Let us troll FCPS! What are MD public schools doing right? What are they doing wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new mission of MCPS is to feed children. Apparently they are doing this quite well. Educating them, not so much.

MCPS isn’t feeding my child, but she is being educated.

My HS twins are not being educated at their W school. Very little "work," no actual learning. Yet every weekend MCPS does a live call where they tell us about the 55,000 kids they've fed three meals a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new mission of MCPS is to feed children. Apparently they are doing this quite well. Educating them, not so much.

MCPS isn’t feeding my child, but she is being educated.

My HS twins are not being educated at their W school. Very little "work," no actual learning. Yet every weekend MCPS does a live call where they tell us about the 55,000 kids they've fed three meals a day.

I would say feeding children is pretty essential. Yes, I want my children to be educated, and I'm a bit worried about them not getting enough work, but honestly, how can you complain about MCPS making sure children are fed. My kids are in MS/HS so the lack of academics is going to hurt. But even so, I'm not going to complain about MCPS feeding hungry children.

Some of you seriously have a broken moral compass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new mission of MCPS is to feed children. Apparently they are doing this quite well. Educating them, not so much.

MCPS isn’t feeding my child, but she is being educated.

My HS twins are not being educated at their W school. Very little "work," no actual learning. Yet every weekend MCPS does a live call where they tell us about the 55,000 kids they've fed three meals a day.

Do the people who complain about children getting food ever listen to themselves?

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile, at FCPS:

@JulieCareyNBC
Fairfax County Public Schools pause distance learning after persistent technical issues with Blackboard. Classes are canceled 4/17 &18. Teacher-led instruction is expected to resume on Monday, April 20 @nbcwashington

https://twitter.com/JulieCareyNBC/status/1250570404688728064

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From all the descriptions it sounds like MCPS and FCPS distance learning is pretty identical and equal in being a shit show. The main difference is that Fairfax is freaking about it and trying to correct course. MCPS doesn't give a crap because when something is bad they just dig in deeper. In 7 years, MCPS will be forced to do an external audit by a respected University who will confirm what everyone knew that the MCPS distance learning program was a disaster. Until then the MCPS PR department will keep saying its wonderful.

Nah, if you read the VA board, it seems that the technical challenges that FCPS is dealing with are a much bigger deal. I don't envy ANYONE trying to figure out how to educate kids in the middle of this thing, but you are wrong if you think FCPS is trying to change or upgrade the curriculum. They are dealing with technology. Still.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From all the descriptions it sounds like MCPS and FCPS distance learning is pretty identical and equal in being a shit show. The main difference is that Fairfax is freaking about it and trying to correct course. MCPS doesn't give a crap because when something is bad they just dig in deeper. In 7 years, MCPS will be forced to do an external audit by a respected University who will confirm what everyone knew that the MCPS distance learning program was a disaster. Until then the MCPS PR department will keep saying its wonderful.

MCPS voluntarily followed its own procedures, it was a curriculum review not an "audit," and it was done by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, which is part of the School of Education - and, as such, respected by nobody on DCUM - at JHU. Other than that, though...

[Anonymous]

My sister is in Fairfax and it is a complete shit show over there. They started it, stopped it, canceled it, and had an emergency board meeting this morning.

They allowed kids to log on to classes without a student ID email and and nothing but porn, terrible words, and complete disregard for the courses were coming up.

As much as everyone is here complaining about MCPS, I have been satisfied. The teachers are trying. My daughter's 4th grade teacher had two assignments due before todays's class. Only 1 student did both and a sprinkle of others did one. It is confusing, but I don't think the parents are putting in enough effort to help streamline this.

[Anonymous]

At least we are on week #3.

They couldn't even get week #1 started right. They will restart week #1 on the 20th. 5 weeks after schools completely closed. Just terrible

[Anonymous]

MCPS: In 3rd week of online schooling. No major glitches, since the videoconferencing requires you to log in with your MCPS account (name attached to it), and the teacher lets you into the "room".

FCPS: Was supposed to start first week of online schooling this week, people couldn't even log in, and anyone could enter the rooms so lots of racist and porn stuff posted. Online classes canceled rest of this week.

I'm a harsh crtiic of MCPS. My guess is the MCPS IT people are pretty competent, and they came through. I still think Superintendent Smith is incompetent, but luckily he wasn't involved in any IT decisions. I think MCPS took too long to get things started, but I guess compared to FCPS they did a great job.

As for the food thing, well it's kind of important that kids eat, and I think the division in charge of that has little or nothing to do with the online learning division, so neither hindered the other's progress.

Or... a broken clock is correct twice a day, right?

[Anonymous]

Parent of a lower elementary kid. We’re in week 3 and it’s going ok. They have a consistent meeting every day, with math 3 days a week and literacy 2 days The teacher is prepared and over the last 3 weeks everyone has gotten more familiar with the technology. I’m kind of enjoying this glimpse into the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new mission of MCPS is to feed children. Apparently they are doing this quite well. Educating them, not so much.

MCPS isn’t feeding my child, but she is being educated.

My HS twins are not being educated at their W school. Very little "work," no actual learning. Yet every weekend MCPS does a live call where they tell us about the 55,000 kids they've fed three meals a day.

I would say feeding children is pretty essential. Yes, I want my children to be educated, and I'm a bit worried about them not getting enough work, but honestly, how can you complain about MCPS making sure children are fed. My kids are in MS/HS so the lack of academics is going to hurt. But even so, I'm not going to complain about MCPS feeding hungry children.

Some of you seriously have a broken moral compass.

NOT complaining about MCPS feeding kids. Complaining that MCPS keeps congratulating themselves for feeding kids, while at the same time NOT educating kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new mission of MCPS is to feed children. Apparently they are doing this quite well. Educating them, not so much.

MCPS isn’t feeding my child, but she is being educated.

My HS twins are not being educated at their W school. Very little "work," no actual learning. Yet every weekend MCPS does a live call where they tell us about the 55,000 kids they've fed three meals a day.

I would say feeding children is pretty essential. Yes, I want my children to be educated, and I'm a bit worried about them not getting enough work, but honestly, how can you complain about MCPS making sure children are fed. My kids are in MS/HS so the lack of academics is going to hurt. But even so, I'm not going to complain about MCPS feeding hungry children.

Some of you seriously have a broken moral compass.

NOT complaining about MCPS feeding kids. Complaining that MCPS keeps congratulating themselves for feeding kids, while at the same time NOT educating kids.

Feeding kids is an accomplishment they should congratulate themselves for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new mission of MCPS is to feed children. Apparently they are doing this quite well. Educating them, not so much.

MCPS isn’t feeding my child, but she is being educated.

My HS twins are not being educated at their W school. Very little "work," no actual learning. Yet every weekend MCPS does a live call where they tell us about the 55,000 kids they've fed three meals a day.

I would say feeding children is pretty essential. Yes, I want my children to be educated, and I'm a bit worried about them not getting enough work, but honestly, how can you complain about MCPS making sure children are fed. My kids are in MS/HS so the lack of academics is going to hurt. But even so, I'm not going to complain about MCPS feeding hungry children.

Some of you seriously have a broken moral compass.

NOT complaining about MCPS feeding kids. Complaining that MCPS keeps congratulating themselves for feeding kids, while at the same time NOT educating kids.

Feeding kids is an accomplishment they should congratulate themselves for.

^^PP here.. I agree. It took a lot of coordination and people willing to put themselves out there to serve the food.

I have a MS and HS. They seem to have some work, including graded work. Some of the teachers have more zoom meetings than others; some are giving out more assignment than others. I see my kids engaged in some of the zoom meetings. Do I wish they had more work? Yes, but I can only imagine how difficult it is for the teachers, too. I'm hoping that as the teachers get a hang of this, there will be more assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From all the descriptions it sounds like MCPS and FCPS distance learning is pretty identical and equal in being a shit show. The main difference is that Fairfax is freaking about it and trying to correct course. MCPS doesn't give a crap because when something is bad they just dig in deeper. In 7 years, MCPS will be forced to do an external audit by a respected University who will confirm what everyone knew that the MCPS distance learning program was a disaster. Until then the MCPS PR department will keep saying its wonderful.

MCPS voluntarily followed its own procedures, it was a curriculum review not an "audit," and it was done by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, which is part of the School of Education - and, as such, respected by nobody on DCUM - at JHU. Other than that, though...

I hope in 7 years distance learning will be just a blip in time that is long past.

[Anonymous]

We haven't got much of anything. 3 days of math for 10-15 minutes and the MCPS assignment and 2 days of entire class of reading and an assignment. Office hours are twice a week and its a joke as teachers aren't grading assignments and don't always return emails. No science, history or specials.