Teachers are NOT the enemy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We now have data on what percentage have straight As on their report cards and/or on the MCPS honor rolls?

A very high percentage I'd say.

No, actually, we don't.

[Anonymous]

Very high number of MCPS students with straight As. A majority of MCPS students on the honor rolls. Cries against a water-downed curriculum with few options for all these straight A and honor roll kids to advance. What a conundrum for MCPS.

MCPS wants it both ways: we have all these brilliant students on the honor roll with tons of As spread around but we can't advance these kids because they are not ready and such advancement is inappropriate.

Doesn't seem logical. Very few of these straight A students and honor roll garners are ready for more challenge?

The math certainly does not add up here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very high number of MCPS students with straight As. A majority of MCPS students on the honor rolls. Cries against a water-downed curriculum with few options for all these straight A and honor roll kids to advance. What a conundrum for MCPS.

MCPS wants it both ways: we have all these brilliant students on the honor roll with tons of As spread around but we can't advance these kids because they are not ready and such advancement is inappropriate.

Doesn't seem logical. Very few of these straight A students and honor roll garners are ready for more challenge?

The math certainly does not add up here.

Speaking of the math adding up, I'm still waiting for numbers to support these assertions.

[Anonymous]

You forgot the MCPS endgame. To close the achievement gaps between Asians and Whites and Asians and Whites and all the rest. Grade inflation achieves this goal. When the majority of students are on the honor rolls and are getting As until the cows and goats come home you actively begin to "close the achievement gap".

[Anonymous]

http://connectedcommunities.us/forumdisplay.php?f=154

Let's try again.

Review the data here. This assumes you understand the mathematical concepts underlying an average GPA or running the table with straight As.

If you still have difficulty with the concept of grade inflation and honor roll performance we are resigned to the fact we shall overlook this and pass you through the system with an inflated PASS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You forgot the MCPS endgame. To close the achievement gaps between Asians and Whites and Asians and Whites and all the rest. Grade inflation achieves this goal. When the majority of students are on the honor rolls and are getting As until the cows and goats come home you actively begin to "close the achievement gap".

Except for the part where MCPS doesn't actually measure the achievement gap using grades.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/meetings/agenda/2013/021213/08%200%20Systemic%20Approach%20to%20Achieve%20Gap.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://connectedcommunities.us/forumdisplay.php?f=154

Let's try again.

Review the data here. This assumes you understand the mathematical concepts underlying an average GPA or running the table with straight As.

If you still have difficulty with the concept of grade inflation and honor roll performance we are resigned to the fact we shall overlook this and pass you through the system with an inflated PASS.

You keep posting those links. They didn't provide the data you said they did the first time you posted them, or the second, or the third, or the nth.

[Anonymous]

You are absolutely correct. The winners of the national writing and arts awards, USAMO, AIME, Science, INTEL, Seimens, computer science and math awards all attest the achievement gap is WIDENING.

The grade inflation is a temporary mask, smoke screen and diversion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I had a dime for every parent who treated me like cr#^, I'd have retired by now...
So tired of the micro-managing, the second-guessing, the nit-picking, etc. What is the point of it?

I know the dcurbanmomers are likely going to tear me to shred with their snarky remarks on this, but let me just say:

I am a teacher at a close-in public school. I work hard and produce good results. My students enjoy coming to school. I communicate regularly with parents (positive and negative when necessary). I give freely of my time before and after school.
I am in my mid-thirties with over 10 years of teaching experience behind me, but not too old to be burnt out (despite the title of my thread)...yet I have found (being new the area) that the parents here cause me great stress.
-I have no problem with parents who are strong advocates for their child.
-I have no problem with parents who question a strategy, method, etc.
-I don't even mind your questioning a grade.

What I have a problem with is:
-Skewed expectations of your child's abilities (want them in a higher group than they are capable)
-The expectation of special treatment without valid reason
-Constantly wanting to alter the way I do things and sending in things you find on teacherspayteachers that I should try!!!!!
-Constant criticism
-Down-talking me to colleague

What is it that makes parents so crazy? Do they really think they are helping their child with this behavior? I don't have kids of my own. Help me understand?????

My child is a student at a close in school. You sound like some of the teachers I encounter. You hurt and not help.

**I push for my child to be in advanced sections because the basic curriculum as presented is so easy that when provided a workbook from the store that is her same grade level, the workbook has harder problems. These are your generic workbooks one can find at the Barnes and Noble and are slated as "practice". I would rather my child be presented with advanced work and do ok than easy work and sail through. Life can't always be easy and teaching kids to work up to a better grade shouldn't be seen as wrong.

**I push for my child to be in advanced sections because as the classroom teacher you are abysmal at controlling classroom behavior
and the advanced sections have students that are more academic focused, are in a smaller group, provide more true instruction and behavior issues are minimized as the teacher has less behavior issues to deal with overall.

**TPT is actually a very good site for finding materials that present subject matter in different ways that can appeal to different students. It also highlights teachers work from around the country. why are you opposed to peer learning? I am professional and I take
advantage of opportunities to learn from peers in other orgs about different methods, programs that work, etc.

#1 - And you know my classroom management because you are in the classroom with me each day? Set up cameras? Because your precious snowflake told you?
#2 - Because you aren't a "peer". Do you also tell your OB/GYN how to do your pap? Just because you have a vagina, doesn't mean you are an expert when it comes to one. Just because you went to school, doesn't mean you know how to teach.

You're gross. When you kid doesn't cut the mustard and ends up in community college (because he/she never learned to do anything on his/her own) you can use the money from the 529 for his/her therapy.

Not PP, but you are awful and should not be a teacher. I have no doubt from your atupidity and bad attitude you are an awful one. Your comparison of yourself yo an obgyn is also hilarious. Trust me honey, that ed degree ain't med school. And if i saw my doctor doing something that appeared totally wrong and damaging, you bet i would ask questions. And your use of"precious snowflake" sarcasm is disgusting. I am supposed to trust my kid's care and educationy to someone with nothing but contempt for children? Out yourself and leave your job. You area disgrace.

You still didn't answer my question, but you can't, which is why you have deflected everything into what a horrible human being I am. I really don't know what about my original post above is so "disgusting" but okay. Because you said so (and you do know everything) I will quit on Tuesday. ALL the children of MCPS will then have better teachers because I am no longer in the classroom! Yay!

Also, I am not comparing myself to a doctor. I am simply stating that you shouldn't pretend to know what you are talking about if you are not in the classroom every day. It is called reading comprehension, which I actually teach to my students that I supposedly hate.

Unlike you, comments from some know-it-all, anonymous, dimwit don't bother me. Just keep your head in the sand. It seems that is where you are most comfortable.

[Anonymous]

I am afraid the illiterate poster seeking to be spoon fed will ask for the links to the winners for the last 10 years of all these coveted prizes. And then claim she needs more data. The names and pictures of the winners are not sufficient.

[Anonymous]

...Blind, deaf and dumb syndrome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are absolutely correct. The winners of the national writing and arts awards, USAMO, AIME, Science, INTEL, Seimens, computer science and math awards all attest the achievement gap is WIDENING.

The grade inflation is a temporary mask, smoke screen and diversion.

How, exactly, do they attest this?

MCPS doesn't measure the achievement gap using any of these things, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You forgot the MCPS endgame. To close the achievement gaps between Asians and Whites and Asians and Whites and all the rest. Grade inflation achieves this goal. When the majority of students are on the honor rolls and are getting As until the cows and goats come home you actively begin to "close the achievement gap".

Anybody else think this nutjob with the fake stats is the flaming-racist Asian poster with the boy in Wooton HS? The overblown language and hyperbole is very characteristic of the racist Asian poster.

[Anonymous]

The same fool who continues playing a child's game of guessing identity on an anonymous board. A proven idiot. Yet again false. We will hear from this simpleton again.

[Anonymous]

Anybody else think this nutjob with the fake stats is the flaming-racist Asian poster with the boy in Wooton HS? The overblown language and hyperbole is very characteristic of the racist Asian poster.

No. What the hell are you talking about? No one knows what you mean? Who are all these characters dancing in your mind? Are you a divorcee or loner? Have your children left you? Did your husband run out on you? We understand and sympathize.

Don't you have better things to do with your time than playing these hallucinatory games with yourself? Have you taken your manic-depressive meds yet this morning? You are long overdue for the next dose.

Your language reeks of some huge conspiracy theory that somehow a boy from Wooton is the only child of an asian racist coming to get you?

Beware, don't turn around, the poster is in your midst and will eat you with chopsticks.

Call 911 and your psychiatrist immediately?