The only way to improve mcps is...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like an awesome idea! Be sure to be completely unspecific about your complaints, too!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like MCPS. Sorry.

Me too. Let's be friends.

Me tooo

[Anonymous]

I'd love to see a boycott, though I think only those people who can afford to take time off to stay home with the kids would participate. I guess the schools in Potomac might be impacted.

[Anonymous]

The only way to change MCPS is to elect a new school board. That is the point of accountability.

If you don't like the current MCPS, don't vote for the apple ballot.

[Anonymous]

I would say that the only way to improve MCPS would be to be willing to piss some parents off. Educational systems in our country have been designed for far too long to replicate society's distribution of knowledge, wealth, and power, by creating unequal outcomes across racial and socio-economic status. Meaningful educational change is going to threaten people, especially people with money and power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would say that the only way to improve MCPS would be to be willing to piss some parents off. Educational systems in our country have been designed for far too long to replicate society's distribution of knowledge, wealth, and power, by creating unequal outcomes across racial and socio-economic status. Meaningful educational change is going to threaten people, especially people with money and power.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would say that the only way to improve MCPS would be to be willing to piss some parents off. Educational systems in our country have been designed for far too long to replicate society's distribution of knowledge, wealth, and power, by creating unequal outcomes across racial and socio-economic status. Meaningful educational change is going to threaten people, especially people with money and power.

MCPS is pissing off parents -- specifically, the ones with money and power, posting on DCUM about how Curriculum 2.0 is designed to keep their high-achieving kids down and headed for failure (meaning community college).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say that the only way to improve MCPS would be to be willing to piss some parents off. Educational systems in our country have been designed for far too long to replicate society's distribution of knowledge, wealth, and power, by creating unequal outcomes across racial and socio-economic status. Meaningful educational change is going to threaten people, especially people with money and power.

MCPS is pissing off parents -- specifically, the ones with money and power, posting on DCUM about how Curriculum 2.0 is designed to keep their high-achieving kids down and headed for failure (meaning community college).

I agree with the money part, as for power, if they had any they would be making the change they want instead of wasting time posting on DCUM.
#hatersgonhate

[Anonymous]

We're simply leaving montgomery county. I bet there are schools out there that parents are happy with in MoCo, but in our neck of the woods the facilities are inadequate and long range planning totally botched things with respect to population growth and has left our community in a borderline crisis situation. The politics of it gets really old really fast, and even if the superintendent wanted to make improvements, any additional construction will take forever to be approved and completed.

[Anonymous]

I would say that the only way to improve MCPS would be to be willing to piss some parents off. Educational systems in our country have been designed for far too long to replicate society's distribution of knowledge, wealth, and power, by creating unequal outcomes across racial and socio-economic status. Meaningful educational change is going to threaten people, especially people with money and power.

Absolutely agree with this and 2.0 is a great example of exasperating the actual divide. Hiding the divide only serves people who work in MCPS. Its not different than giving kids passing grades when they can't read in high school. Who gets harmed? The poor kids get harmed.

Parents with money and education will complain but they will opt out for private or spend money on extra classes outside of class. 2.0 is making the achievement gap worse not better. The number of kids doing Kumon, Singapore or some other type of math course outside MCPS at my school is astonishing. They are learning math while kids just doing 2.0 are not. Guess who will score better on state-wide tests or national tests that MCPS can't suppress...the kids with supplementation or kids in privates. Guess who will still be at the bottom of the pack? The kids who can't afford this instruction. Its sad.

In an odd way, its actually a great time to be in Montgomery County if you have a high achieving student and can afford to get them real instruction outside of MCPS. There will be some kids in the middle with the "oh I don't care about whatever they are teaching, no homework, no challenge..fine by me.. so I have more time to spend on the soccer team or PTA crap" that will fall off from being any competition. At our school, there are not too many of these types but I'm some are out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Absolutely agree with this and 2.0 is a great example of exasperating the actual divide. Hiding the divide only serves people who work in MCPS. Its not different than giving kids passing grades when they can't read in high school. Who gets harmed? The poor kids get harmed.

Parents with money and education will complain but they will opt out for private or spend money on extra classes outside of class. 2.0 is making the achievement gap worse not better. The number of kids doing Kumon, Singapore or some other type of math course outside MCPS at my school is astonishing. They are learning math while kids just doing 2.0 are not. Guess who will score better on state-wide tests or national tests that MCPS can't suppress...the kids with supplementation or kids in privates. Guess who will still be at the bottom of the pack? The kids who can't afford this instruction. Its sad.

In an odd way, its actually a great time to be in Montgomery County if you have a high achieving student and can afford to get them real instruction outside of MCPS. There will be some kids in the middle with the "oh I don't care about whatever they are teaching, no homework, no challenge..fine by me.. so I have more time to spend on the soccer team or PTA crap" that will fall off from being any competition. At our school, there are not too many of these types but I'm some are out there.

I'm certainly exasperated.

Not least by the claims of the high-SES posters on DCUM that their real problem with Curriculum 2.0 is how it will harm the ESOL/FARMS kids. The high-SES posters are concerned! They are so concerned!

[Anonymous]

Many of the high SES posters in this area strongly support educational initiatives. Many came from countries with more advanced educational systems and this is why they are high SES families. The high SES families that don't care about the low SES just go to private and vote against any of their tax dollars going to education.

Curriculum 2.0 only serves the status quo administrators in MCPS that created it. They live in a bubble and are desperately trying to pretend it didn't pop. They do not care one bit about any low SES student. They care about themselves. Its a blunder, play and simple. They screwed up. They should get fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of the high SES posters in this area strongly support educational initiatives. Many came from countries with more advanced educational systems and this is why they are high SES families. The high SES families that don't care about the low SES just go to private and vote against any of their tax dollars going to education.

Curriculum 2.0 only serves the status quo administrators in MCPS that created it. They live in a bubble and are desperately trying to pretend it didn't pop. They do not care one bit about any low SES student. They care about themselves. Its a blunder, play and simple. They screwed up. They should get fired.

Snort.

I apologize that this is not a very articulate thing to say. But really, it's all I have to say.

[Anonymous]

Snort.

I apologize that this is not a very articulate thing to say. But really, it's all I have to say.

Don't choke. Calling 911 will not save you.

[Anonymous]

It would work because it would generate national press attention and could hurt Starr's career. So OP, do you have the bandwidth to start a litany of complaints here, organize and then we could stage a protest day?

My main complaints are:
1) stupid Is,Ps, ESs
2) teachers who can't spell, don't correct homework, etc and lack of clear process for parents to complain about their incompetence without being labeled a "troublemaker"
3) worksheet driven curriculum - no books till past 6th grade, apparently - oh, one book, I forgot -