Anonymous wrote:Made me sick and feel like crying. I have a basis of comparison which is living in a different country recently where teachers had complete autonomy. I found it frustrating then that there was less consistency in terms of curriculum across teachers and across grades, but boy was I wrong. Teachers enjoyed what they were teaching, they were invested because they chose what they wanted to teach, kids were happy (also recess twice daily and tons of field trips), there was no homework till 4th grade, standardized testing in 4th grade only and not to evaluate teachers.
You could SEE that the kids were much less stressed and happier there compared to here. Same with teachers and principal. Much more relaxed. And kids learned. And learned to care about each other. Learning was much more genuine and more was learned, though less was pushed. Our family has suffered a tremendous loss with respect to education coming here. I grew up in the States and it is so sad what has happened and no wonder we now fall so far behind the rest of the world. And MCPS is supposed to be one of the best systems in the country. I don't get it.
Thisis what I try to tell my husband who keeps arguing that we are products of public school and did fine. Public school over 25 yrs ago is apples and oranges compared to public school today and also or kids were not competing globally to the extent that they are now.
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