How is MCPS teaching HS students who are quarantining?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

I feel bad that teachers have to deal with crazy parents. No wonder teachers are quitting. If your child is such a genius, tell them to self study. Khan Academy now covers many AP courses. Many universities have lectures online that are easy to find using a simple Google search. My guess is that your kid is happy to chill in quarantine but you are freaking out

You are the ass here. Seems like you generally think you know more about other people than you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

I feel bad that teachers have to deal with crazy parents. No wonder teachers are quitting. If your child is such a genius, tell them to self study. Khan Academy now covers many AP courses. Many universities have lectures online that are easy to find using a simple Google search. My guess is that your kid is happy to chill in quarantine but you are freaking out

I don't think the parent complaining about the magnet program understands what is happening at MCPS. The "magnet" isn't special anymore. It's been watered down since they went lottery. The advice you're getting sounds like typical MCPS teacher rebuttal (if the kid is so smart they'll teach themselves, kind of thing). In fact, I just read a comment on the magnet lottery thread saying how there are no issues and the 85-percentiles are doing great in the magnet program, so I'm sure that's what's being reported up the chain. I wouldn't expect a lot of sympathy from MCPS and I'd be careful about complaining. Places like TPES will make life hell for the kids who's parents complain.

My advice to you is tutoring. If you read through some of the other comments, it's the only way the truly gifted are surviving right now. Yes, this is making the kids who do this highly competitive in college admissions while the others flounder, but this is the new reality. Not sure what else to tell you. Sorry.

Weird I had just read about how MCPS had closed the gap and from what I can tell kids are breaking new records with the grand daddy of all standardized tests, the SAT. I just don't get all this doom and gloom.

Really? Please post the link. I'd like to read that.

Hello? Link please?