Quince Orchard community meeting for Boundary Analysis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Having more low performing kids at your school doesn’t hurt your kid. [/b]The biggest predictors of educational CPS kids WANT more diversity. Thank goodness the kids are not as fearful as the parents.

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It slows down the pacing of instruction and makes if much harder on the teacher to plan and grade. On level used to be for kids with strong enough foundation. Now it's become a skills' class. You've heard this before - again and again and again.

So if low performers are added to a school, your on level child will become bored, as the majority of time will be spent on remediation.

I know you all don't "get it" b/c you're not in the classroom. But so many of you REFUSE to listen, too.

just turn a deaf ear . . .

Anybody reading DCUM would think that the only "low performers" are poor/black/brown kids zoned for other schools. No "low performers" with family backgrounds like mine, living in my neighborhood, no sir!

You are making assumptions for other people. It does not work.

In fact, it does not matter whether there are low-performing students around me. What matters is, are we going to get MORE or LESS with any proposed change.

If we get more, people are not happy (of course if you have compelling reasons,people can tolerate that) with the change. One way to predict whether we get more low-performing students, is to look at the performance of the school they come from. It is very simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Having more low performing kids at your school doesn’t hurt your kid. [/b]The biggest predictors of educational CPS kids WANT more diversity. Thank goodness the kids are not as fearful as the parents.

ok

It slows down the pacing of instruction and makes if much harder on the teacher to plan and grade. On level used to be for kids with strong enough foundation. Now it's become a skills' class. You've heard this before - again and again and again.

So if low performers are added to a school, your on level child will become bored, as the majority of time will be spent on remediation.

I know you all don't "get it" b/c you're not in the classroom. But so many of you REFUSE to listen, too.

just turn a deaf ear . . .

My kid is a low performer in a well regarded school. So sorry for your precious child that they actually have to teach my kid too.

[Anonymous]

MCPS can tweak the boundaries as much as possible but the achievement gap will continue to get wider and wider and wider because the families that are obsessed with education will further seek more and more enrichment and tutoring for their already high performing children.

[Anonymous]

If MCPS keeps lowering the ceiling to reduce the gap, the kids from the poor and uninformed parents will be the one who will be truely hurt by by the policy. The informed parents will notice that their child could not receive proper education and turn to outside help. At the end the third party test scores like SAT or ACT will reveal who have the knowledge to be ready for college and who fail to master basic math, science and English in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If MCPS keeps lowering the ceiling to reduce the gap, the kids from the poor and uninformed parents will be the one who will be truely hurt by by the policy. The informed parents will notice that their child could not receive proper education and turn to outside help. At the end the third party test scores like SAT or ACT will reveal who have the knowledge to be ready for college and who fail to master basic math, science and English in MCPS.

Good news! MCPS isn't!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If MCPS keeps lowering the ceiling to reduce the gap, the kids from the poor and uninformed parents will be the one who will be truely hurt by by the policy. The informed parents will notice that their child could not receive proper education and turn to outside help. At the end the third party test scores like SAT or ACT will reveal who have the knowledge to be ready for college and who fail to master basic math, science and English in MCPS.

Good news! MCPS isn't!

Have you seen the MCPS custom district literacy and math tests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If MCPS keeps lowering the ceiling to reduce the gap, the kids from the poor and uninformed parents will be the one who will be truely hurt by by the policy. The informed parents will notice that their child could not receive proper education and turn to outside help. At the end the third party test scores like SAT or ACT will reveal who have the knowledge to be ready for college and who fail to master basic math, science and English in MCPS.

Good news! MCPS isn't!

Have you seen the MCPS custom district literacy and math tests?

What does that even mean?