How do the W school moms feel about the Ocean City, MD Elementary school being ranked best in Maryland?

[Anonymous]

OP is Moms4liberty trying to stir up something that is not

[Anonymous]

yawn. Big chip on your shoulder today OP?

[Anonymous]

I have friends that teach at the beach and they say it's like a time warm back to the late 80s and early 90's with Christmas trees in the school foyer around the holidays. They get results on MCAP because they do a ton of test prep and let's be honest, there are very few EML students and not too much diversity. White kids tend to always score better on these stupid state tests. I would much rather my children grow up in a more diverse area.

[Anonymous]

W teacher here - these lists have little to do with the teachers/education and more to do with the parents. Learning starts at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I take rankings with a LARGE grain of salt, because I know that schools with homogeneous middle class populations tend to score better. This is how schools outside of large metropolitan areas get ranked number 1.

MCPS is one of the nation's best school systems for kids with special needs and gifted kids: there are multiple special programs and magnets. DCUM tends to criticize them all and say they're insufficient, but I know that they're still better than what other public school systems have developed.

MCPS also deals with an large group of English learners, a large contingent who has arrived from Central America, but also, since we're close to Embassies and international institutions, some from educated, well-to-do foreign families.

This social hetereogeneity lowers scores. But I WANT that diversity. We are educated foreigners ourselves (not English learners, though) and we want a multi-cultural student body that brings various perspectives. One of my kids needed an IEP in school, and had services and accommodations. It was great. I don't think he would have received them so easily anywhere else. My other kid is gifted and has benefited from all the acceleration that her high school has been able to give her. She will take multivariable calculus and differential equations in 11th grade, and about 14 APs.

Despite all the handwringing about MCPS on DCUM, I know this is a great school system and I am happy to be here.

Not for gifted kids any longer once the changes are implemented. For special ed and low performing kids, yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares. W ES has become watered down and terrible.

—A W ES parent

That’s McKnight’s credit. Some W ESs still haven’t got rid of her assigned appointees and the rebuild of the school reputation and spirit would take longer.

She assigned a lot of new principals (her friends) who drove most of the existing teachers away and replaced them with new teachers with no experience.

Bingo. How do they show up at their school every morning knowing their "team" has no respect for them? I couldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the stupidest set of rankings. It’s like a buzzfeed listicle. Nothing more. And for the record, my DD attends one of these “top” schools. It’s probably directionally accurate but trying to parse the difference between the “top” and the next 10-20 elementary schools is meaningless.

It’s also a joke that OP thinks folks from the DC area care about Ocean City or some other resort town.

I'm moving there if they have good schools.

[Anonymous]

This thread and its replies are hilarious. People actually considering moving to OC because an elementary school ranks slightly higher?

[Anonymous]

lets be real, no ES parent is even looking at these scores or caring. The fact that OP even brought it up means they are just trying to stir up something.

[Anonymous]

I went to a low ranking, non-W MCPS school, and I'm doing just fine. So is everyone I have kept in touch with. These ratings are a joke.

[Anonymous]

I agree they are useless. If you look at the fine print, you’ll see the data is from 3+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bradley Hills is the best of MoCo coming in 5th place.
I know OCMD is looked down upon. Maybe I'll move there.
https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/elementary-schools/maryland

Why pick on moms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I take rankings with a LARGE grain of salt, because I know that schools with homogeneous middle class populations tend to score better. This is how schools outside of large metropolitan areas get ranked number 1.

MCPS is one of the nation's best school systems for kids with special needs and gifted kids: there are multiple special programs and magnets. DCUM tends to criticize them all and say they're insufficient, but I know that they're still better than what other public school systems have developed.

MCPS also deals with an large group of English learners, a large contingent who has arrived from Central America, but also, since we're close to Embassies and international institutions, some from educated, well-to-do foreign families.

This social hetereogeneity lowers scores. But I WANT that diversity. We are educated foreigners ourselves (not English learners, though) and we want a multi-cultural student body that brings various perspectives. One of my kids needed an IEP in school, and had services and accommodations. It was great. I don't think he would have received them so easily anywhere else. My other kid is gifted and has benefited from all the acceleration that her high school has been able to give her. She will take multivariable calculus and differential equations in 11th grade, and about 14 APs.

Despite all the handwringing about MCPS on DCUM, I know this is a great school system and I am happy to be here.

I’m a gifted parent of two kids that both score in the gifted range. I would say MCPS schools are terrible for gifted kids. I grew up in South Florida decades ago and the programs I had put MCPS to shame. If we had a little more money, I’d 100% send my kids to private school.

I’ve seen little programming and my kids almost never mention their teachers. The teachers almost consistently fail to inspire and supplement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take rankings with a LARGE grain of salt, because I know that schools with homogeneous middle class populations tend to score better. This is how schools outside of large metropolitan areas get ranked number 1.

MCPS is one of the nation's best school systems for kids with special needs and gifted kids: there are multiple special programs and magnets. DCUM tends to criticize them all and say they're insufficient, but I know that they're still better than what other public school systems have developed.

MCPS also deals with an large group of English learners, a large contingent who has arrived from Central America, but also, since we're close to Embassies and international institutions, some from educated, well-to-do foreign families.

This social hetereogeneity lowers scores. But I WANT that diversity. We are educated foreigners ourselves (not English learners, though) and we want a multi-cultural student body that brings various perspectives. One of my kids needed an IEP in school, and had services and accommodations. It was great. I don't think he would have received them so easily anywhere else. My other kid is gifted and has benefited from all the acceleration that her high school has been able to give her. She will take multivariable calculus and differential equations in 11th grade, and about 14 APs.

Despite all the handwringing about MCPS on DCUM, I know this is a great school system and I am happy to be here.

I’m a gifted parent of two kids that both score in the gifted range. I would say MCPS schools are terrible for gifted kids. I grew up in South Florida decades ago and the programs I had put MCPS to shame. If we had a little more money, I’d 100% send my kids to private school.

I’ve seen little programming and my kids almost never mention their teachers. The teachers almost consistently fail to inspire and supplement.

I wouldn't expect Florida today to be like Florida 30 years ago.

[Anonymous]

I’m a W mom. I can’t even figure out why I should care about this.