Teacher exposes the craptastic decline iof MCPS in Reddit rant

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Anonymous wrote:I missed this thread when it was originally posted and the Reddit post sounds about right. It is shocking how irresponsible mcps leadership is and how unconcerned they are about actual student learning.

I have to disagree. MCPS today seems as good as it ever was in terms of opportunity. I feel my kids today are getting a better education at our DCC school than I did at a W 30 years ago. The main difference is the county's demographics are different which largely impacts standardized test averages. My kids had a chance to go to CES, Eastern and RMIB. They're doing great because they are focused on getting the best possible education available. Today, fewer students value traditional education, and that's fine.

Better how? All I see is the school replacing enlightenment values with leftist ideology.

My experience suggests you're uninformed. Yes, the curriculum does take a broader view of the world than when I was a kid and is less Euro-centric, but that's hardly leftist. In fact, it seems better informed. Anyway, their overall grasp of mathematics, reading comprehension and foreign language skills are several years ahead of where I was at. I graduated from a W and went on to an Ivy back in the 90s. My children are far better prepared for college than I was.

You're either not aware or perhaps you just agree with what they're teaching. But the MCPS curriculum is steeped in the oppression narrative.

Completely agree. Also, my kid was not very prepared for college, and couldn’t understand a bit of Spanish after 5 years of the language. The first semester of college was a rude awakening.

Your kid took 5 years of Spanish but couldn’t understand it And neither of you knew this before they got to college??? How exactly is that possible. Did your student never listen, read or try to speak Spanish outside of class? Let’s try this again.

HS tends to focus more on written Spanish than spoken.

+1 Have you never taken a public school middle school or high school language class for non-native speakers? It doesn't move that quickly, and languages take hundreds of hours to acquire basic conversational proficiency. State Department says it takes 600 hours of instruction--kids aren't getting language instruction that frequently to move ahead well--and if the class is 30 kids plus as is typical in MoCo they're barely getting a chance to speak.