Is MCPS Superintendent Starr stupid?

[Anonymous]

What is this dude trying to say? Wait. I get it. He’s taking all MoCo children to Mars. To build a rocket he’s assembled a bunch of “average” people who are the best collaborators and team members. They aren’t necessarily the best qualified engineers and scientists. But he wants you to pay them well.
10, 9, 8, … yo, collaborator what comes after 8? Hang on; the rocket engine is falling apart.
Hasn’t MoCo figured out that it is funding a failed mission?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Starr has an agenda. he is against labeling some kids as gifted and therefore providing them with an appropriate education. He sees differentiation as elitist.

Of course he's right in the sense that intelligence alone doesn't guarantee success or even the ability to collaborate effectively. But it's an empty, silly observation to make on Twitter and it tips his hand to his ultimate goal -- teach to the middle because it creates better stnadardized test results.

Dude. It wasn't about your snowflake. Power down the chopper.

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+1 billion. Doesn't the mommy brigade have something better to do than monitor the school superintendant's tweets? Seriously, get a life, get a job.

Spoken like someone who doesn't have a gifted kid.

I often wonder that is why some here likes him while others do not.

Yeah, right, that's it: only parents with truly gifted children have the sublime intelligence to spend their days obsessing over tweets from a school official and calling him names on a public message board. Anyone who doesn't have a voodoo doll with Starr's name on it must have an - omg - average child. Oh, the horror of it all. Thank God for your brilliance and the exceptional children you are raising who will save the world from mediocrity.

[Anonymous]

Get to know Starr

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/josh-starr-new-montgomery-county-superintendent_n_854655.html
http://www.gtamc.org/Home/announcements-1/aboutdrjoshuastarr
http://themorechild.com/2011/04/25/buh-bye-jerry-hello-josh/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Starr has an agenda. he is against labeling some kids as gifted and therefore providing them with an appropriate education. He sees differentiation as elitist.

Of course he's right in the sense that intelligence alone doesn't guarantee success or even the ability to collaborate effectively. But it's an empty, silly observation to make on Twitter and it tips his hand to his ultimate goal -- teach to the middle because it creates better stnadardized test results.

Agree. Plus teaching the top doesn't get Fed dollars like focusing on the bottom does.

Ways to bring up the AVERAGE test score and close the achievement gap: focus on the bottom, dumb down the top, or both.

[Anonymous]

He has begun to dumb down the top. The most prestigious magnet program is being dismantled from inside.

Montgomery County parents need to wake up to what is happening.

[Anonymous]

"Dumbing down the top" would lower the average test score, not raise it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has begun to dumb down the top. The most prestigious magnet program is being dismantled from inside.

Montgomery County parents need to wake up to what is happening.

Can you elaborate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Starr has an agenda. he is against labeling some kids as gifted and therefore providing them with an appropriate education. He sees differentiation as elitist.

Of course he's right in the sense that intelligence alone doesn't guarantee success or even the ability to collaborate effectively. But it's an empty, silly observation to make on Twitter and it tips his hand to his ultimate goal -- teach to the middle because it creates better stnadardized test results.

Dude. It wasn't about your snowflake. Power down the chopper.

LOLOLOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Dumbing down the top" would lower the average test score, not raise it.

But it would close the "achievement gap" which appears to be his highest priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dumbing down the top" would lower the average test score, not raise it.

But it would close the "achievement gap" which appears to be his highest priority.

Seriously? Closing the achievement gap does not mean lowering the top scores. There are some really paranoid folks here on this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Starr has an agenda. he is against labeling some kids as gifted and therefore providing them with an appropriate education. He sees differentiation as elitist.

Of course he's right in the sense that intelligence alone doesn't guarantee success or even the ability to collaborate effectively. But it's an empty, silly observation to make on Twitter and it tips his hand to his ultimate goal -- teach to the middle because it creates better stnadardized test results.

Dude. It wasn't about your snowflake. Power down the chopper.

+1

+1 billion. Doesn't the mommy brigade have something better to do than monitor the school superintendant's tweets? Seriously, get a life, get a job.

Spoken like someone who doesn't have a gifted kid.

I often wonder that is why some here likes him while others do not.

Yeah, right, that's it: only parents with truly gifted children have the sublime intelligence to spend their days obsessing over tweets from a school official and calling him names on a public message board. Anyone who doesn't have a voodoo doll with Starr's name on it must have an - omg - average child. Oh, the horror of it all. Thank God for your brilliance and the exceptional children you are raising who will save the world from mediocrity.

You're welcome.

Seriously -- it's our job as parents to advocate for the best education for our kids. Teaching towards mediocrity does no one any good -- except school officials who live and die by test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dumbing down the top" would lower the average test score, not raise it.

But it would close the "achievement gap" which appears to be his highest priority.

Seriously? Closing the achievement gap does not mean lowering the top scores. There are some really paranoid folks here on this thread.

Do some research and you will see that this is exactly what they are doing -- playing a zero sum game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dumbing down the top" would lower the average test score, not raise it.

But it would close the "achievement gap" which appears to be his highest priority.

Seriously? Closing the achievement gap does not mean lowering the top scores. There are some really paranoid folks here on this thread.

Do some research and you will see that this is exactly what they are doing -- playing a zero sum game.

As I said, there are some paranoid folks here (and perhaps a few sock puppets).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dumbing down the top" would lower the average test score, not raise it.

But it would close the "achievement gap" which appears to be his highest priority.

Seriously? Closing the achievement gap does not mean lowering the top scores. There are some really paranoid folks here on this thread.

Do some research and you will see that this is exactly what they are doing -- playing a zero sum game.

As I said, there are some paranoid folks here (and perhaps a few sock puppets).

You can never underestimate the stupidity of some of these so called educators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Dumbing down the top" would lower the average test score, not raise it.

The top has topped it out. Dumbing them down will not lower the average. At the same time, teach them better will not improve the average either because they top out. This is the insidious side effects of standardized testing. You bet this is what is going on. Read the book "the good school."