MCPS is no longer a desirable school district

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

Trump is right again

Then we guess that is 85% of Americans since. Most kids are in public school not private or homeschool. And since that’s the majority guess who wins again.

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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.

Amazing opportunities only exist for a small handful of kids...not the masses

Our school stops math at calculus. The arts are basic. The amazing experiences we have are outside and we have to send our kids to college senior year because of the lack of classes. At some schools yes, others no.

But since you can do the DE classes free of charge then opportunity does exist. Are there enough kids to field a class beyond Calculus? If so, the school community should bring this up with the school leadership and note they need a class. If there is not enough, the taking a DE class at the college or a online class from another school is the best use of MCPS resources.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That was not a promotion.

No, but it was a massive save for Crouse and her pension. She is now making around $200K per year working in HR in central office. Nice work if you can get it, even when you don't follow the law and call the police immediately upon learning, as principal, that your students have been raped. She should have been let go.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That was not a promotion.

No, but it was a massive save for Crouse and her pension. She is now making around $200K per year working in HR in central office. Nice work if you can get it, even when you don't follow the law and call the police immediately upon learning, as principal, that your students have been raped. She should have been let go.

She negotiated a deal with Jack Smith. That was now three superintendents ago.

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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?

This is bullsht and you know it unless you think learning S&E bs provides them with a better education. I also went through the system and I certainly do NOT agree with this.

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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.

Amazing opportunities only exist for a small handful of kids...not the masses

If you need that sort of thing and you're interested, it's available.

+1 There are many times more tradecraft options available in MCPS than in my well-regarded suburban HS. You can even do half day of traditional HS and half day of community college programs that let you finish HS with an AA in topics like law enforcement or child development.

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Why even have a rule book if no one uses it. The kids dont have rules and the adults don have rules. Only sleazy backroom money siphoning "deals" to fail upward in order to sit your fat sedintary a$# behind a desk for life. Many other teache4s who took the fall for this chaos probablt didnt even know about the unwritten rules of sleazy backroom deals to attain success. Its not in the rule book which many naive good law abiding teachers follow.

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In the case of Whitman, the education isn’t very good and there is so much grade inflation that they often get into colleges they can’t handle academically.

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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?

This is bullsht and you know it unless you think learning S&E bs provides them with a better education. I also went through the system and I certainly do NOT agree with this.

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Anonymous wrote:In the case of Whitman, the education isn’t very good and there is so much grade inflation that they often get into colleges they can’t handle academically.

Happens a lot of places not just whitman.

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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.

Amazing opportunities only exist for a small handful of kids...not the masses

Our school stops math at calculus. The arts are basic. The amazing experiences we have are outside and we have to send our kids to college senior year because of the lack of classes. At some schools yes, others no.

But since you can do the DE classes free of charge then opportunity does exist. Are there enough kids to field a class beyond Calculus? If so, the school community should bring this up with the school leadership and note they need a class. If there is not enough, the taking a DE class at the college or a online class from another school is the best use of MCPS resources.

How do we get our child there who is not of driving age there? And, why should we when other schools offer it and ours doesn't. And, how would that work with other classes? Can you take off in the middle of the day to drive your kid 30-45 minute each way no traffic plus wait for the class?

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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.

Good riddance. It's people like you who expect the school system to raise your kids are the problem.

I grew up attending a W school, my parents also acted as if the schools were raising me. I've met other public school kids from different systems and states and it doesn't replace parenting.

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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.

Amazing opportunities only exist for a small handful of kids...not the masses

Our school stops math at calculus. The arts are basic. The amazing experiences we have are outside and we have to send our kids to college senior year because of the lack of classes. At some schools yes, others no.

But since you can do the DE classes free of charge then opportunity does exist. Are there enough kids to field a class beyond Calculus? If so, the school community should bring this up with the school leadership and note they need a class. If there is not enough, the taking a DE class at the college or a online class from another school is the best use of MCPS resources.

How do we get our child there who is not of driving age there? And, why should we when other schools offer it and ours doesn't. And, how would that work with other classes? Can you take off in the middle of the day to drive your kid 30-45 minute each way no traffic plus wait for the class?

Ride On bus is free for students. Take the course online. Some HS sites offer classes. Speak with your schools DE coordinator for the best options.

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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.

Amazing opportunities only exist for a small handful of kids...not the masses

Our school stops math at calculus. The arts are basic. The amazing experiences we have are outside and we have to send our kids to college senior year because of the lack of classes. At some schools yes, others no.

But since you can do the DE classes free of charge then opportunity does exist. Are there enough kids to field a class beyond Calculus? If so, the school community should bring this up with the school leadership and note they need a class. If there is not enough, the taking a DE class at the college or a online class from another school is the best use of MCPS resources.

How do we get our child there who is not of driving age there? And, why should we when other schools offer it and ours doesn't. And, how would that work with other classes? Can you take off in the middle of the day to drive your kid 30-45 minute each way no traffic plus wait for the class?

Ride On bus is free for students. Take the course online. Some HS sites offer classes. Speak with your schools DE coordinator for the best options.

Ride on bus would take 2 hours each way and not anywhere close to us. It is a minimum of 75 minutes assuming there is no wait for the bus/metro - two buses and a metro ride. So, that's an all day thing when you include transportation and a class. And, the online don't fit in a schedule if you have after school activities. There are no good options. MCPS should not put kids on advanced tracks if they cannot offer advanced classes later on. And, if online is so bad, why is online ok at MC but not the MVA.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Baffling. . .