MCPS is no longer a desirable school district

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents will still pick MCPS over PG County any day. #Truth

Yes, but for how long

MCPS is still the most sought after school district in the region. Does it have its issues? Sure but so do all the other districts. Public school systems, except for very small wealthy ones, are going to continue having issues because they are continuously expected to do more and more and serve as the community’s center. We expect schools to be these idyllic places of learning that serve millions of kids, but we also want to be able to decide what that looks, how it’s done, and what’s taught when most folks have no idea about any of it. And we expect it to be similar to 20 years ago when so much about society has changed since then.

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It’s the parents who are ruining MCPS.

IEPs and 504s for everyone. Special accommodations for every kid. Forcing DEI discussions, forcing Unity day on kids. All these things take away from learning.

Parent are also not disciplining their kids at home so they come to school and act like jerks. These kids are distracting teachers and making them feel unsafe.

Kids are also addicted to their phones. The cannot focus in class. Parents are angry school systems are taking away phone.

Kids aren’t learning because they are jerks and their parents are jerks. Stop blaming MCPS.

Now everything's ruined!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents will still pick MCPS over PG County any day. #Truth

Yes, but for how long

MCPS is still the most sought after school district in the region. Does it have its issues? Sure but so do all the other districts. Public school systems, except for very small wealthy ones, are going to continue having issues because they are continuously expected to do more and more and serve as the community’s center. We expect schools to be these idyllic places of learning that serve millions of kids, but we also want to be able to decide what that looks, how it’s done, and what’s taught when most folks have no idea about any of it. And we expect it to be similar to 20 years ago when so much about society has changed since then.

+1

It’s the parents who are ruining MCPS.

IEPs and 504s for everyone. Special accommodations for every kid. Forcing DEI discussions, forcing Unity day on kids. All these things take away from learning.

Parent are also not disciplining their kids at home so they come to school and act like jerks. These kids are distracting teachers and making them feel unsafe.

Kids are also addicted to their phones. The cannot focus in class. Parents are angry school systems are taking away phone.

Kids aren’t learning because they are jerks and their parents are jerks. Stop blaming MCPS.

Now everything's ruined!

The sky is falling!

[Anonymous]

The skys not falling. Its worse, the kids are assaulting eachother and admins covering it up and firing teachers for the craziness in schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to Montgomery County because of the schools, and now, we are moving out for the exact same reason. MCPS has been deteriorating on so many levels over the last decade. It feels like watching a car wreck in slow motion. Our kids deserve better.

MCPS is one of the 20 largest, most diverse (socioeconomically & ethnically) public school systems in the country. Everyone has a different experience. Too bad it didn't work out for you and your family.

I hope you're going to a smaller, generally all-around wealthy district.

For the record, we have been part of the school system for 10+ years and feel our kids have gotten a very good education and will be better prepared for college that most graduating seniors in the US.

I think MCPS does high achieving in the W's well, but I also think those kids would do well anywhere. One of my kids did great and I'd absolutely agree they were very well prepared for college. They even said college was way easier than high school.
The kids in the middle get lost though, especially at the W high schools. It's a really soul sucking place to be if you struggle with academics at all as our second child did.
Anyways just to echo it's a big HUGE district. IMO too big and unwieldy so that those middle kids do get lost.
-not OP

It's this. If you have more than one kid, then MCPS's secret sauce has been revealed to you -- that they count on the children themselves to make them a good school district. If you don't have a naturally high-flying kid or a bank account for tutors, MCPS will not bother teaching your child. Why should they, when they can just count on the other kids to pick up the statistical slack?

I believe this is true. In MCPS relies on parents supplementing with tutors or after-school programs, even in the Magnet Program. It's a vicious cycle, where teachers become unmotivated or think they're doing a stellar job when it's actually the tutor's credit.

For anyone with resources, that works out fine. For anyone without resources, it's a problem.

MCPS spends more time trying to figure out how to swap SES kids at schools (via boundaries or buses) than it does how to fix and boost programs at individual schools or make MCPS academcs the best-of-the-best. When I see teachers posting and blaming parents or the IEP/504 process, I know the system is broken.

The first step will be to clear out the Central Office of staff without 15 years teaching under their belt, or 15 years teaching IEP/504 kids - in actual classrooms. The AEI staff needs to be flushed and staffed with successful teachers, not the ones passed around to other schools.

Without an enema, constipation within MCPS CO will continue.

[Anonymous]

We moved from a smaller but wealthier school district. It was wealthy but couldn't provide gifted programs because it didn't have enough gifted students.

DC was in the magnet programs in MCPS. Grateful for that. My other DC is not in any magnet program but they have the option to take a variety of AP classes.

Having stated that, I do think MCPS doesn't focus enough on academics and instead pays too much attention to non academic programs. Grade inflation is not helping these kids, and neither is the little to no HW policy, especially for math.

I'm also tired of all the scandals and safety issues that MCPS can't seem to deal with, most likely because they don't want to appear racist, but they don't seem to realize that most of the issues impact minority students the most.

I will be happy to be done with mcps in two years. I have seen it go downhill fast in the past 12 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The skys not falling. Its worse, the kids are assaulting eachother and admins covering it up and firing teachers for the craziness in schools.

proof?

[Anonymous]

The proof is in the pudding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The proof is in the pudding

I don't think the sky is falling either, but am skeptical about assaults being covered up. These claims are unprovable. If that had gone on, people would be screaming bloody murder here. There are so many of these super-insiders spreading gossip here it just wouldn't get swept under the rug.

[Anonymous]

The biggest problem today is parents who are unwilling to parent and expect the county to do it for them.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that people moved to MoCo in droves over the past 20 years because of the schools’ reputation. Then the schools got overcrowded and just simply couldn’t deliver the same quality. It’s like opening the 317th Boston Market in a year and wondering why the Mac and cheese isn’t as good. Or buying a beach house in Miami in 2004 because Will Smith said it was the place to be in 1998, then wondering why it’s always flooded and super cheesy. Skate to where the puck is going?

[Anonymous]

Only impoverished, overwhelmed or confused families put their kids in publics . It’s private or homeschool for normal people.

Trump is right again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We moved from a smaller but wealthier school district. It was wealthy but couldn't provide gifted programs because it didn't have enough gifted students.

DC was in the magnet programs in MCPS. Grateful for that. My other DC is not in any magnet program but they have the option to take a variety of AP classes.

Having stated that, I do think MCPS doesn't focus enough on academics and instead pays too much attention to non academic programs. Grade inflation is not helping these kids, and neither is the little to no HW policy, especially for math.

I'm also tired of all the scandals and safety issues that MCPS can't seem to deal with, most likely because they don't want to appear racist, but they don't seem to realize that most of the issues impact minority students the most.

I will be happy to be done with mcps in two years. I have seen it go downhill fast in the past 12 years.

That's so weird. My kids education from MCPS today seems 1000x better than mine 30 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved from a smaller but wealthier school district. It was wealthy but couldn't provide gifted programs because it didn't have enough gifted students.

DC was in the magnet programs in MCPS. Grateful for that. My other DC is not in any magnet program but they have the option to take a variety of AP classes.

Having stated that, I do think MCPS doesn't focus enough on academics and instead pays too much attention to non academic programs. Grade inflation is not helping these kids, and neither is the little to no HW policy, especially for math.

I'm also tired of all the scandals and safety issues that MCPS can't seem to deal with, most likely because they don't want to appear racist, but they don't seem to realize that most of the issues impact minority students the most.

I will be happy to be done with mcps in two years. I have seen it go downhill fast in the past 12 years.

That's so weird. My kids education from MCPS today seems 1000x better than mine 30 years ago.

Honest question. How is it better?

[Anonymous]

Well the violence and the cover ups were all over the news a back in 2018 the cour cases came a couple years later showing that admin refrained from doing their jobs as mandatory reporter. Mcps paid out millions to the kids assaulted. Many teachers reported violence with no support. Some teachers were probably considered turds in the punchbowl for opening up about this epidemic. Oh yeah, and admin benefitted from this incompetence like Crouse getting promoted after her students got the broom hazing. Sometimes i think mcps pr team chooses to forget like they choose to make teachers intimidated to do their jobs as reporters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved from a smaller but wealthier school district. It was wealthy but couldn't provide gifted programs because it didn't have enough gifted students.

DC was in the magnet programs in MCPS. Grateful for that. My other DC is not in any magnet program but they have the option to take a variety of AP classes.

Having stated that, I do think MCPS doesn't focus enough on academics and instead pays too much attention to non academic programs. Grade inflation is not helping these kids, and neither is the little to no HW policy, especially for math.

I'm also tired of all the scandals and safety issues that MCPS can't seem to deal with, most likely because they don't want to appear racist, but they don't seem to realize that most of the issues impact minority students the most.

I will be happy to be done with mcps in two years. I have seen it go downhill fast in the past 12 years.

That's so weird. My kids education from MCPS today seems 1000x better than mine 30 years ago.

Honest question. How is it better?

They study far more advanced subjects and are reading and writing at much higher level than was common back then. This may not be everyone's experience but my point is amazing opportunities exist for anyone who is interested.