Is your child’s learning gaps being filled in?
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Anonymous
Not quite all assessing. They can also just ask, and view in person but not take pictures or make a copy. Just ask the teacher, but by HS I’m wondering without special needs, why are the parents so involved? |
Anonymous
They are better at taking tests because they are tested all of the time! Teacher here. I teach kindergarten in MD (not MCPS) and I feel like all we do is test students. It's constant. |
Anonymous
+1. No assessments are sent home and DC can’t learn from mistakes in elementary school. Also, all writing is kept in the classroom until June when it is finally sent home. |
Anonymous
My daughter gets her work sent home all the time. If the teacher kept all the papers in the classroom they would have a mountain of paper the size of Mount Everest judging by the amount of worksheets and activities and crafts that she brings home on a weekly basis. |
Anonymous
Lol. It's sad how the MCPS crowd puff themselves up to look good. If you look at the High School statistics, you also need to take into account the number of children who did not take the SAT (surprisingly high) or overall readiness for college according to UofM standards. If you use a zero for every child who didn't take the SAT, the numbers look very different. |
Anonymous
Haha. Our fcps schools never address gaps. We are completely on our own. OP, last year my freshman’s grades took a huge nose dive, and I didn’t realize how bad it was until final rolling grades came out and it was too late. I really hate the rolling grade book concept. We will now spend the next 3 years doing all we can with tutors to try to boost his gpa. Tutors help a lot. It is expensive, but it is the secret to success for most kids. All families I know that have kids in great colleges have extensively used tutors. |
Anonymous
My child’s school doesn’t want me to come in person. They say it’s because of COVID. My child does have multiple disabilities and even IEP meetings are still online. There is a serious breakdown in the educational process if work is kept under lock and key at school. Just send the work home with the student then parents won’t have to bother the teacher with an email or meeting. For my child, using coping strategies during tests (or any high anxiety situation) is a life skill. Seeing the types of mistakes is key in helping my child learn how to learn. It’s more than learning just the general education curriculum. We are supplementing with at home support to make up from the lack of special education services. The regular data points though would help guide the focus of private services. Why are teachers reluctant to send work and assessments home with students anyway? Aren’t they tools for every child to learn from the feedback? Gaps are not being filled in at school so give parents some guidance on what needs to be worked on at home. We understand resources are limited even if a child’s services are supposed to be determined by his needs. Work with families instead of building walls for access so the child can make progress and learn. |
Anonymous
| It’s an honesty and transparency problem. If a school limits the data points and doesn’t show a child’s work examples, it’s easier to check the boxes that a child is making progress and provide passing report card grades when important skills are not being learned. MCPS pats it’s back and says good job while students are being left behind. It’s all PR instead of students first. |
Anonymous
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Online learning was a wake up call as to how low the educational standards have fallen in MCPS. No late penalty and 50% for not doing assignments.
MCPS is full of broken promises to make up for shuttering schools for 18 months. Dr. McKnight needs to focus less on PR stunts and focus more on effectively managing the school system. |
Anonymous
As a parent, you can monitor your child's school work and make sure they turn it in on time and it is complete. |
Anonymous
I and almost all of my friends took SAT prep classes (not expensive one on one tutoring, but affordable group classes) in the 80s, and we were in a mostly blue collar, middle class school (real middle class, not DCUM $400K self-professed “middle class”). Our families understood how important SAT scores were for college, prioritized our education and didn’t just dig in their heels and demand that public schools be all things for their children. |
Anonymous
Why do some folks like to post false information? It's usually in the mid 70's to 80 percent of MCPS seniors take the SAT; a much, much higher participation rate than any school district in the area. |
Anonymous
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Math and foreign languages are the areas that are most impacted by learning gaps. Skills build from unit to unit and year to year. MCPS is ignoring this problem so some students are dropping foreign language or struggling in their current math placement.
MCPS needs to do something about this problem. Give assessments and in school tutoring services to target the students with learning losses. Sitting back and doing nothing shows lack of leadership. Universal testing is not being done because MCPS wants to hide a problem vs. fixing a problem. The Board of Ed flat out doesn’t care to require MCPS to address problems. |
Anonymous
And yet far more take it now than 20 years ago which contradicts your narrative. Scores today are higher and more kids take it today. |
Anonymous
Why should MCPS have to do something about this? The entire problem only affects students who decided to drop out of school during DL. Maybe it's their parents fault but still why should all the kids who actually did the work be penalized and forced to go back over this material. |