MCPS is no longer a desirable school district

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to Montgomery County because of the schools, and now, we are moving out for the exact same reason. MCPS has been deteriorating on so many levels over the last decade. It feels like watching a car wreck in slow motion. Our kids deserve better.

Ok, private school recruiter you are starting early this admission cycle?!

Most privates have waitlists lol

So why do y'all spend so much time trolling here?

DP. It's true. Since the school closures, private school enrollment has shot way up.

But why do y'all spend so much time trolling here?

The OP posts this same stuff every couple of weeks. It's nothing new. Often they discuss their love for Howard County where the demographics are similar to MCPS 30 years ago. This is just a troll thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with MCPS is right in the the tagline: Equitee and excellence. It's an oxymoron because these two are at odds with each other.

That isn't their tagline.

Meh. The PP is wrong. The MCPS motto is 'Equity Not Excellence'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's be even more clear. School has ALWAYS been this way. A student with or without support can always achieve more. They can write a better paper, they can produce neater work and they can push themselves harder. College admissions for generations have looked beyond grades to holistic health of the mind and body, involvement in the community, commitment to bettering themselves outside of the scope of what is asked as a baseline. It has ALWAYS been this way. Now, we're to believe that we're tricked by the meaning of grades, as kids at your school work to pad their resumes with piano, boy scouts, sports, language studies and on? As they take coding classes to differentiate themselves further from their cohorts? Parents of straight A kids were tricked? Really?

Nah.

I'm a kid of immigrant whose parents really couldn't help me in school. I got a FANTASTIC public education in another state from K-12 with very little support at home. Schools taught me grammar and writing and solid math skills that served me well in college.

That is NOT happening here in MCPS. Kids get straight As for sub-par work regularly.

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I am from Texas and also lived in Illinois. I have never seen schools as wonderful as the ones my children attend/attended. I have one in a magnet at Poolesville HS and she grows and flourishes. No issues! My youngest is in a great school also and we have no issues. You have to have a child who is motivated and be involved and visible in the younger grades. I do worry about middle school but will cross that bridge when we get there.

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Anonymous wrote:I am from Texas and also lived in Illinois. I have never seen schools as wonderful as the ones my children attend/attended. I have one in a magnet at Poolesville HS and she grows and flourishes. No issues! My youngest is in a great school also and we have no issues. You have to have a child who is motivated and be involved and visible in the younger grades. I do worry about middle school but will cross that bridge when we get there.

If yoire in the top magnet school and an elementary, of course you think life is rosey!
The lotus flower is sprouting out of manure.

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Anonymous wrote:I am from Texas and also lived in Illinois. I have never seen schools as wonderful as the ones my children attend/attended. I have one in a magnet at Poolesville HS and she grows and flourishes. No issues! My youngest is in a great school also and we have no issues. You have to have a child who is motivated and be involved and visible in the younger grades. I do worry about middle school but will cross that bridge when we get there.

Poolesville HS is the number one-ranked high school in MCPS. Of course you're not seeing problems with MCPS.

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Mcps trolls teachers by making all these rules to document data but when we document the crime and violence admin starts writing us up for the act of documenting the negative to help students with their mental and social problems. Then they fire teachers after they burn them out. Then they lie to the dllr so they can block unemployment. It happened to me and mostlikely many others. Education is a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with MCPS is right in the the tagline: Equitee and excellence. It's an oxymoron because these two are at odds with each other.

That isn't their tagline.

Meh. The PP is wrong. The MCPS motto is 'Equity Not Excellence'.

They don't have equity either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mcps trolls teachers by making all these rules to document data but when we document the crime and violence admin starts writing us up for the act of documenting the negative to help students with their mental and social problems. Then they fire teachers after they burn them out. Then they lie to the dllr so they can block unemployment. It happened to me and mostlikely many others. Education is a joke.

Why did you get fired?

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I had both perpetrator and victim of violence in my classroom and i had the audacity to try to get control of the class for the education of students. This i thought was my job as a teacher but when you go against whatever coverup is going on it makes you as a teacher the new target.

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Anonymous wrote:I am from Texas and also lived in Illinois. I have never seen schools as wonderful as the ones my children attend/attended. I have one in a magnet at Poolesville HS and she grows and flourishes. No issues! My youngest is in a great school also and we have no issues. You have to have a child who is motivated and be involved and visible in the younger grades. I do worry about middle school but will cross that bridge when we get there.

It goes to show that it is what people make of it, but sadly many refuse to take any personal responsibility for anything these days and prefer to blame others for their own problems.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am from Texas and also lived in Illinois. I have never seen schools as wonderful as the ones my children attend/attended. I have one in a magnet at Poolesville HS and she grows and flourishes. No issues! My youngest is in a great school also and we have no issues. You have to have a child who is motivated and be involved and visible in the younger grades. I do worry about middle school but will cross that bridge when we get there.

It goes to show that it is what people make of it, but sadly many refuse to take any personal responsibility for anything these days and prefer to blame others for their own problems.

I'm an mcps employee and many of our schools/leadership are being run in chaotic environments. I'm not surprised that poolsville, in a remote locale, with a high ses population, and magnet program is an exceptipn. I'm also a parent and see my kids getting a low quality education in "good schools." I'm doing the best i can to supplement outside of school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am from Texas and also lived in Illinois. I have never seen schools as wonderful as the ones my children attend/attended. I have one in a magnet at Poolesville HS and she grows and flourishes. No issues! My youngest is in a great school also and we have no issues. You have to have a child who is motivated and be involved and visible in the younger grades. I do worry about middle school but will cross that bridge when we get there.

It goes to show that it is what people make of it, but sadly many refuse to take any personal responsibility for anything these days and prefer to blame others for their own problems.

Two words for you: Curriculum 2.0

Does a school system have the responsibility to select appropriate instruction materials? Or should a school district ignore a failed curriculum for a decade?

This is your MCPS. I would not entrust this school district to educate anyone. They seem to excel as a location for free food distribution. That’s about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am from Texas and also lived in Illinois. I have never seen schools as wonderful as the ones my children attend/attended. I have one in a magnet at Poolesville HS and she grows and flourishes. No issues! My youngest is in a great school also and we have no issues. You have to have a child who is motivated and be involved and visible in the younger grades. I do worry about middle school but will cross that bridge when we get there.

It goes to show that it is what people make of it, but sadly many refuse to take any personal responsibility for anything these days and prefer to blame others for their own problems.

Two words for you: Curriculum 2.0

Does a school system have the responsibility to select appropriate instruction materials? Or should a school district ignore a failed curriculum for a decade?

This is your MCPS. I would not entrust this school district to educate anyone. They seem to excel as a location for free food distribution. That’s about it.

To be fair MCPS is pretty good at daycare as well. Only a handful of kids get injured every day but it is a very large system.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to Montgomery County because of the schools, and now, we are moving out for the exact same reason. MCPS has been deteriorating on so many levels over the last decade. It feels like watching a car wreck in slow motion. Our kids deserve better.

Yeah but PP speaks truth.
Ok, private school recruiter you are starting early this admission cycle?!

Most privates have waitlists lol

So why do y'all spend so much time trolling here?

DP. It's true. Since the school closures, private school enrollment has shot way up.

But why do y'all spend so much time trolling here?

The OP posts this same stuff every couple of weeks. It's nothing new. Often they discuss their love for Howard County where the demographics are similar to MCPS 30 years ago. This is just a troll thread.