Did you waste your money buying a house to get access to MCPS?

[Anonymous]

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Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

Those are silly assumptions. Why would you make them? I don't work for MCPS, I have two kids in MCPS, and my kids' education in MCPS has been fine so far. Perfect? No, but I don't expect perfection.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your child?

have you read the audit? Read it, and then come back and tell me it's fine.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your specific child?

my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With the recent news about the failure of 2.0, I wonder what we did when we bought our house to send our kids to MCPS.
My kids fall smack dab in the wave of 2.0. They are 13 and 14. They got a heavy dose of 2.0 and any changes that are planned won’t gelp them one bit.
It has been years of complaining, tutoring, frustration and a stint at a private school that we couldn’t afford.
The only upside for me is if they fix the schools (I can’t imagine it getting any worse), my property value will probably improve.
I feel as if my kids were cheated and as a parent, I was exhausted.
My distrust will persist because these public servants betrayed us.

I am just really sorry, OP. I hope your kids have a more positive HS experience, and are well prepared for whatever they choose to do in life.

We have a much younger child who will start MCPS with the new curriculum. We signed a contract on a larger home in our neighborhood--as well as an expensive renovation of that home--weeks before the audit came out. We weren't too concerned with the overcrowding at our school (the outcomes are still good) or the Chromebook use (we figure they'll work out those kinks eventually), but the curriculum audit floored us. It was just so scathing.

Now we're left figuring out what to do. We'll watch what MCPS does and enroll our kid if the new curriculum seems better. If not, then what? We can't exactly easily sell a house we will have been in for just a couple of years. Private school would be a huge sacrifice for us. Plus, we love our neighborhood. We walked the streets when we bought our first home here after I got pregnant, talking about how great a place this will be to raise our daughter. The families are friendly, the neighborhood is safe ... it's almost a cloyingly idyllic suburban community. I am furious that MCPS's ineptitude will likely throw our family (and many others) into a very precarious state.

Similar situation. We live in Bethesda and just did a big renovation. Oldest child is about to start kindergarten. The way I look at it is that a lot of education comes from home, so if MCPS is failing, we'll just be sure to sit down more than usual with our children to teach them on our own in the evenings. We'll hire tutors if necessary.

[Anonymous]

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my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

What didn't your child learn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

Those are silly assumptions. Why would you make them? I don't work for MCPS, I have two kids in MCPS, and my kids' education in MCPS has been fine so far. Perfect? No, but I don't expect perfection.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your child?

have you read the audit? Read it, and then come back and tell me it's fine.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your specific child?

my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

Did your kid do really badly on PARCC and MAP? Do you think most upper/middle income parents have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing?

[Anonymous]

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my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

What didn't your child learn?

you really don't want to accept the truth, do you?

we had to teach her how to edit her written work. we had to teach her the rules of grammar and proper spelling. etc. etc. etc.

why are you in such denial?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

Those are silly assumptions. Why would you make them? I don't work for MCPS, I have two kids in MCPS, and my kids' education in MCPS has been fine so far. Perfect? No, but I don't expect perfection.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your child?

have you read the audit? Read it, and then come back and tell me it's fine.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your specific child?

my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

Did your kid do really badly on PARCC and MAP? Do you think most upper/middle income parents have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing?

no, my kid did well on PARCC and MAP. that's not the point. read the freaking audit. it says right there how deficient the curriculum is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With the recent news about the failure of 2.0, I wonder what we did when we bought our house to send our kids to MCPS.
My kids fall smack dab in the wave of 2.0. They are 13 and 14. They got a heavy dose of 2.0 and any changes that are planned won’t gelp them one bit.
It has been years of complaining, tutoring, frustration and a stint at a private school that we couldn’t afford.
The only upside for me is if they fix the schools (I can’t imagine it getting any worse), my property value will probably improve.
I feel as if my kids were cheated and as a parent, I was exhausted.
My distrust will persist because these public servants betrayed us.

Maybe spend more time working with your kids then complaining about MCPS on DCUM. That shit is helpful to no one and no system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With the recent news about the failure of 2.0, I wonder what we did when we bought our house to send our kids to MCPS.
My kids fall smack dab in the wave of 2.0. They are 13 and 14. They got a heavy dose of 2.0 and any changes that are planned won’t gelp them one bit.
It has been years of complaining, tutoring, frustration and a stint at a private school that we couldn’t afford.
The only upside for me is if they fix the schools (I can’t imagine it getting any worse), my property value will probably improve.
I feel as if my kids were cheated and as a parent, I was exhausted.
My distrust will persist because these public servants betrayed us.

Maybe spend more time working with your kids then complaining about MCPS on DCUM. That shit is helpful to no one and no system.

Not true. Informed parents can decide.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is it with the spate of MCPS HAS BETRAYED US AND RUINED OUR LIVES threads on DCUM? Is this a regular spring break thing?

There are definitely a bunch of doom and gloom MCPS posters who resurface every now and then.

+1 MCPS has issues but many of these posters aren’t constructive. They’re starting posts on other forums (Virginia schools) that turn into rants about McPS. They need to run for the Board so they can change the things they feel are so badly mismanaged or find a job so they can stop whining.

Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

NP, you obiviously went to a school system that failed you pp. You made a lot of dumbass assumptions above. Guess what, there are a lot of MCPS parents who do not feel their kids have been failed. Do people have concerns, complaints, suggestions, YES. But a lot of us are good with what we have and do not feel like their kids have a doom and gloom future spent complaining about shit on the internet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

What didn't your child learn?

you really don't want to accept the truth, do you?

we had to teach her how to edit her written work. we had to teach her the rules of grammar and proper spelling. etc. etc. etc.

why are you in such denial?

I believe that your child in MCPS didn't learn those things. Now will you believe that my children in MCPS did learn those things?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

Those are silly assumptions. Why would you make them? I don't work for MCPS, I have two kids in MCPS, and my kids' education in MCPS has been fine so far. Perfect? No, but I don't expect perfection.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your child?

have you read the audit? Read it, and then come back and tell me it's fine.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your specific child?

my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

Hmmm, my kid can read, do math and was well prepared coming out of elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

Those are silly assumptions. Why would you make them? I don't work for MCPS, I have two kids in MCPS, and my kids' education in MCPS has been fine so far. Perfect? No, but I don't expect perfection.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your child?

have you read the audit? Read it, and then come back and tell me it's fine.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your specific child?

my child did not learn foundational skills in reading, writing, and math in school. we have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing. I am very concerned about my child's preparation for middle school and high school.

if you actually read the audit, you would see that Johns Hopkins concluded the curriculum does not teach foundational skills. That has shown itself to be true with my child, and many others. MCPS teachers have almost universally said the same thing. I'm sorry if you're in denial, but education experts, teachers, and many parents disagree with you.

Did your kid do really badly on PARCC and MAP? Do you think most upper/middle income parents have had to spend hours upon hours supplementing?

no, my kid did well on PARCC and MAP. that's not the point. read the freaking audit. it says right there how deficient the curriculum is.

I did read the report. I'm glad they are changing the curriculum, but I wouldn't say my kids didn't learn foundational skills under 2.0. They are in 4th and 7th, and 2.0 was implemented when the 7th grader was in 2nd. DCs seems to be doing fine in school. They do learn to edit their work, even in 4th grade. They have spelling tests and do learn grammar. They write drafts, and I see markups in the drafts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With the recent news about the failure of 2.0, I wonder what we did when we bought our house to send our kids to MCPS.
My kids fall smack dab in the wave of 2.0. They are 13 and 14. They got a heavy dose of 2.0 and any changes that are planned won’t gelp them one bit.
It has been years of complaining, tutoring, frustration and a stint at a private school that we couldn’t afford.
The only upside for me is if they fix the schools (I can’t imagine it getting any worse), my property value will probably improve.
I feel as if my kids were cheated and as a parent, I was exhausted.
My distrust will persist because these public servants betrayed us.

Maybe spend more time working with your kids then complaining about MCPS on DCUM. That shit is helpful to no one and no system.

Not true. Informed parents can decide.

A complaint is not information. You spouting crap about and entire system failing everyone's kids is not information.IT IS OPINION! You do not know the difference.

[Anonymous]

That's great that your kids totally loved 2.0. Johns Hopkins, nearly all the teachers, and many parents have concluded that it utterly failed, so you are the exception.

So go have fun with your super well-educated kids. Over here, we're worried about the real deficiencies in the curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With the recent news about the failure of 2.0, I wonder what we did when we bought our house to send our kids to MCPS.
My kids fall smack dab in the wave of 2.0. They are 13 and 14. They got a heavy dose of 2.0 and any changes that are planned won’t gelp them one bit.
It has been years of complaining, tutoring, frustration and a stint at a private school that we couldn’t afford.
The only upside for me is if they fix the schools (I can’t imagine it getting any worse), my property value will probably improve.
I feel as if my kids were cheated and as a parent, I was exhausted.
My distrust will persist because these public servants betrayed us.

Maybe spend more time working with your kids then complaining about MCPS on DCUM. That shit is helpful to no one and no system.

Not true. Informed parents can decide.

A complaint is not information. You spouting crap about and entire system failing everyone's kids is not information.IT IS OPINION! You do not know the difference.

So the audit is just an opinion? Why don't you call up Johns Hopkins and tell them you think they're wrong.