MCPS curriculum RFP-Second Attempt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
KEY DIFFERENCE:
The DCPS dumpster fires don't affect the good student's educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

Very unfortunately, the MCPS dumpster fires do negatively affect the good students' educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

It's really quite shocking. Skim away the headlines about MCPS bus/teacher/coach molesters and MCPS Erick Lang F'ing up the RFP process for his own personal gain, etc. and what do you ahve left? The real dumpster fire of a terrible large school district.

Skim away the headlines about DCPS resident fraud and graduating deliquent HS students and you still have a strong curriculum, teachers, PTA, ECs for the good students. DCPS has good basics, MCPS does not. DCPS lets you enhance its good basics (with teacher aides, w for language class, with gym class 4 times a week) and MCPS does not. Big difference.

Who cares about the majority of the students in DCPS, as long as the students who live in the leafy NW neighborhoods get a good education!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Please share this with any good curriculum providers
http://procurement.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/home/Bid_Record/1638

+1

thx, I read the RFP file (last one listed) and am familiar with legal docs.
no mention of science or social studies in either ELA or math requirements or preferences. Guess MCPS will whip that up?
mentioned 45-60 minutes of daily ELA and of daily Math so that frees up 60 minutes versus current C2.0. Wonder what MCSP will do with that time? More gym, A day for science, B day for social studies?
no mention of physical textbooks or work books, just digital stuff for teachers, parents, students.

science and social studies were never in scope of the RFP. It has always been ELA and math..

So does this mean they will not teach social studies or science? Those subjects are barely taught now, except for at the high school level.

You have to go to private or parochial school nowadays if you want the subject matter that used to be taught in all schools and all public schools, plus the art, music and gym frequency. It is not in MCPS, too much teaching to the test on two subjects for K-5. Funny how in 6th and 7th grade half the kids freak out at gym class three times a week. literally freak out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
KEY DIFFERENCE:
The DCPS dumpster fires don't affect the good student's educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

Very unfortunately, the MCPS dumpster fires do negatively affect the good students' educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

It's really quite shocking. Skim away the headlines about MCPS bus/teacher/coach molesters and MCPS Erick Lang F'ing up the RFP process for his own personal gain, etc. and what do you ahve left? The real dumpster fire of a terrible large school district.

Skim away the headlines about DCPS resident fraud and graduating deliquent HS students and you still have a strong curriculum, teachers, PTA, ECs for the good students. DCPS has good basics, MCPS does not. DCPS lets you enhance its good basics (with teacher aides, w for language class, with gym class 4 times a week) and MCPS does not. Big difference.

Who cares about the majority of the students in DCPS, as long as the students who live in the leafy NW neighborhoods get a good education!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please share this with any good curriculum providers
http://procurement.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/home/Bid_Record/1638

+1

thx, I read the RFP file (last one listed) and am familiar with legal docs.
no mention of science or social studies in either ELA or math requirements or preferences. Guess MCPS will whip that up?
mentioned 45-60 minutes of daily ELA and of daily Math so that frees up 60 minutes versus current C2.0. Wonder what MCSP will do with that time? More gym, A day for science, B day for social studies?
no mention of physical textbooks or work books, just digital stuff for teachers, parents, students.

science and social studies were never in scope of the RFP. It has always been ELA and math..

So does this mean they will not teach social studies or science? Those subjects are barely taught now, except for at the high school level.

You have to go to private or parochial school nowadays if you want the subject matter that used to be taught in all schools and all public schools, plus the art, music and gym frequency. It is not in MCPS, too much teaching to the test on two subjects for K-5. Funny how in 6th and 7th grade half the kids freak out at gym class three times a week. literally freak out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
KEY DIFFERENCE:
The DCPS dumpster fires don't affect the good student's educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

Very unfortunately, the MCPS dumpster fires do negatively affect the good students' educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

It's really quite shocking. Skim away the headlines about MCPS bus/teacher/coach molesters and MCPS Erick Lang F'ing up the RFP process for his own personal gain, etc. and what do you ahve left? The real dumpster fire of a terrible large school district.

Skim away the headlines about DCPS resident fraud and graduating deliquent HS students and you still have a strong curriculum, teachers, PTA, ECs for the good students. DCPS has good basics, MCPS does not. DCPS lets you enhance its good basics (with teacher aides, w for language class, with gym class 4 times a week) and MCPS does not. Big difference.

Who cares about the majority of the students in DCPS, as long as the students who live in the leafy NW neighborhoods get a good education!

Don't worry, the bottom kids in any public school always get more $$ per head and more attention and time. Just ask penny pritzer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You have to go to private or parochial school nowadays if you want the subject matter that used to be taught in all schools and all public schools, plus the art, music and gym frequency. It is not in MCPS, too much teaching to the test on two subjects for K-5. Funny how in 6th and 7th grade half the kids freak out at gym class three times a week. literally freak out.

One of my kids was in MCPS middle school a few years ago, and the other kid is currently in MCPS middle school. They didn't report any freak-outs, literal or figurative. Could you be more specific about your experiences, please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
KEY DIFFERENCE:
The DCPS dumpster fires don't affect the good student's educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

Very unfortunately, the MCPS dumpster fires do negatively affect the good students' educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

It's really quite shocking. Skim away the headlines about MCPS bus/teacher/coach molesters and MCPS Erick Lang F'ing up the RFP process for his own personal gain, etc. and what do you ahve left? The real dumpster fire of a terrible large school district.

Skim away the headlines about DCPS resident fraud and graduating deliquent HS students and you still have a strong curriculum, teachers, PTA, ECs for the good students. DCPS has good basics, MCPS does not. DCPS lets you enhance its good basics (with teacher aides, w for language class, with gym class 4 times a week) and MCPS does not. Big difference.

Who cares about the majority of the students in DCPS, as long as the students who live in the leafy NW neighborhoods get a good education!

Plus big majority go to the charter schools and of course, the many strong private schools in NW DC. the charter school competition helped NW DC public schools step it up the last 6 years in a good way as well. Thanks for pointing that out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You have to go to private or parochial school nowadays if you want the subject matter that used to be taught in all schools and all public schools, plus the art, music and gym frequency. It is not in MCPS, too much teaching to the test on two subjects for K-5. Funny how in 6th and 7th grade half the kids freak out at gym class three times a week. literally freak out.

One of my kids was in MCPS middle school a few years ago, and the other kid is currently in MCPS middle school. They didn't report any freak-outs, literal or figurative. Could you be more specific about your experiences, please?

Ask them how many kids demanded stretching and yoga instead.

Meanwhile, so much fun sitting on the softball bench with 35 kids you never met before in your 1000 person grade while 12 ppl play softball at a time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You have to go to private or parochial school nowadays if you want the subject matter that used to be taught in all schools and all public schools, plus the art, music and gym frequency. It is not in MCPS, too much teaching to the test on two subjects for K-5. Funny how in 6th and 7th grade half the kids freak out at gym class three times a week. literally freak out.

One of my kids was in MCPS middle school a few years ago, and the other kid is currently in MCPS middle school. They didn't report any freak-outs, literal or figurative. Could you be more specific about your experiences, please?

Ask them how many kids demanded stretching and yoga instead.

Meanwhile, so much fun sitting on the softball bench with 35 kids you never met before in your 1000 person grade while 12 ppl play softball at a time.

I understand. You didn't mean "half the kids freak out at gym class", you meant "I don't like what they do in MS PE".

Also, I'm not aware of any middle schools in MCPS with 3,000 students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You have to go to private or parochial school nowadays if you want the subject matter that used to be taught in all schools and all public schools, plus the art, music and gym frequency. It is not in MCPS, too much teaching to the test on two subjects for K-5. Funny how in 6th and 7th grade half the kids freak out at gym class three times a week. literally freak out.

One of my kids was in MCPS middle school a few years ago, and the other kid is currently in MCPS middle school. They didn't report any freak-outs, literal or figurative. Could you be more specific about your experiences, please?

Ask them how many kids demanded stretching and yoga instead.

Meanwhile, so much fun sitting on the softball bench with 35 kids you never met before in your 1000 person grade while 12 ppl play softball at a time.

I understand. You didn't mean "half the kids freak out at gym class", you meant "I don't like what they do in MS PE".

Also, I'm not aware of any middle schools in MCPS with 3,000 students.

+1 What school are you referring to? My kids don't report any freak outs at gym class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
KEY DIFFERENCE:
The DCPS dumpster fires don't affect the good student's educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

Very unfortunately, the MCPS dumpster fires do negatively affect the good students' educations, curricula, PTAs, ECs, teachers.

It's really quite shocking. Skim away the headlines about MCPS bus/teacher/coach molesters and MCPS Erick Lang F'ing up the RFP process for his own personal gain, etc. and what do you ahve left? The real dumpster fire of a terrible large school district.

Skim away the headlines about DCPS resident fraud and graduating deliquent HS students and you still have a strong curriculum, teachers, PTA, ECs for the good students. DCPS has good basics, MCPS does not. DCPS lets you enhance its good basics (with teacher aides, w for language class, with gym class 4 times a week) and MCPS does not. Big difference.

This is wrong. We moved from a DCPS zone. Their central administration is far less functional. Their curriculum problems are far worse than Maryland. If you hop over to the DCPS forum, they were just talking about how they wish they could have something as structured as Words their Way, a second rate curriculum that MCPS has (i.e. what they have is worse).

[Anonymous]

curriculum structure in MCPS elementary schools? interesting concept. more like DIY by the teacher, highlighted by the JHU study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:curriculum structure in MCPS elementary schools? interesting concept. more like DIY by the teacher, highlighted by the JHU study.

Yes, we know that. That's why this RFP is out for bid.

Please share this with any good curriculum providers
http://procurement.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/home/Bid_Record/1638

[Anonymous]

Wait, so montgomery county schools had a terrible "curriculum" since 2010 and nothing was done about it until this late? What are they using right now?

What happened, we just moved here a few months ago. Only used the real estate section DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so montgomery county schools had a terrible "curriculum" since 2010 and nothing was done about it until this late? What are they using right now?

What happened, we just moved here a few months ago. Only used the real estate section DCUM.

Good..this section does not reflect the reality of MCPS well. Talk to actual people in your neighborhood for information on your local schools. Come back here occasionally for entertainment (mostly).