County for at least 40 years.

Many parents do it themselves when we say supplement. We 100% did it on our own in ES. In MS, we do pay for summer math classes but a parent still provides supports. Come HS, we may have to pay but K-5th its easy to grab a few workbooks (baring you don't have educational/academic issues and speak/read English).

Yes, the W's are pretty much the same as any school any UMC kid does about the same at any school from what I've seen because they have support at home. It really has nothing to do with the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lowering the curriculum didn’t help any student in MCPS. Loosing a whole teaching day really hurt students.

Those with means in Montgomery County supplement. Those who don’t, fall further behind. There’s nothing special about the teaching at the W schools. W schools often have higher class sizes than the Title I schools. The difference is that W parents can afford private resources when MCPS is falling short. This has been the problem in Montgomery County for at least 40 years.

Many parents do it themselves when we say supplement. We 100% did it on our own in ES. In MS, we do pay for summer math classes but a parent still provides supports. Come HS, we may have to pay but K-5th its easy to grab a few workbooks (baring you don't have educational/academic issues and speak/read English).

Yes, the W's are pretty much the same as any school any UMC kid does about the same at any school from what I've seen because they have support at home. It really has nothing to do with the schools.

One W school might be different from the rest at least in the near future. The Churchill principal left to be an AP after only 3 years on the job - not enough time to see a whole class of students through high school. There’s no leadership in the school right now. God knows how teacher vacancies will be filled.

Dr. McKnight says communication is part of her 100 day goals however Churchill has not had an update on the search for a new principal in a month. The original interviews was supposed to be on June 18th but those plans were scrapped for a new MCPS holiday.

Perhaps Dr. McKnight’s vision doesn’t include W schools like Churchill or she needs to check with her staff to see why they aren’t implementing her 100 day plans. Either way, a 100 day plan is meaningless unless it filters down to the school level from Central Office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lowering the curriculum didn’t help any student in MCPS. Loosing a whole teaching day really hurt students.

Those with means in Montgomery County supplement. Those who don’t, fall further behind. There’s nothing special about the teaching at the W schools. W schools often have higher class sizes than the Title I schools. The difference is that W parents can afford private resources when MCPS is falling short. This has been the problem in Montgomery County for at least 40 years.

Many parents do it themselves when we say supplement. We 100% did it on our own in ES. In MS, we do pay for summer math classes but a parent still provides supports. Come HS, we may have to pay but K-5th its easy to grab a few workbooks (baring you don't have educational/academic issues and speak/read English).

Yes, the W's are pretty much the same as any school any UMC kid does about the same at any school from what I've seen because they have support at home. It really has nothing to do with the schools.

One W school might be different from the rest at least in the near future. The Churchill principal left to be an AP after only 3 years on the job - not enough time to see a whole class of students through high school. There’s no leadership in the school right now. God knows how teacher vacancies will be filled.

Dr. McKnight says communication is part of her 100 day goals however Churchill has not had an update on the search for a new principal in a month. The original interviews was supposed to be on June 18th but those plans were scrapped for a new MCPS holiday.

Perhaps Dr. McKnight’s vision doesn’t include W schools like Churchill or she needs to check with her staff to see why they aren’t implementing her 100 day plans. Either way, a 100 day plan is meaningless unless it filters down to the school level from Central Office.

Sheesh Karen settle down. They're supposed to announce someone in a couple days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lowering the curriculum didn’t help any student in MCPS. Loosing a whole teaching day really hurt students.

Those with means in Montgomery County supplement. Those who don’t, fall further behind. There’s nothing special about the teaching at the W schools. W schools often have higher class sizes than the Title I schools. The difference is that W parents can afford private resources when MCPS is falling short. This has been the problem in Montgomery County for at least 40 years.

Many parents do it themselves when we say supplement. We 100% did it on our own in ES. In MS, we do pay for summer math classes but a parent still provides supports. Come HS, we may have to pay but K-5th its easy to grab a few workbooks (baring you don't have educational/academic issues and speak/read English).

Yes, the W's are pretty much the same as any school any UMC kid does about the same at any school from what I've seen because they have support at home. It really has nothing to do with the schools.

One W school might be different from the rest at least in the near future. The Churchill principal left to be an AP after only 3 years on the job - not enough time to see a whole class of students through high school. There’s no leadership in the school right now. God knows how teacher vacancies will be filled.

Dr. McKnight says communication is part of her 100 day goals however Churchill has not had an update on the search for a new principal in a month. The original interviews was supposed to be on June 18th but those plans were scrapped for a new MCPS holiday.

Perhaps Dr. McKnight’s vision doesn’t include W schools like Churchill or she needs to check with her staff to see why they aren’t implementing her 100 day plans. Either way, a 100 day plan is meaningless unless it filters down to the school level from Central Office.

Sheesh Karen settle down. They're supposed to announce someone in a couple days.

Morale of the staff is at an all time low. There is no leadership at the school. At least Central Office should be stepping up. Mrs. Heckert wasn’t given enough support to be successful. How is the leadership in Central Office going to support the new hire?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Morale of the staff is at an all time low. There is no leadership at the school. At least Central Office should be stepping up. Mrs. Heckert wasn’t given enough support to be successful. How is the leadership in Central Office going to support the new hire?

What "support" wasn't given?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Morale of the staff is at an all time low. There is no leadership at the school. At least Central Office should be stepping up. Mrs. Heckert wasn’t given enough support to be successful. How is the leadership in Central Office going to support the new hire?

What "support" wasn't given?

There hasn’t been a clear explanation for why she left. However, going from principal to AP is a career step backwards. Wouldn’t the July 1st anniversary have given her tenure at that position? Why not support her continuation for a fourth year?

Obviously there were problems at Churchill before Mrs. Heckert and some problems got worse under Mrs. Heckert. However, half of her time at Churchill was during an unprecedented pandemic. It seems like Central Office would make a photo op or give a quote when a newsworthy event occurred but they rarely took the time to know the community or help Mrs. Heckert make positive change.

On the last community forum with Dr. Moran, he said it normally takes a principal 7 years for their vision to be implemented. Then why the change now? Why do so when school leadership is needed for the return to in person learning? It seems like a drastic move that retraining and leadership support from Central Office could have led to a better outcome for the community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Morale of the staff is at an all time low. There is no leadership at the school. At least Central Office should be stepping up. Mrs. Heckert wasn’t given enough support to be successful. How is the leadership in Central Office going to support the new hire?

What "support" wasn't given?

There hasn’t been a clear explanation for why she left. However, going from principal to AP is a career step backwards. Wouldn’t the July 1st anniversary have given her tenure at that position? Why not support her continuation for a fourth year?

Obviously there were problems at Churchill before Mrs. Heckert and some problems got worse under Mrs. Heckert. However, half of her time at Churchill was during an unprecedented pandemic. It seems like Central Office would make a photo op or give a quote when a newsworthy event occurred but they rarely took the time to know the community or help Mrs. Heckert make positive change.

On the last community forum with Dr. Moran, he said it normally takes a principal 7 years for their vision to be implemented. Then why the change now? Why do so when school leadership is needed for the return to in person learning? It seems like a drastic move that retraining and leadership support from Central Office could have led to a better outcome for the community.

That community is very demanding. They probably complained and complained and that was the end of her tenure.

[Anonymous]

If parents are concerned about their child’s education, they are labeled as complainers.

If parents live in 20854, they must have money. Therefore their schools get less resources than other schools because they can afford to supplement.

If a child doesn’t succeed at Churchill, it must be the parents or the child didn’t try.

There are many stereotypes that lead to a lack of understanding between MCPS and the community. Very few MCPS employees can afford to live in Potomac so they judge from a lack of understanding of the community. Fact is that many families are highly educated so they place a high value of their time and money into the education of their children.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if traditional school expectations are coming back next school year?

Are students going to be getting 0s if work not done?

Are there late penalties if work is not done on time?

Regular curriculum standards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if traditional school expectations are coming back next school year?

Are students going to be getting 0s if work not done?

Are there late penalties if work is not done on time?

Regular curriculum standards?

Can't speak to the first two, but MCPS has said next year will include remediation for missed work from the last two years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if traditional school expectations are coming back next school year?

Are students going to be getting 0s if work not done?

Are there late penalties if work is not done on time?

Regular curriculum standards?

Can't speak to the first two, but MCPS has said next year will include remediation for missed work from the last two years.

How can two years be remediated while moving forward with the current year’s curriculum? What happens to the child who doesn’t need remediation? Have them sit back and wait for their peers to catch up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if traditional school expectations are coming back next school year?

Are students going to be getting 0s if work not done?

Are there late penalties if work is not done on time?

Regular curriculum standards?

Can't speak to the first two, but MCPS has said next year will include remediation for missed work from the last two years.

How can two years be remediated while moving forward with the current year’s curriculum? What happens to the child who doesn’t need remediation? Have them sit back and wait for their peers to catch up?

I just don't want my kids education being slowed down because some kids made 0 effort over the past 1.5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if traditional school expectations are coming back next school year?

Are students going to be getting 0s if work not done?

Are there late penalties if work is not done on time?

Regular curriculum standards?

Can't speak to the first two, but MCPS has said next year will include remediation for missed work from the last two years.

How can two years be remediated while moving forward with the current year’s curriculum? What happens to the child who doesn’t need remediation? Have them sit back and wait for their peers to catch up?

If you're overly concerned, there's a discussion: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/985491.page

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How about using the proper language? Your child has dyslexia....rather than a ‘de-coding’ issue? How about using the more rigorous neuro-psych exam rather than the cheapest? How about having a trained professional rather than a ‘resource teacher’ or a paraprofessional - which is an oxymoron. Some struggle with the English language. Utterly morally bankrupt. Dr. McKnight came from the system... do you honestly think she will change anything?

"Dyslexia" is pretty meaningless by itself as there are so many ways a person can be dyslexic.

Ah, sorry MCPS employee defending the indefensible. When you tell a parent dyslexia it means expensive remediation: OG tutoring. What other profession besides law tries to obfuscate a diagnosis with terms they make up? It is a wait to fail model with no remediation. Only because of decoding dyslexia is MCPS putting window dressing in a house fire with a week of OG training and a lot of press releases.