No confidence in MCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

What?? Doctors and nurses who are in fact essential went to work everyday also. Does that suddenly mean they are able to abdicate responsibility from parenting? Because they were in person during the pandemic means their kids can show up to school lacking respect, understanding of basic boundaries, and how to spell their name?

That’s like saying because military personnel deploy to war their kids are exempt from acting civilized in school and working to learn. No one believes that and certainly not anyone in the military that serves with honor.

Parenting is parenting and expected regardless.

Wtf are you talking about? Closing school buildings for over a year had consequences. Consequences that were completely predictable. Some other things that have consequences are no discipline in schools, screens in schools and a total failure to teach kids to read. It's hilarious and sad that in light of all of these things you just put your fingers in your ears and screech "bad parents!!!"

No one said that there weren’t consequences. In fact teachers and school districts have been trying to give grace to kids and families for the pandemic. But whether you believe it or not behaviors in school are terrible and a lot of that has to do with parents not providing boundaries before their kids show up to school or enforcing them when schools reach out, or relaying the importance of education. Yes there are kids with special needs but the pandemic did not just multiply the number of kids incapable of controlling themselves. Being able to sit down, shut up, and show respect for peers and teachers is something that starts at home. My kids went through the pandemic as well, but they are not in school being disrespectful, pulling out their phone whenever, or destroying school property for fun, because they know I would rain down unholy hell on them.

Reading can be taught to anyone of any age with enough time, reinforcement, and will (just ask EML students who learn to do it. 90% of whom when they complete the program pass MCAP). Should MCPS have choosen a better ELA curriculum, sure. But they’ve rectified that issue. And guess what, not being in school did not prevent parents from working with their kids in the basics of reading. There are 5 year olds showing up to school who don’t know the alphabet. Why? That can be covered during bathtime.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

What?? Doctors and nurses who are in fact essential went to work everyday also. Does that suddenly mean they are able to abdicate responsibility from parenting? Because they were in person during the pandemic means their kids can show up to school lacking respect, understanding of basic boundaries, and how to spell their name?

That’s like saying because military personnel deploy to war their kids are exempt from acting civilized in school and working to learn. No one believes that and certainly not anyone in the military that serves with honor.

Parenting is parenting and expected regardless.

Wtf are you talking about? Closing school buildings for over a year had consequences. Consequences that were completely predictable. Some other things that have consequences are no discipline in schools, screens in schools and a total failure to teach kids to read. It's hilarious and sad that in light of all of these things you just put your fingers in your ears and screech "bad parents!!!"

No one said that there weren’t consequences. In fact teachers and school districts have been trying to give grace to kids and families for the pandemic. But whether you believe it or not behaviors in school are terrible and a lot of that has to do with parents not providing boundaries before their kids show up to school or enforcing them when schools reach out, or relaying the importance of education. Yes there are kids with special needs but the pandemic did not just multiply the number of kids incapable of controlling themselves. Being able to sit down, shut up, and show respect for peers and teachers is something that starts at home. My kids went through the pandemic as well, but they are not in school being disrespectful, pulling out their phone whenever, or destroying school property for fun, because they know I would rain down unholy hell on them.

Reading can be taught to anyone of any age with enough time, reinforcement, and will (just ask EML students who learn to do it. 90% of whom when they complete the program pass MCAP). Should MCPS have choosen a better ELA curriculum, sure. But they’ve rectified that issue. And guess what, not being in school did not prevent parents from working with their kids in the basics of reading. There are 5 year olds showing up to school who don’t know the alphabet. Why? That can be covered during bathtime.

You and I are clearly not going to agree when you are willing to minimize the impacts of "balanced literacy" in this way. It's really horrifying.

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Clearly to some people schools are not really responsible for anything. Everything that goes wrong is the parents' fault. No wonder there is a mass exodus of everyone with means from the system. Just look at the demographic change of students over the past 5 years.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

As usual you like to pretend all MCPS parents are working from home in their jammies making $200k which is completely divorced from reality.

You lack comprehension. The PP said, any job that could went remote. Teachers could go remote so they did.

No, virtual teaching does not work for the vast majority of students as the current state of affairs clearly shows

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Btw yes that one year and change does still matter. If it doesn't, then that's an argument eliminating a grade. Instead they want to expand prek.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

What?? Doctors and nurses who are in fact essential went to work everyday also. Does that suddenly mean they are able to abdicate responsibility from parenting? Because they were in person during the pandemic means their kids can show up to school lacking respect, understanding of basic boundaries, and how to spell their name?

That’s like saying because military personnel deploy to war their kids are exempt from acting civilized in school and working to learn. No one believes that and certainly not anyone in the military that serves with honor.

Parenting is parenting and expected regardless.

Wtf are you talking about? Closing school buildings for over a year had consequences. Consequences that were completely predictable. Some other things that have consequences are no discipline in schools, screens in schools and a total failure to teach kids to read. It's hilarious and sad that in light of all of these things you just put your fingers in your ears and screech "bad parents!!!"

No one said that there weren’t consequences. In fact teachers and school districts have been trying to give grace to kids and families for the pandemic. But whether you believe it or not behaviors in school are terrible and a lot of that has to do with parents not providing boundaries before their kids show up to school or enforcing them when schools reach out, or relaying the importance of education. Yes there are kids with special needs but the pandemic did not just multiply the number of kids incapable of controlling themselves. Being able to sit down, shut up, and show respect for peers and teachers is something that starts at home. My kids went through the pandemic as well, but they are not in school being disrespectful, pulling out their phone whenever, or destroying school property for fun, because they know I would rain down unholy hell on them.

Reading can be taught to anyone of any age with enough time, reinforcement, and will (just ask EML students who learn to do it. 90% of whom when they complete the program pass MCAP). Should MCPS have choosen a better ELA curriculum, sure. But they’ve rectified that issue. And guess what, not being in school did not prevent parents from working with their kids in the basics of reading. There are 5 year olds showing up to school who don’t know the alphabet. Why? That can be covered during bathtime.

You and I are clearly not going to agree when you are willing to minimize the impacts of "balanced literacy" in this way. It's really horrifying.

Again who minimized the impact of balance literacy? But what has that got to do with kids poor behavior? What does that have to do with kids not showing up prepared for school, or heck showing up at all? What does balance literacy have to do with teachers not being considered essential during the pandemic?

Just because I can recognize where lack of parenting is impacting kids and the classroom does not mean I minimize problems with balance literacy.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

As usual you like to pretend all MCPS parents are working from home in their jammies making $200k which is completely divorced from reality.

You lack comprehension. The PP said, any job that could went remote. Teachers could go remote so they did.

No, virtual teaching does not work for the vast majority of students as the current state of affairs clearly shows

Thats because the parents weren't willing to be active participants in their kids educations.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

As usual you like to pretend all MCPS parents are working from home in their jammies making $200k which is completely divorced from reality.

You lack comprehension. The PP said, any job that could went remote. Teachers could go remote so they did.

No, virtual teaching does not work for the vast majority of students as the current state of affairs clearly shows

Thats because the parents weren't willing to be active participants in their kids educations.

How dare they hold jobs! You should only use kids if you're wealthy.

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It’s systematic. Us ranks 13th in educational competitiveness, we were #1 a few decades ago. Macro view is that People have changed, schools haven’t.

Teaching to the test is not working. Giant class
Sizes and unnatural demands on kids is backfiring (5 yr olds aren’t designed to sit at desks in a row, have a single 30 min recess etc.) Demographic shifts across the country. Teaching has gotten harder and pay hasn’t kept up. There are also way more job options now than decades ago. The rates of Autism and other developmental disorders are rising adding complexity.

Mcps is its own brand of mess. Above plus demographics have significantly changed in the past 20 years. It’s not the same population as in the 1990s heyday. Rate of poverty affected students jumped. Taxes haven’t kept up with infrastructure needs across the board. And the last few leaders - particularly McKnight - really screwed up. Massive exit of talent, cuts in the wrong places, and questionable ethics.

I like Taylor. Not sure if the needle can be moved too far though.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

What?? Doctors and nurses who are in fact essential went to work everyday also. Does that suddenly mean they are able to abdicate responsibility from parenting? Because they were in person during the pandemic means their kids can show up to school lacking respect, understanding of basic boundaries, and how to spell their name?

That’s like saying because military personnel deploy to war their kids are exempt from acting civilized in school and working to learn. No one believes that and certainly not anyone in the military that serves with honor.

Parenting is parenting and expected regardless.

Wtf are you talking about? Closing school buildings for over a year had consequences. Consequences that were completely predictable. Some other things that have consequences are no discipline in schools, screens in schools and a total failure to teach kids to read. It's hilarious and sad that in light of all of these things you just put your fingers in your ears and screech "bad parents!!!"

No one said that there weren’t consequences. In fact teachers and school districts have been trying to give grace to kids and families for the pandemic. But whether you believe it or not behaviors in school are terrible and a lot of that has to do with parents not providing boundaries before their kids show up to school or enforcing them when schools reach out, or relaying the importance of education. Yes there are kids with special needs but the pandemic did not just multiply the number of kids incapable of controlling themselves. Being able to sit down, shut up, and show respect for peers and teachers is something that starts at home. My kids went through the pandemic as well, but they are not in school being disrespectful, pulling out their phone whenever, or destroying school property for fun, because they know I would rain down unholy hell on them.

Reading can be taught to anyone of any age with enough time, reinforcement, and will (just ask EML students who learn to do it. 90% of whom when they complete the program pass MCAP). Should MCPS have choosen a better ELA curriculum, sure. But they’ve rectified that issue. And guess what, not being in school did not prevent parents from working with their kids in the basics of reading. There are 5 year olds showing up to school who don’t know the alphabet. Why? That can be covered during bathtime.

You and I are clearly not going to agree when you are willing to minimize the impacts of "balanced literacy" in this way. It's really horrifying.

Again who minimized the impact of balance literacy? But what has that got to do with kids poor behavior? What does that have to do with kids not showing up prepared for school, or heck showing up at all? What does balance literacy have to do with teachers not being considered essential during the pandemic?

Just because I can recognize where lack of parenting is impacting kids and the classroom does not mean I minimize problems with balance literacy.

Schools can't just outsource discipline to parents because they aren't willing to do it. Parents can discipline kids for what they do at home and if the school tells them of issues at school, but discipline works best in the setting where the issue occurred.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

As usual you like to pretend all MCPS parents are working from home in their jammies making $200k which is completely divorced from reality.

You lack comprehension. The PP said, any job that could went remote. Teachers could go remote so they did.

No, virtual teaching does not work for the vast majority of students as the current state of affairs clearly shows

Thats because the parents weren't willing to be active participants in their kids educations.

My kid is in K now and I was very clearly told my kid needs to be in school and I can't do what they do at home.

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Anonymous wrote:What exactly is declining for your kids academically or otherwise?
Lots of posts also saying classes are hard or too accelerated and lots of pressure to do well academically. Courses seem rigorous for the most part.
If your kid goes, pays attention and puts in the work to learn, they will learn and succeed.

If kids don’t go, play on their screens instead of pay attention, don’t do the homework or study at home, then they may not succeed so much. All this stuff is the parents’ responsibility and to motivate their kids.

Yes MCPS can change many things but it’s still going to come down to what you and your kid put into to it.

My problem is my kid didn’t work very hard in MCPS and still got pretty good grades. 3.8/4.5. Never learned to study efficiently or any time management skills. The first year of college was brutal for her as she simply wasn’t prepared. And she took 10 AP classes, so it’s not like there wasn’t rigor.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

As usual you like to pretend all MCPS parents are working from home in their jammies making $200k which is completely divorced from reality.

You lack comprehension. The PP said, any job that could went remote. Teachers could go remote so they did.

No, virtual teaching does not work for the vast majority of students as the current state of affairs clearly shows

Thats because the parents weren't willing to be active participants in their kids educations.

How dare they hold jobs! You should only use kids if you're wealthy.

The wealthy parents were the ones pushing reopening. At our lower income school very few kids went back to the hybrid.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

As usual you like to pretend all MCPS parents are working from home in their jammies making $200k which is completely divorced from reality.

You lack comprehension. The PP said, any job that could went remote. Teachers could go remote so they did.

No, virtual teaching does not work for the vast majority of students as the current state of affairs clearly shows

Thats because the parents weren't willing to be active participants in their kids educations.

My kid is in K now and I was very clearly told my kid needs to be in school and I can't do what they do at home.

Of course you can teach you k the basics. Many of us do as MCPS curriculum is weak.

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Anonymous wrote:What exactly is declining for your kids academically or otherwise?
Lots of posts also saying classes are hard or too accelerated and lots of pressure to do well academically. Courses seem rigorous for the most part.
If your kid goes, pays attention and puts in the work to learn, they will learn and succeed.

If kids don’t go, play on their screens instead of pay attention, don’t do the homework or study at home, then they may not succeed so much. All this stuff is the parents’ responsibility and to motivate their kids.

Yes MCPS can change many things but it’s still going to come down to what you and your kid put into to it.

My problem is my kid didn’t work very hard in MCPS and still got pretty good grades. 3.8/4.5. Never learned to study efficiently or any time management skills. The first year of college was brutal for her as she simply wasn’t prepared. And she took 10 AP classes, so it’s not like there wasn’t rigor.

Agree