Thank god freshman year of HS is done!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a tough one because mcps doesn't support students.
It shouldn't have been tough.
Spend your summer mentally and emotionally ally preparing for 3 worse years.

How did it not support your student this year?

Mcps operates under the theory that children are adults. There is a classroom. As many students can be squeezed into that classroom as space allows. Classes are as large as some college classes. If your student is motivated, intelligent, has adult like executive functioning skills and had the social support and financial resources to take care of any short comings that prevent them from doing well- then they will do well
If not- screw you, you lazy pos!

Wow you captured it.

Thank goodness the year is done. Time to recuperate.

[Anonymous]

Tough year for my ninth grader too. What was challenging for us was the many different rules teachers had, many of which seemed totally inconsistent with the McPS reputation of “oh, stuff is rretakable, etc.”. Examples:

Child was sick for an entire week. Came back and trying to make up tests from 7 classes at lunch, while still recovering. One teacher had a sjngle day for test makeup. Kid missed it and was given a zero on the test, no retake.

Lots of teachers with No ippprtunity for late turn in of Hw, even with a 504. If you forget to turn it in at start of class, it’s a zero.

A couple of teachers who didn’t put grades into gradebook until day before interim grades. Realized then that she didn’t have an important assignment my kid thought he had turned in, but no chance to turn in late because it’s already interim deadline.

One teacher who was just …. Mean and arbitrary. A bunch of kids dropped class and a bunch of parents have complained and I think teacher is in a disciplinary process but it made for a really hard year with a lot of mental energy expended trying to avoid minimize conflict with teacher and figure out their expectations.

In general, I think McPS is pretty good but it is really a lot to deal with…

[Anonymous]

Definitely a parent at RM

[Anonymous]

Every transition year is difficult, no matter where your child is, private or public.

K, 6th, 9th, college freshman year, are all difficult adjustments. Or other transition grades in other school systems.

- parent of young adults and teens.

[Anonymous]

Glad it is done too. 2 AP classes.
Plus an over confident DS who thought he will get an A without completing all the assignments. He only focused on the higher percentage assignments. got like an 89. something and teacher did not round up. He begged her to round it up.

It was a good lesson of not taking shortcuts.. hope he gets it.

[Anonymous]

I’m with you, OP. Whew!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad it is done too. 2 AP classes.
Plus an over confident DS who thought he will get an A without completing all the assignments. He only focused on the higher percentage assignments. got like an 89. something and teacher did not round up. He begged her to round it up.

It was a good lesson of not taking shortcuts.. hope he gets it.

I’m a teacher and will never round up if kids are missing work. Too many think “it’s only 10%” - but at the end, when you wish you had 1% more … it turns out that it mattered.

Flip side is that when a kid is always on top of their work, never late, and consistent scores on quizzes/tests, then I will always double check and likely bump because they might have lost one or two points due to misreading a question or me grading strictly, but actually demonstrated knowledge of the higher letter grade.

[Anonymous]

We thought MCPS was wonderful. My freshman got all As in every class! He also is a fine trombone player and won many awards for his trombone playing.

[Anonymous]

My sophomore had a great year. Freshman year was good too. I'm a little bit worried about 4 AP's next year but we shall see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough year for my ninth grader too. What was challenging for us was the many different rules teachers had, many of which seemed totally inconsistent with the McPS reputation of “oh, stuff is rretakable, etc.”. Examples:

Child was sick for an entire week. Came back and trying to make up tests from 7 classes at lunch, while still recovering. One teacher had a sjngle day for test makeup. Kid missed it and was given a zero on the test, no retake.

Lots of teachers with No ippprtunity for late turn in of Hw, even with a 504. If you forget to turn it in at start of class, it’s a zero.

A couple of teachers who didn’t put grades into gradebook until day before interim grades. Realized then that she didn’t have an important assignment my kid thought he had turned in, but no chance to turn in late because it’s already interim deadline.

One teacher who was just …. Mean and arbitrary. A bunch of kids dropped class and a bunch of parents have complained and I think teacher is in a disciplinary process but it made for a really hard year with a lot of mental energy expended trying to avoid minimize conflict with teacher and figure out their expectations.

In general, I think McPS is pretty good but it is really a lot to deal with…

+1
Disorganized teachers, child who was out like PP's for a lengthy illness and the craziness of trying to make it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough year for my ninth grader too. What was challenging for us was the many different rules teachers had, many of which seemed totally inconsistent with the McPS reputation of “oh, stuff is rretakable, etc.”. Examples:

Child was sick for an entire week. Came back and trying to make up tests from 7 classes at lunch, while still recovering. One teacher had a sjngle day for test makeup. Kid missed it and was given a zero on the test, no retake.

Lots of teachers with No ippprtunity for late turn in of Hw, even with a 504. If you forget to turn it in at start of class, it’s a zero.

A couple of teachers who didn’t put grades into gradebook until day before interim grades. Realized then that she didn’t have an important assignment my kid thought he had turned in, but no chance to turn in late because it’s already interim deadline.

One teacher who was just …. Mean and arbitrary. A bunch of kids dropped class and a bunch of parents have complained and I think teacher is in a disciplinary process but it made for a really hard year with a lot of mental energy expended trying to avoid minimize conflict with teacher and figure out their expectations.

In general, I think McPS is pretty good but it is really a lot to deal with…

Us too. And, teachers who don't respond to emails (even if its a few days later when you try to work with them on the concerns for your child).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We thought MCPS was wonderful. My freshman got all As in every class! He also is a fine trombone player and won many awards for his trombone playing.

Lucky you. We aren't impressed with the music program and spend a lot of money on private music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad it is done too. 2 AP classes.
Plus an over confident DS who thought he will get an A without completing all the assignments. He only focused on the higher percentage assignments. got like an 89. something and teacher did not round up. He begged her to round it up.

It was a good lesson of not taking shortcuts.. hope he gets it.

I’m a teacher and will never round up if kids are missing work. Too many think “it’s only 10%” - but at the end, when you wish you had 1% more … it turns out that it mattered.

Flip side is that when a kid is always on top of their work, never late, and consistent scores on quizzes/tests, then I will always double check and likely bump because they might have lost one or two points due to misreading a question or me grading strictly, but actually demonstrated knowledge of the higher letter grade.

Mcps has reinforced terrible learning habits.
Until this year there was no point in doing dome addignments. They were low reward and a 50% was enough not to make a difference. Surprise! This year they talked you by an entire letter grade.

Thisnisnretakable so don't worry. Sorry that's notnretskable you should have studied. Teacher accepted this assignment 3 wreks late at the beginning of the quarter. Sorry that assignment is an hour overdue. You get a zero.
It's difficult enough for an adult to thrive in an inconsistent environment. Cruel for a child and reprehensible for a child on the spectrum or with adhd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We thought MCPS was wonderful. My freshman got all As in every class! He also is a fine trombone player and won many awards for his trombone playing.

Lucky you. We aren't impressed with the music program and spend a lot of money on private music.

Well, you probably have a second-rate trombone player. PP sounds like she has an elite trombone player in her household.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a tough one because mcps doesn't support students.
It shouldn't have been tough.
Spend your summer mentally and emotionally ally preparing for 3 worse years.

How did it not support your student this year?

Mcps operates under the theory that children are adults. There is a classroom. As many students can be squeezed into that classroom as space allows. Classes are as large as some college classes. If your student is motivated, intelligent, has adult like executive functioning skills and had the social support and financial resources to take care of any short comings that prevent them from doing well- then they will do well
If not- screw you, you lazy pos!

Does your kid have an IEP or a 504? Legally they have to help your kid. I’d raise hell if they were getting left behind.