Does your child’s written work get corrected?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Wow! Not my experience at all.

I hate to be critical, but I think you all are getting a bad deal. This is not normal. In Kinder and first, teachers often don't correct spelling or grammar because children haven't been taught those things yet. But third graders? fourth? Fifth? That is a failure of your teacher, school, district. Complain.

Lol. You think I haven't complained? Get real. I did for years but in the end, my feet did the talking. Now my kids are in Catholic high schools. They both needed writing tutors for the first two years because they were so behind. Their Catholic school classmates had had many years of grammar, spelling and quality writing instruction. Now, the content as well as the mechanics count equally. Sad that I had to pay tutors to get them up to speed but someone had to do it. Public schools should be ashamed of what they are producing. It's no wonder so many of their graduates end up in remedial college courses.

That is so interesting to me as a Catholic high school teacher, because at our school the teachers find that the public school kids are pretty far ahead as writers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

When I am scrolling down the recent threads and come to an interesting topic, I click on it without always realizing the forum. So my kids never attended MCPS, but it was the same issue in their district. I switched my son to a private school last year that costs less than 10,000 a year when he was in 4th grade. The first week of school the teacher wrote on one of his assignments, "it is important that you write neatly, copy correctly, and spell accurately. Please re-do this assignment. If you need help I am available after school." He was shocked a teacher would write that. He was used to being graded only on his ideas and thoughts. He has gone through several erasers because his teacher as she is walking around the classroom makes him erase and use proper punctuation, grammar, and spelling (unless they are hard words) no matter what the subject is if he is writing things incorrectly in his workbook.
The quality of his work has vastly improved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

Maybe they are parents who want to come back to public (to save money!) and check to see how parents feel about things. I could see that. Or maybe they teach in MCPS but send their kids to private (we also see that).

Or maybe they want to feel good about the money they are spending so the best way to do it is to bash MCPS at every turn as possible (we see that).

I'm a PP. I don't want to bash anyone! I just wanted you all to know that's not typical across all school districts. I have a lot of sympathy; I would be super frustrated if I were in your shoes!

[Anonymous]

This does not change in middle school either. MCPS is something awful. They have rich parents and tutors to thank for their rankings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

When I am scrolling down the recent threads and come to an interesting topic, I click on it without always realizing the forum. So my kids never attended MCPS, but it was the same issue in their district. I switched my son to a private school last year that costs less than 10,000 a year when he was in 4th grade. The first week of school the teacher wrote on one of his assignments, "it is important that you write neatly, copy correctly, and spell accurately. Please re-do this assignment. If you need help I am available after school." He was shocked a teacher would write that. He was used to being graded only on his ideas and thoughts. He has gone through several erasers because his teacher as she is walking around the classroom makes him erase and use proper punctuation, grammar, and spelling (unless they are hard words) no matter what the subject is if he is writing things incorrectly in his workbook.
The quality of his work has vastly improved.

This makes me want to cry. My middle school daughter just handed in a social studies project that was "OK," but her conclusion didn't make any sense at all. I can almost guarantee you she'll get an A on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Hasn't that already happened somewhat?

My sister runs a business and whenever she needs to hire someone, you should see the resumes she gets! She started administering a quick math test, and a test for things like putting words in alphabetical order, and it's proven to be incredibly difficult for people to pass! These are all high school graduates, and it's a pretty basic test.

Try going to a cashier with cash. They just can’t handle it even with computers tell No them the change. It is pathetic. Even better, if the cost is $10.40 and you given them a twenty and 4 dimes. Completely dumbfounded. I actually had a girl tell me she couldn’t do change like that. I have to give you back what it says on the screen. LOL.

To be fair to that cashier, here is a true story from when I was in high school working as a fast food cashier (so about 25-30 years ago):

Order was for about $8, plus some change. Person gave a $10. Cashier entered $100 in the register. Register/computer said to return $90+ to the person. Cashier followed the screen and gave $90+ back.

We were not allowed to use our registers for making change. The owners would have rather lost a few dimes here and there than $90.

I became excellent at quick math in my head. $10 for $6.62 was $3.38. When people gave me $10.75 for the $6.62 order, it would throw me off and I had to go much slower, sort of like how they did Curriculum 2.0 math. But for handling straight bills, I was really good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Hasn't that already happened somewhat?

My sister runs a business and whenever she needs to hire someone, you should see the resumes she gets! She started administering a quick math test, and a test for things like putting words in alphabetical order, and it's proven to be incredibly difficult for people to pass! These are all high school graduates, and it's a pretty basic test.

Try going to a cashier with cash. They just can’t handle it even with computers tell No them the change. It is pathetic. Even better, if the cost is $10.40 and you given them a twenty and 4 dimes. Completely dumbfounded. I actually had a girl tell me she couldn’t do change like that. I have to give you back what it says on the screen. LOL.

To be fair to that cashier, here is a true story from when I was in high school working as a fast food cashier (so about 25-30 years ago):

Order was for about $8, plus some change. Person gave a $10. Cashier entered $100 in the register. Register/computer said to return $90+ to the person. Cashier followed the screen and gave $90+ back.

We were not allowed to use our registers for making change. The owners would have rather lost a few dimes here and there than $90.

I became excellent at quick math in my head. $10 for $6.62 was $3.38. When people gave me $10.75 for the $6.62 order, it would throw me off and I had to go much slower, sort of like how they did Curriculum 2.0 math. But for handling straight bills, I was really good.

Sorry for off-topic, but why did people give you 10.75 for the 6.62 order? You usually give the cashier the first amount that exceeds your bill if you can't find exact change. Should have been 10!

[Anonymous]

I think that the curricula are trying to teach so much that the teachers don't have the time to focus on the basics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Hasn't that already happened somewhat?

My sister runs a business and whenever she needs to hire someone, you should see the resumes she gets! She started administering a quick math test, and a test for things like putting words in alphabetical order, and it's proven to be incredibly difficult for people to pass! These are all high school graduates, and it's a pretty basic test.

Try going to a cashier with cash. They just can’t handle it even with computers tell No them the change. It is pathetic. Even better, if the cost is $10.40 and you given them a twenty and 4 dimes. Completely dumbfounded. I actually had a girl tell me she couldn’t do change like that. I have to give you back what it says on the screen. LOL.

To be fair to that cashier, here is a true story from when I was in high school working as a fast food cashier (so about 25-30 years ago):

Order was for about $8, plus some change. Person gave a $10. Cashier entered $100 in the register. Register/computer said to return $90+ to the person. Cashier followed the screen and gave $90+ back.

We were not allowed to use our registers for making change. The owners would have rather lost a few dimes here and there than $90.

I became excellent at quick math in my head. $10 for $6.62 was $3.38. When people gave me $10.75 for the $6.62 order, it would throw me off and I had to go much slower, sort of like how they did Curriculum 2.0 math. But for handling straight bills, I was really good.

Sorry for off-topic, but why did people give you 10.75 for the 6.62 order? You usually give the cashier the first amount that exceeds your bill if you can't find exact change. Should have been 10!

DP. So that you get a whole bill back.. So that you would get 4 dollars back instead of 3. Also, they might give $11.75 and get a 5 dollar bill back instead of 4 ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that the curricula are trying to teach so much that the teachers don't have the time to focus on the basics.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

When I am scrolling down the recent threads and come to an interesting topic, I click on it without always realizing the forum. So my kids never attended MCPS, but it was the same issue in their district. I switched my son to a private school last year that costs less than 10,000 a year when he was in 4th grade. The first week of school the teacher wrote on one of his assignments, "it is important that you write neatly, copy correctly, and spell accurately. Please re-do this assignment. If you need help I am available after school." He was shocked a teacher would write that. He was used to being graded only on his ideas and thoughts. He has gone through several erasers because his teacher as she is walking around the classroom makes him erase and use proper punctuation, grammar, and spelling (unless they are hard words) no matter what the subject is if he is writing things incorrectly in his workbook.
The quality of his work has vastly improved.

This makes me want to cry. My middle school daughter just handed in a social studies project that was "OK," but her conclusion didn't make any sense at all. I can almost guarantee you she'll get an A on it.

Yup. And then get a weighted 5.0 for it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This does not change in middle school either. MCPS is something awful. They have rich parents and tutors to thank for their rankings.

Agree. My oldest moved to private in 6th and she received a 10% on her vocab pretest for the year. It was so humiliating until her teacher asked if she came from MCPS. She says “ It’s okay, we will get her up to speed quickly. It happens to all of the new MCPS kids. They don’t teach vocabulary, grammar, letter or paragraph structure.”

Her and 3 other kids stayed after school 2x a week for an hour the first month so that awesome teacher could help them. Any papers or oral assignments were written up hard. Many asked for rewrites. You can do this when the class size is 15. We never realized how bad it was until we moved. My youngest two are still in public. I try my best, but unless the teacher says there is an issue, there isn’t in their eyes. I am just a nagging mom. Crappy work getting checks or A’s. No writing on 2 full pages of messed up writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This does not change in middle school either. MCPS is something awful. They have rich parents and tutors to thank for their rankings.

Agree. My oldest moved to private in 6th and she received a 10% on her vocab pretest for the year. It was so humiliating until her teacher asked if she came from MCPS. She says “ It’s okay, we will get her up to speed quickly. It happens to all of the new MCPS kids. They don’t teach vocabulary, grammar, letter or paragraph structure.”

Her and 3 other kids stayed after school 2x a week for an hour the first month so that awesome teacher could help them. Any papers or oral assignments were written up hard. Many asked for rewrites. You can do this when the class size is 15. We never realized how bad it was until we moved. My youngest two are still in public. I try my best, but unless the teacher says there is an issue, there isn’t in their eyes. I am just a nagging mom. Crappy work getting checks or A’s. No writing on 2 full pages of messed up writing.

Cool story bro.
Is the private schools forum too boring for you guys?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This does not change in middle school either. MCPS is something awful. They have rich parents and tutors to thank for their rankings.

Agree. My oldest moved to private in 6th and she received a 10% on her vocab pretest for the year. It was so humiliating until her teacher asked if she came from MCPS. She says “ It’s okay, we will get her up to speed quickly. It happens to all of the new MCPS kids. They don’t teach vocabulary, grammar, letter or paragraph structure.”

Her and 3 other kids stayed after school 2x a week for an hour the first month so that awesome teacher could help them. Any papers or oral assignments were written up hard. Many asked for rewrites. You can do this when the class size is 15. We never realized how bad it was until we moved. My youngest two are still in public. I try my best, but unless the teacher says there is an issue, there isn’t in their eyes. I am just a nagging mom. Crappy work getting checks or A’s. No writing on 2 full pages of messed up writing.

Cool story bro.
Is the private schools forum too boring for you guys?

Hey bitch. I have 3 kids and 2 of them are in MCPS. Sorry that you have extremely poor reading comprehension. Sitting here with your rude posts just because you don't have a comparison and don't like the one I post. MCPS is subpar. They don't teacher spelling, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, writing structure, etc... They don't even have tests for kids. Prior to 2.0 there used to be at least math and spelling tests. Then they took those away and gave out P's for grades. They have nothing but MAP scores now 3x a year. They do not get their kids prepared for middle school. Not in writing. Not in study skills. Not in critical thinking. You can think they do because they grade so easy, on a curve, and extremely weighted, so most average and above kids get all A's. Go look at the college board and watch the parents struggling with how their perfect 4.8 GPA child is getting denied at all of these schools. I had the head of admissions of a local college flat out tell us they have to restructure all the MCPS grades to a different system to compare them to other kids. So I know MCPS very well. I was involved in fighting 2.0 when it was implemented. I wrote multiple emails about the terrible grading system and thankfully that was partly changed. The loss of teacher comments on the report card, the glitches of the MAP testing, the lack of paraeducators in the K classrooms (they used to be in every class.). None of those have been changed.

So don't sit here and berate me for having one child in private and telling me I can't be here. You probably haven't helped in one classroom, gone to one MCPS board meeting, or even typed an email to a principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This does not change in middle school either. MCPS is something awful. They have rich parents and tutors to thank for their rankings.

Agree. My oldest moved to private in 6th and she received a 10% on her vocab pretest for the year. It was so humiliating until her teacher asked if she came from MCPS. She says “ It’s okay, we will get her up to speed quickly. It happens to all of the new MCPS kids. They don’t teach vocabulary, grammar, letter or paragraph structure.”

Her and 3 other kids stayed after school 2x a week for an hour the first month so that awesome teacher could help them. Any papers or oral assignments were written up hard. Many asked for rewrites. You can do this when the class size is 15. We never realized how bad it was until we moved. My youngest two are still in public. I try my best, but unless the teacher says there is an issue, there isn’t in their eyes. I am just a nagging mom. Crappy work getting checks or A’s. No writing on 2 full pages of messed up writing.

Cool story bro.
Is the private schools forum too boring for you guys?

Hey bitch. I have 3 kids and 2 of them are in MCPS. Sorry that you have extremely poor reading comprehension. Sitting here with your rude posts just because you don't have a comparison and don't like the one I post. MCPS is subpar. They don't teacher spelling, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, writing structure, etc... They don't even have tests for kids. Prior to 2.0 there used to be at least math and spelling tests. Then they took those away and gave out P's for grades. They have nothing but MAP scores now 3x a year. They do not get their kids prepared for middle school. Not in writing. Not in study skills. Not in critical thinking. You can think they do because they grade so easy, on a curve, and extremely weighted, so most average and above kids get all A's. Go look at the college board and watch the parents struggling with how their perfect 4.8 GPA child is getting denied at all of these schools. I had the head of admissions of a local college flat out tell us they have to restructure all the MCPS grades to a different system to compare them to other kids. So I know MCPS very well. I was involved in fighting 2.0 when it was implemented. I wrote multiple emails about the terrible grading system and thankfully that was partly changed. The loss of teacher comments on the report card, the glitches of the MAP testing, the lack of paraeducators in the K classrooms (they used to be in every class.). None of those have been changed.

So don't sit here and berate me for having one child in private and telling me I can't be here. You probably haven't helped in one classroom, gone to one MCPS board meeting, or even typed an email to a principal.

You want a cookie, bitch?
That's all you do: bitching.
You are not happy? Just move for f**king kids to privates