salaray and benefits: independent vs MCPS for experienced teacher returning to work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

we have many family friends whose children are students at BCC, and they have often expressed concern about the fact that their kids aren't learning to research and write a long paper (10-15 pp). I have frequently heard the same thing from parents at Whitman and WJ.

My kids go to one the inferior Silver Spring schools that everyone is afraid of, and are just in regular plain old honors classes, except for AP history/English (10th and 11th grade). They write (very good) research papers--I guess it's a just a problem at BCC/Whitman/WJ. Hmm.

Mine does too. He is at a Silver Spring high school, in honors classes, one AP class (as a junior).

[Anonymous]

The teacher's in private school had good degrees from high quality schools in the subject that they were teaching not the education degree that you see required for public school. They were great teachers but also very knowledgable about their subjects.

But not so hot on punctuation and spelling, huh?