interesting discussion regarding abysmal decline of MoCo schools

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

my kindergartener and 1st grader have homework (I don't agree with HW at this age) as do older kids we are friends with at a few different schools. This no HW thing is a myth

My 4th grader has "optional" homework, which is the same as no homework, because homework that isn't checked or evaluated or required isn't getting done.

My high schoolers do get homework though. Although not nearly as much as I used to get when I was their age...

Have you tried parenting?

The poster clearly sees a problem with the MCPS No Homework in elementary school as a problem. This started about 13 years ago in MCPS and was the dumb idea of Central Office administrators. Parents have an uphill battle when teachers give a mixed message that homework is optional. But sure - blame parents if their children don’t do homework that the teacher doesn’t grade, review mistakes, or hold them accountable for.

The part that is shocking to me is that they don’t provide any feedback. It was my experience that when homework was graded it was just marked off for wrong answers but there was not explanation of why they got it wrong. How does learning happen without feedback?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

“MCPS” doesn’t delete posts on a private forum they don’t own or moderate. Remove your tinfoil hat. It’s not a good look.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

“MCPS” doesn’t delete posts on a private forum they don’t own or moderate. Remove your tinfoil hat. It’s not a good look.

LOL deleting entire mcps threads isn't a good look. Someone must have something very big to hide.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

my kindergartener and 1st grader have homework (I don't agree with HW at this age) as do older kids we are friends with at a few different schools. This no HW thing is a myth

My 4th grader has "optional" homework, which is the same as no homework, because homework that isn't checked or evaluated or required isn't getting done.

My high schoolers do get homework though. Although not nearly as much as I used to get when I was their age...

Have you tried parenting?

The poster clearly sees a problem with the MCPS No Homework in elementary school as a problem. This started about 13 years ago in MCPS and was the dumb idea of Central Office administrators. Parents have an uphill battle when teachers give a mixed message that homework is optional. But sure - blame parents if their children don’t do homework that the teacher doesn’t grade, review mistakes, or hold them accountable for.

Thank you for stating what was obvious to this troll.

I have made my kid do the optional homework from time to time, but the teacher doesn't look at it and my daughter isn't receiving a grade for it so there's really no point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

LOL MCPS doesn't have moderation powers over here. Get a grip.

I do, however, hope they have people from there watching and listening. I doubt it though. If they did, there would be a lot more changes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

LOL MCPS doesn't have moderation powers over here. Get a grip.

I do, however, hope they have people from there watching and listening. I doubt it though. If they did, there would be a lot more changes.

Yes, but many of the people posting this nonsense have a very loose grip on reality anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

BINGO!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

LOL MCPS doesn't have moderation powers over here. Get a grip.

I do, however, hope they have people from there watching and listening. I doubt it though. If they did, there would be a lot more changes.

Then explain the deletion of entire threads that expose waste of funds. That happens because? Only one reason, mcps administrators want them gone.

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Then explain the deletion of entire threads that expose waste of funds. That happens because? Only one reason, mcps administrators want them gone.

You can post your question here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/forums/show/19.page

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

The options here are move to someplace with great quality schools, go private / parochial or home school. I remember posting the same thing 10 years ago.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

my kindergartener and 1st grader have homework (I don't agree with HW at this age) as do older kids we are friends with at a few different schools. This no HW thing is a myth

My 4th grader has "optional" homework, which is the same as no homework, because homework that isn't checked or evaluated or required isn't getting done.

My high schoolers do get homework though. Although not nearly as much as I used to get when I was their age...

Have you tried parenting?

The poster clearly sees a problem with the MCPS No Homework in elementary school as a problem. This started about 13 years ago in MCPS and was the dumb idea of Central Office administrators. Parents have an uphill battle when teachers give a mixed message that homework is optional. But sure - blame parents if their children don’t do homework that the teacher doesn’t grade, review mistakes, or hold them accountable for.

The part that is shocking to me is that they don’t provide any feedback. It was my experience that when homework was graded it was just marked off for wrong answers but there was not explanation of why they got it wrong. How does learning happen without feedback?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

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I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

MCPS would rather fight families before doing what it takes to implement the IEPs. Discrimination against students with disabilities is very real in MCPS and Dr. McKnight nor Diana Wyles have a plan to fill the vacancies or to improve Special Education in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

MCPS would rather fight families before doing what it takes to implement the IEPs. Discrimination against students with disabilities is very real in MCPS and Dr. McKnight nor Diana Wyles have a plan to fill the vacancies or to improve Special Education in MCPS.

#fakenews

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

MCPS would rather fight families before doing what it takes to implement the IEPs. Discrimination against students with disabilities is very real in MCPS and Dr. McKnight nor Diana Wyles have a plan to fill the vacancies or to improve Special Education in MCPS.

#fakenews

No, its not. There is a severe shortage of special ed teachers nationwide, not just in Montgomery County. Many special ed teacher positions this year are filled with long term subs and they are not qualified nor able to teach their students appropriately.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

MCPS would rather fight families before doing what it takes to implement the IEPs. Discrimination against students with disabilities is very real in MCPS and Dr. McKnight nor Diana Wyles have a plan to fill the vacancies or to improve Special Education in MCPS.

+1,000