Help Build the Future of MCPS High School Programs

[Anonymous]

Is anyone attending the meeting for this? Can someone go and report back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone attending the meeting for this? Can someone go and report back?

I plan to attend and will report back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ooooh, I'd really love to see some innovative thinking and deep exploration of things that haven't been tried in MCPS.

How about NOT LEAVING SEX OFFENDERS IN THE CLASSROOM, working toilets, mold free buildings, lead free drinking fountains, curriculum materials that DON'T have a 30% error rate, and final exams?

I know, I know these things are a radical departure from MCPS but lets try something different. I also hear that some school systems actually focus on the students and see themselves as serving all the students. Again, I know -in MCPS its all about the admin employees -teachers and students are at the bottom of the barrel but imagine if you swapped that mentality? I hear some school districts surrounding us do this. Lets give it a try.

+1 million

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone attending the meeting for this? Can someone go and report back?

I plan to attend and will report back.

Thanks, I'm going to the one in Clarksburg in Feb and will report then.

[Anonymous]

If anyone goes to the meeting at Blair tonight can they post about it please. I am stuck at home cooking for ds’s school event

[Anonymous]

I attended the meeting tonight at Blair. MCPS asked for input on what programs and classes parents want for their kids in high school and to consider how our kids will work in the future or the types of jobs that will be available. We discussed what is working, not working with the current curriculum and options and suggestions on what could work and what obstacles need to be addressed, e.g., diversity access, transportation, budget, etc.

Dr. Navarro mentioned at the beginning of the meeting that the changes to high school programming are driven by the Metis Report (2015) and the Career Review report (2017). Specifically, whether or not the consortium model is working and if more can be done to match students and/or provide opportunities for careers after high school, e.g., Thomas Edison model.

MCPS admin plans to present to the board a proposal for new curriculum models, programs, etc. in June 2019 based on parent input and other stakeholders. Navarro emphasized that no decisions have been made despite rumors!

It seems like there will be significant changes based on the questions proposed to parents and the handout that listed successful options in other districts such as whole magnet schools, creating campuses, offering similar programs in all schools, online programs, etc.

[Anonymous]

Thanks PP

[Anonymous]

Many thank you’s to the poster who attended the Blair meeting tonight. I’d love to see MCPS have a whole school magnet program similar to the TJ program in Northern Virginia. I’m also interested in MCPS following after many successful school districts such as those in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. I’m excited to hear about the report in June 2019. I hope someone else will be able to make it to the Clarksburg session in February and the Richard Montgomery session in April 2019. In this way parents on here can compare notes of what’s being said at each session by Dr. Navarro and MCPS higher ups. As parents we need to hold them accountable in every way.

[Anonymous]

30 students per class caps for HS. Not 35-40. What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks PP

Métis report?? Didn’t that just say over and over too put more money towards farms and esol students to close the achievement gap?
Maybe their parents should be in MCPS for non-Hs grads as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many thank you’s to the poster who attended the Blair meeting tonight. I’d love to see MCPS have a whole school magnet program similar to the TJ program in Northern Virginia. I’m also interested in MCPS following after many successful school districts such as those in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. I’m excited to hear about the report in June 2019. I hope someone else will be able to make it to the Clarksburg session in February and the Richard Montgomery session in April 2019. In this way parents on here can compare notes of what’s being said at each session by Dr. Navarro and MCPS higher ups. As parents we need to hold them accountable in every way.

If you want to hold them accountable you should go to the meeting! There are not necessarily a lot of people interested in a traditional academic HS experience at these meetings. Don’t assume others will advocate your viewpoint. Go to the meetings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many thank you’s to the poster who attended the Blair meeting tonight. I’d love to see MCPS have a whole school magnet program similar to the TJ program in Northern Virginia. I’m also interested in MCPS following after many successful school districts such as those in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. I’m excited to hear about the report in June 2019. I hope someone else will be able to make it to the Clarksburg session in February and the Richard Montgomery session in April 2019. In this way parents on here can compare notes of what’s being said at each session by Dr. Navarro and MCPS higher ups. As parents we need to hold them accountable in every way.

Do you mean small wealthy non diverse towns with one or two Hugh schools and no gap to focus on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ooooh, I'd really love to see some innovative thinking and deep exploration of things that haven't been tried in MCPS.

How about NOT LEAVING SEX OFFENDERS IN THE CLASSROOM, working toilets, mold free buildings, lead free drinking fountains, curriculum materials that DON'T have a 30% error rate, and final exams?

I know, I know these things are a radical departure from MCPS but lets try something different. I also hear that some school systems actually focus on the students and see themselves as serving all the students. Again, I know -in MCPS its all about the admin employees -teachers and students are at the bottom of the barrel but imagine if you swapped that mentality? I hear some school districts surrounding us do this. Lets give it a try.

Yup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many thank you’s to the poster who attended the Blair meeting tonight. I’d love to see MCPS have a whole school magnet program similar to the TJ program in Northern Virginia. I’m also interested in MCPS following after many successful school districts such as those in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. I’m excited to hear about the report in June 2019. I hope someone else will be able to make it to the Clarksburg session in February and the Richard Montgomery session in April 2019. In this way parents on here can compare notes of what’s being said at each session by Dr. Navarro and MCPS higher ups. As parents we need to hold them accountable in every way.

Do you mean small wealthy non diverse towns with one or two Hugh schools and no gap to focus on?

Of course there will be a gap web. There are uneducated illiterate parents in the same huge country public school system with graduate school parents.

County needs to Teach To Potential each and every student. Not just the bottom— for which it also provides free medical and dental exams, counseling, 3 meals a day and weekends, free before and aftercare, free summer school, extra teachers, etc.
Results (proficiency scores) show all this extra money and attention and resources = same lousy scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many thank you’s to the poster who attended the Blair meeting tonight. I’d love to see MCPS have a whole school magnet program similar to the TJ program in Northern Virginia. I’m also interested in MCPS following after many successful school districts such as those in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. I’m excited to hear about the report in June 2019. I hope someone else will be able to make it to the Clarksburg session in February and the Richard Montgomery session in April 2019. In this way parents on here can compare notes of what’s being said at each session by Dr. Navarro and MCPS higher ups. As parents we need to hold them accountable in every way.

Do you mean small wealthy non diverse towns with one or two Hugh schools and no gap to focus on?

Half of BETHESDA wouldn’t do private school if MCPS was like those stellar public school districts. Kids are learning and challenging themselves there so well. MCPS will never be as good as a smaller town-led public school district with involved, educated parents.