How quickly can MCPS fix the curriculum nightmare?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here, looks like we are going back to textbooks. I've already started getting textbooks from my staff development teacher to begin looking at before the summer hits.

1. I hope this means MS students get to use a backpack during the school day.

2. MS parents, prepare your kids now to remember to bring the textbooks home! Not being able to complete homework or study for a test because you forgot your textbook is a grade killer.

What are you talking about? My DC is a junior, has been issued a couple books, but is not expected to bring them to school.

Those of us who grew up here were not issued books to keep at home. We carried them back and forth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

I feel bad for her. She sounds desperate. I think in one post she said her son is failing. If her kid is really struggling, she may have an impulse to blame it all on the curriculum. I mean, there are definitely problems with the curriculum, but most kids aren’t failing. So something must be going on that’s making her hysterical.

The report says only 30% of student work samples demonstrated mastery of concepts, and you think exactly one parent has noticed a problem. You think she's hysterical or scapegoating when 70% of parents are in the same boat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here, looks like we are going back to textbooks. I've already started getting textbooks from my staff development teacher to begin looking at before the summer hits.

Our child was given a math workbook that is actually decent but teacher rarely uses it. They'd rather the kids play online games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

I feel bad for her. She sounds desperate. I think in one post she said her son is failing. If her kid is really struggling, she may have an impulse to blame it all on the curriculum. I mean, there are definitely problems with the curriculum, but most kids aren’t failing. So something must be going on that’s making her hysterical.

The report says only 30% of student work samples demonstrated mastery of concepts, and you think exactly one parent has noticed a problem. You think she's hysterical or scapegoating when 70% of parents are in the same boat?

I took her post to mean her kid is getting failing grades. That’s stressful. Getting Ds and Es on a report card is what I think of as failing. That’s not happening for 70% of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here, looks like we are going back to textbooks. I've already started getting textbooks from my staff development teacher to begin looking at before the summer hits.

1. I hope this means MS students get to use a backpack during the school day.

2. MS parents, prepare your kids now to remember to bring the textbooks home! Not being able to complete homework or study for a test because you forgot your textbook is a grade killer.

What are you talking about? My DC is a junior, has been issued a couple books, but is not expected to bring them to school.

Those of us who grew up here were not issued books to keep at home. We carried them back and forth.

It hasn't worked that way in a while. I did grow up doing the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

I feel bad for her. She sounds desperate. I think in one post she said her son is failing. If her kid is really struggling, she may have an impulse to blame it all on the curriculum. I mean, there are definitely problems with the curriculum, but most kids aren’t failing. So something must be going on that’s making her hysterical.

The report says only 30% of student work samples demonstrated mastery of concepts, and you think exactly one parent has noticed a problem. You think she's hysterical or scapegoating when 70% of parents are in the same boat?

I took her post to mean her kid is getting failing grades. That’s stressful. Getting Ds and Es on a report card is what I think of as failing. That’s not happening for 70% of kids.

Grades don’t matter if you’re not mastering the concepts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't speak for high school only elementary school. I'd gather that HS will continue with 2.0 but most teachers at the high school level use a mix of math curriculum pre 2.0 believe it or not. If you are at a school where there are a lot of older mature teachers, those teachers may only bother to thrown in a 2.0 lesson when they are getting observed. Most times they have enough materials if they have been teaching for 10+ years.

Not in my experience, MS used nothing but 2.0 packets for HS level math. Blair algebra 2 teachers did the same. May have been 10-year veterans, didn't seem to matter.

[Anonymous]

My kid's algebra teacher says she teaches 2009 algebra, and has gotten in trouble at least 2 times this year for not following curriculum 2 and was turned in by another teacher on one of the occasions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

Totally agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

Totally agree.

Do you really think one person could generate this much upset? The audit is real and it’s scathing. Stop living in denial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

Totally agree.

Do you really think one person could generate this much upset? The audit is real and it’s scathing. Stop living in denial.

So they’re admitting things should change. Your issue with that is... ?..

[Anonymous]

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Do you really think one person could generate this much upset? The audit is real and it’s scathing. Stop living in denial.

I read the audit summary. Here's what I got out of it:

1. MCPS does regular curriculum reviews.
2. This elementary-school curriculum has problems.
3. Teachers don't like this curriculum.
4. MCPS should look at other curricula that already exist.
5. Implementation of the new curriculum will require extensive teacher training.

Can anybody post links to previous curriculum reviews?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

Totally agree.

Do you really think one person could generate this much upset? The audit is real and it’s scathing. Stop living in denial.

So they’re admitting things should change. Your issue with that is... ?..

Kids who have been subjected to a failing curriculum have a woefully deficient education, and we don’t trust them to really fix it, considering the same exact people are choosing and implementing the new curriculum. Admitting there’s a problem isn’t enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

I feel bad for her. She sounds desperate. I think in one post she said her son is failing. If her kid is really struggling, she may have an impulse to blame it all on the curriculum. I mean, there are definitely problems with the curriculum, but most kids aren’t failing. So something must be going on that’s making her hysterical.

She details some of it in the “MCPS failed my child” post. But she’s posting everywhere about the disastrous nature of MCPS and she sounds on the edge. She’s in the private school forum, the VA schools forum. I haven’t checked but she’s probably in the food and restaurants forum complaining about how MCPS is making her food taste bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically. If I have a 12 year old, should I start looking at private school?
But IS THERE ANYTHING that we parents can do to get the ball moving faster?
Young minds don't have time for them to strategize and plan forever.

No.

Or rather, yes, if that's what you want to do.

(Really, I don't understand this sudden outbreak of "MCPS-ruined-my-children's-future-and-we-must-now-all-flee-at-once" posts. Did your child start MCPS in kindergarten? What have you been doing between then and now?)

From the writing style, a lot of them seem to be from the same person (the one who posted this AM about how MCPS ruined her son’s education).

I feel bad for her. She sounds desperate. I think in one post she said her son is failing. If her kid is really struggling, she may have an impulse to blame it all on the curriculum. I mean, there are definitely problems with the curriculum, but most kids aren’t failing. So something must be going on that’s making her hysterical.

She details some of it in the “MCPS failed my child” post. But she’s posting everywhere about the disastrous nature of MCPS and she sounds on the edge. She’s in the private school forum, the VA schools forum. I haven’t checked but she’s probably in the food and restaurants forum complaining about how MCPS is making her food taste bad.

The MCPS issues have been mentioned once in the private school forum, so i call BS.