A wise and sincere educational leader would want to see the effects of such policies using the outside metric of State exams over the next 3 years. Only a fox would make such draconian changes to the MCPS educational track then turn a blind eye to outside annual exams (for 3 years) to monitor or gauge effects of such draconian changes.
To Starr: If one makes swift and significant pertubations to the educational system and process you had better monitor closely the effects of such changes on the performance of your students (internally and externally). Burying your head in the ground for 3 years and avoiding external assessment is not permitted. When you make radical changes to a system (e.g., eliminate subject acceleration, change the grading and student assessment system) you simply DO NOT eliminate well established outside or external annual metrics of your educational program. Such longstanding validated information is a vital check, comparator, measure of internal tinkering. Education 101, Mr Starr. |
Your post makes a great deal of sense. Interesting. Now what should we do to make sure our children are prepped if we are not going to get tested by MCPS? We are not interested in going back to lack of accountability of public schools. I think we can work with this... your thoughts? |
Oops I mistyped. I meant to write the lack of accountability of private schools. |