Did you waste your money buying a house to get access to MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Hooray! Montgomery County housing prices are more affordable!

(Actually they aren't, not so's anybody noticed.)

They are way more affordable than DC or VA!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did OK selling in a W cluster but had lost money years ago on a Silver Spring house. I used to look at some of the NOVA houses that we almost bought the first time around and really want to scream. NOVA appreciated so much over the past 10 years! DC too. Financially, we would have been better off staying in our tiny, tiny DC house. The elementary schools in NW DC now look better than the MCPS ones.

Our SS house went over asking and we were really pleased with the appreciation. SS is big though - we sold close in, which is still a draw. Sorry you lost money. I'm not sure what will happen with Arlington given GS has really done a number on their top schools. it will probably weather the storm, given its proximity to DC and housing stock.

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Anonymous wrote:

Hooray! Montgomery County housing prices are more affordable!

(Actually they aren't, not so's anybody noticed.)

They are way more affordable than DC or VA!!

what information do you base this statement on?

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Anonymous wrote:

Our house sold after 9 days on the market (typical for our neighborhood) for the highest price since the real estate bubble

Right but what people are noticing is that VA and DC have appreciated beyond the real estate bubble while MD is still under bubble prices. MCPS had a VERY strong reputation during the last real estate bubble. Prices soared and people spent $ further and further out. Many of the people who did this when they were just starting to have kids are in the age range that has felt 2.0 the most. For them its a double hit, the school system they bought into collapsed and the real estate recovery was sluggish as a result.

If you bought after the bubble crash and after 2.0 was rolled out, you're in a different situation. There was plenty of outrage when 2.0 rolled out and plenty of negative articles in local media about it. (Parents who had kids in upper elementary school had their kids actually knocked back two years in math to repeat things they had already learned. They were furious and now they are receiving affirmation that not only was that unnecessary but their kids were knocked back to learn a faulty way of doing math riddled with errors. ) If you spent five seconds researching MCPS back then you heard the warnings about 2.0 so there is less to complain about now.

Oh my God chicken little get over it already get over it already there a lot of people who still live here who are weathering the storm of 2.0 who are fine with the schools working through the improvements who are happy with the house they bought who are not in financial ruin who aren't scared of poor or brown people get the F over it

[Anonymous]

For all the complaints on this board, I feel my kids education at MCPS today is head and shoulders above what I got from FCPS a few decades ago.

[Anonymous]

I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

That is true for every curriculum ever, anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

That is true for every curriculum ever, anywhere.

Are you not grasping the fact that Johns Hopkins strongly recommended this curriculum be replaced?

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

That is true for every curriculum ever, anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

That is true for every curriculum ever, anywhere.

Are you not grasping the fact that Johns Hopkins strongly recommended this curriculum be replaced?

Are you mit grasping the fact that despite its problems kids still learned ??????

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

That is true for every curriculum ever, anywhere.

Are you not grasping the fact that Johns Hopkins strongly recommended this curriculum be replaced?

Are you mit grasping the fact that despite its problems kids still learned ??????

No one said they didn’t learn anything. What the audit said is that only 30% of the kids mastered the state standards, so most kids didn’t learn enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

That is true for every curriculum ever, anywhere.

Are you not grasping the fact that Johns Hopkins strongly recommended this curriculum be replaced?

Are you mit grasping the fact that despite its problems kids still learned ??????

No one said they didn’t learn anything. What the audit said is that only 30% of the kids mastered the state standards, so most kids didn’t learn enough.

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A few prolific posters keep saying kids are learning NOTHING! their kids and Ours were totalky failed and that if you were saying your kid wasn't totally failed you're just not paying attention and that you have lost all your money, your house is worthless ! yes there are a number of prolific posters or maybe just one nut ball who keeps saying that over and over again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

That is true for every curriculum ever, anywhere.

Are you not grasping the fact that Johns Hopkins strongly recommended this curriculum be replaced?

Given that MCPS has replaced its curriculum numerous times no doubt due to concerns about one thing or another, this is hardly the crisis some people here seem to be imagining,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sent mine to K as a non-reading 5 year old , that could count to only 10 and could not reliably write his name. 4 years later he is writing in paragraph form (ish), reads well and knows all his math facts. I'd say he has a great foundation.

That's great that it worked for you. For many kids it didn’t.

SO you think the study is indicating that only 30% of kids are reading when it talks about foundational skills. I have yet to see anyone actually define the term.