MCPS is cuttting compacted math and cohorted literacy enrichment

[Anonymous]

This will make sure the downward trend in proficiency scores across MCPS continues. Because this is the plan clearly. MCPS will request more billions from the county and our taxes will go up.
I am thinking to apply at MCPS, seems like the perfect sinecure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Except in the wealthier schools, many of our kids never got anything in ES or MS.

When CM was really for the advanced kids, and not for those whose parents were pushy, the 5 or 6 kids in our ES took a bus to the MS for acceleration.

Then some parents pushed for their kids to be in CM, so more than half the grade got pushed into CM which they then offered at the ES. I volunteered there, and it was clear that many kids did not belong in that class. I was thinking my youngest should probably be on track, not accelerated, but the teacher told me that because so many kids were pushed into CM, the kids left in the "on track" class were very behind, and my kid would be completely bored. It became opposite extremes with nothing in the middle.

That said, I'm super glad my kids will be out of MCPS. CM was necessary for one of my kids, who is now in college as a dual math/STEM major, getting a 4.0.

The dumbing down of MoCo kids. This will hurt those whom MCPS is trying to help the most. Some parents will just get tutors or teach their kids at home so their kids will be more advanced come HS so that they can take AP BC calc in 11th grade. It's the kids whose parents don't have the means/will to do the same who will suffer the most in the end.

Again, you were at a wealthier school. For us, we had CM, but friends didn't and no kidsi were bussed to the MS. In MS and HS, some kids were, including mine, but as parents we had to drive them (again, look at the disparities). And, it was a fight to get them to be able to take a class at another school. Some kids skip AB, and do BC in 10th. You use other kids as talking points, when they are our kids that are the ones going without and suffering. Our school lacks stem, and its going to be an issue with college acceptances.

If no kids were bussed to the MS back then for CM, then there probably weren't any kids who needed CM back then.

So, because you couldn't have it, no one else should? Wow. That's like "everyone gets a trophy for just showing up" parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This will make sure the downward trend in proficiency scores across MCPS continues. Because this is the plan clearly. MCPS will request more billions from the county and our taxes will go up.
I am thinking to apply at MCPS, seems like the perfect sinecure.

Yep, we are planning to move out of MoCo as soon as we can. This is our last year in MCPS, thank goodness. Writing is on the wall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This will make sure the downward trend in proficiency scores across MCPS continues. Because this is the plan clearly. MCPS will request more billions from the county and our taxes will go up.
I am thinking to apply at MCPS, seems like the perfect sinecure.

Yep, we are planning to move out of MoCo as soon as we can. This is our last year in MCPS, thank goodness. Writing is on the wall.

to add.. it's one thing if our taxes go up and we get more services and students are doing well, but here, we are getting taxed up the nose, the achievement is down, and any type of acceleration is being removed. What the h3ll are we paying sky high taxes for?

[Anonymous]

This is terrible. My kid was in 4/5 math this year and it's been so good for her. Moved fast and kept everyone's attention. It was a great cohort that didn't go to CES and such a productive year. So now she'll repeat 5th grade math instead of going into 5/6 math?

[Anonymous]

So, there will be compacted math & advanced languages (CES) for rising 4th grader in the fall 2026 & rising ENROLLED compacted math CES 5th graders? When is the final decisions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, there will be NO compacted math & advanced languages (CES) for rising 4th grader in the fall 2026 & rising ENROLLED compacted math CES 5th graders? When is the final decisions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once students get to middle school, are they tracked then? In Elementary, I can't understand how one teacher will teach multiple sets of clusters in a classroom that may be as large as 28 students. Right now, "enrichment" means extra worksheets or computer games. Will the "accel" just be more of this?

It is insane they are just introducing this now and trying to roll it out next year.

Yes, it shows middle school "tracking"/different middle school classes based on level continuing. Basically the same three pathways as now-- either math 6, math 7, and math 8; AMP 6+/7+ and then starting algebra in 8th; or pre-algebra in 6th and then starting algebra in 7th.

(I wouldn't read anything into the lack of 6th grade Algebra 1 on the chart-- that has always been extremely rare, not possible in all schools, and I don't think they ever put it on their formal presentations.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, there will be compacted math & advanced languages (CES) for rising 4th grader in the fall 2026 & rising ENROLLED compacted math CES 5th graders? When is the final decisions?

For now the CES program still exists, but the writing on the wall for the CES is coming...

In non-magnet schools there will only be mixed-skill CKLA classes with "enrichment" (no more cohorting). And it appears no compacted math for any grade, CES or not.

[Anonymous]

This data is disingenuous as it doesn't look where model 1 and model 2 were implemented. It works in some schools to have model 2 but not in others. Principals know their schools and population. For us model 1 means fewer disruptions to learning and kids being more focused on challenging content and everyone in class doing the same thing. This individual differentiation and enrichment is not possible in classes over 15 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, there will be compacted math & advanced languages (CES) for rising 4th grader in the fall 2026 & rising ENROLLED compacted math CES 5th graders? When is the final decisions?

For now the CES program still exists, but the writing on the wall for the CES is coming...

In non-magnet schools there will only be mixed-skill CKLA classes with "enrichment" (no more cohorting). And it appears no compacted math for any grade, CES or not.

They will kill CES. No reading novels for anyone now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, there will be compacted math & advanced languages (CES) for rising 4th grader in the fall 2026 & rising ENROLLED compacted math CES 5th graders? When is the final decisions?

For now the CES program still exists, but the writing on the wall for the CES is coming...

In non-magnet schools there will only be mixed-skill CKLA classes with "enrichment" (no more cohorting). And it appears no compacted math for any grade, CES or not.

They will kill CES. No reading novels for anyone now.

+1. It's so depressing. We have to make sure no one gets a quality education, to do otherwise is inequitable.

[Anonymous]

Equity is about making sure every child has what they need to thrive to their fullest potential. The board and district are not doing equity. Instead they're cutting gifted students off at the knees. This isn't okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Equity is about making sure every child has what they need to thrive to their fullest potential. The board and district are not doing equity. Instead they're cutting gifted students off at the knees. This isn't okay.

Keep voting the Apple Ballot! This is their goal.

[Anonymous]

Shame on Niki Porter. You already went and ruined access to CES and magnets with your ridiculous lottery, and dismantled ELC, which people loved. You’re watering down the most successful high school programs. And now this.

Teachers DO NOT differentiate. Their classes are too big, they are pressured by admin to focus on the students below grade level, who exist in every school even the better resourced schools. No one is giving them any time, resources or incentive to provide acceleration or enrichment in a mixed ability classroom and there is no accountability mechanism to check and see.

What I would love to hear out of Niki Porter is why. Why why why do you want to keep preventing the kids demonstrating academic need and readiness for above grade level instruction from accessing appropriate learning and instruction. We test these kids up the wazoo and you have plenty of data indicating lexile levels, mastery of algebraic concepts, etc. The data shows you are teaching them using materials well below where you should be. Lumping all kids together regardless of readiness helps NO ONE. Why why why do you want to do that which harms kids and helps no one?!