MCPS Is Broken What Are Your Ideas to Fix It?

[Anonymous]

As the amount of people who don’t value hard work and education increase in the county, schools will get worse

[Anonymous]

Anti-gang task force

[Anonymous]

Bring back the old attendance, grading, and final exam policies.

Student know they can pass classes with minimal effort and don't even need to show up to class.

Synergy defaults to present, so if a teacher doesn't bother to take attendance, the kids show up as present.

Because kids can't fail classes easily they don't bother coming into class. Too many students just wander the hallways skipping classes with no consequences. When they do show up they are behind and it just makes more work for teachers and holds the whole class back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bring back the old attendance, grading, and final exam policies.

Student know they can pass classes with minimal effort and don't even need to show up to class.

Synergy defaults to present, so if a teacher doesn't bother to take attendance, the kids show up as present.

Because kids can't fail classes easily they don't bother coming into class. Too many students just wander the hallways skipping classes with no consequences. When they do show up they are behind and it just makes more work for teachers and holds the whole class back.

do you want disruptive kids in class? I think the dropout age should be lowered so disruptive kids don’t prevent others from learning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bring back the old attendance, grading, and final exam policies.

Student know they can pass classes with minimal effort and don't even need to show up to class.

Synergy defaults to present, so if a teacher doesn't bother to take attendance, the kids show up as present.

Because kids can't fail classes easily they don't bother coming into class. Too many students just wander the hallways skipping classes with no consequences. When they do show up they are behind and it just makes more work for teachers and holds the whole class back.

do you want disruptive kids in class? I think the dropout age should be lowered so disruptive kids don’t prevent others from learning

I don't think that's a real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anti-gang task force

They have one.

[Anonymous]

I have come to the conclusion that MCPS is incapable of reform.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have come to the conclusion that MCPS is incapable of reform.

How can there can reform when people keep voting the same old way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My personal view is that they need to return to a focus on high standards and expectations for both staff and students. This can be accomplished through a number of different ways, but the details are probably not that important right now. What are your ideas?

-Bring back discipline. Restorative justice focuses too much on hugging it out but not enough consequences. I think you can make the 2 work together.
-Expect excellence and hard work. Bring back final exams and class rank.
-Provide free tutoring for all students and require it for those getting a D.
-Make signature programs easily accessible to all students by expanding them. For each signature program on down county, there should be another one in upcounty.
-Make it easy and efficient to go from in person and virtual class, and vice- versa.
-Bring back SROs AND add more mental health resources.
-Give school principals and administration more flexibility to make decisions for their own schools.
-Stop moving kids who do harm or commit crimes to another school. Make them go virtual instead.
-Students who disrespect teachers and staff should be disciplined- Detention during lunch time. Have a guidance counselor or mental health worker oversee detention.
-Use mobile technology to enhance safety and experience. For instance, have an app that enables students/staff to easily report a fight or potential harm. Also have a bus tracking app.
-Require financial literacy class immediately and require a career exploration class

wow you are really horribly misinformed and please stop pushing the useless SRO nonsensse

TROLL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anti-gang task force

They have one.

Focused on schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have come to the conclusion that MCPS is incapable of reform.

You can thank the rabid reopening parents for lack of innovation or reinvention. They just wanted to go back to status quo. They are out here peddling this “urgrencyfornormal” bs right now. The system was broken before the pandemic. No one should be racing back to whatever “normal” was, because it definitely wasn’t working before.

[Anonymous]

The only thing that will fix MCPS is breaking it up into smaller districts.

No child should be in a building with 2000 other children on any given day.

The other students didn't care enough about the Magruder victim to let anyone know he was dying alone. Jailyn was left out in the woods under a bridge without a word from the school about him missing.
No one helped him at school.

Mcps is a machine that cates about tests and lowering the achievement gap and doesn't have a single God damn about the kids.

Children need schools that can space kids 3 feet apart.
Children need schools that know or care if they have been left for dead in a bathrooms or if their body is out in the woods for weeks.

Children need classrooms with connections and mentors.
There should be no 30 kids in a kindergarten class.

[Anonymous]

MCPS claims to be following science and medical policy recommendations.

Quote from the The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine requirements for in-person learning:

"Limit large gatherings of students, such as during assemblies, in the cafeteria, and overcrowding at school entrances, possibly by staggering arrival times."

"Reorganize classrooms to enable physical distancing, such as by limiting class sizes or moving instruction to larger spaces. The report says cohorting, when a group of 10 students or less stay with the same staff as much as possible, is a promising strategy for physical distancing."

"Prioritize cleaning, ventilation, and air filtration, while recognizing that these alone will not sufficiently lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission."

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2020/07/schools-should-prioritize-reopening-in-fall-2020-especially-for-grades-k-5-while-weighing-risks-and-benefits

Anyone see MCPS class sizes of 10 or less, or cleaning desks / hallways / cafeterias during the day?

[Anonymous]

It and the county are definitely in decline but it’s slow moving and there’s no political will to address it but be thankful it isn’t like nyc. My mom grew up in queens. Her high school , Andrew Jackson high school got so bad they had to close it in the 80s. Students were manufacturing heroin IN the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS claims to be following science and medical policy recommendations.

Quote from the The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine requirements for in-person learning:

"Limit large gatherings of students, such as during assemblies, in the cafeteria, and overcrowding at school entrances, possibly by staggering arrival times."

"Reorganize classrooms to enable physical distancing, such as by limiting class sizes or moving instruction to larger spaces. The report says cohorting, when a group of 10 students or less stay with the same staff as much as possible, is a promising strategy for physical distancing."

"Prioritize cleaning, ventilation, and air filtration, while recognizing that these alone will not sufficiently lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission."

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2020/07/schools-should-prioritize-reopening-in-fall-2020-especially-for-grades-k-5-while-weighing-risks-and-benefits

Anyone see MCPS class sizes of 10 or less, or cleaning desks / hallways / cafeterias during the day?

To be fair. I don’t think most schools in the country are following those guidelines.