Does your child’s written work get corrected?

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Anonymous wrote:This does not change in middle school either. MCPS is something awful. They have rich parents and tutors to thank for their rankings.

Agree. My oldest moved to private in 6th and she received a 10% on her vocab pretest for the year. It was so humiliating until her teacher asked if she came from MCPS. She says “ It’s okay, we will get her up to speed quickly. It happens to all of the new MCPS kids. They don’t teach vocabulary, grammar, letter or paragraph structure.”

Her and 3 other kids stayed after school 2x a week for an hour the first month so that awesome teacher could help them. Any papers or oral assignments were written up hard. Many asked for rewrites. You can do this when the class size is 15. We never realized how bad it was until we moved. My youngest two are still in public. I try my best, but unless the teacher says there is an issue, there isn’t in their eyes. I am just a nagging mom. Crappy work getting checks or A’s. No writing on 2 full pages of messed up writing.

Cool story bro.
Is the private schools forum too boring for you guys?

Hey bitch. I have 3 kids and 2 of them are in MCPS. Sorry that you have extremely poor reading comprehension. Sitting here with your rude posts just because you don't have a comparison and don't like the one I post. MCPS is subpar. They don't teacher spelling, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, writing structure, etc... They don't even have tests for kids. Prior to 2.0 there used to be at least math and spelling tests. Then they took those away and gave out P's for grades. They have nothing but MAP scores now 3x a year. They do not get their kids prepared for middle school. Not in writing. Not in study skills. Not in critical thinking. You can think they do because they grade so easy, on a curve, and extremely weighted, so most average and above kids get all A's. Go look at the college board and watch the parents struggling with how their perfect 4.8 GPA child is getting denied at all of these schools. I had the head of admissions of a local college flat out tell us they have to restructure all the MCPS grades to a different system to compare them to other kids. So I know MCPS very well. I was involved in fighting 2.0 when it was implemented. I wrote multiple emails about the terrible grading system and thankfully that was partly changed. The loss of teacher comments on the report card, the glitches of the MAP testing, the lack of paraeducators in the K classrooms (they used to be in every class.). None of those have been changed.

So don't sit here and berate me for having one child in private and telling me I can't be here. You probably haven't helped in one classroom, gone to one MCPS board meeting, or even typed an email to a principal.

I like you PP. You are straight up. Most parents just shrug and think their kids are fine because they are clueless and always too busy to even care. And for the parents that do complain, their voice stops at the mommy gossip. They won't get involve to make it better. 99% of the families have never been to a PTA meeting, let alone a MCPS board meeting. I am very involved in my kid's schools and it is frustrating the lack of parental involvement. It has very much turned into daycare. Most people will complain, but never do anything about it. I complain all the time too, but I also ask for and help implement changes. I have been the PTA president twice at two different schools and it is exhausting and most parents purposely ignore me, so they don't have to volunteer 1 hour of their life to help a class or a fundraiser. That is just the way the world is these days.