What are the "worst" schools in MCPS and why?

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Fallsmead Elementary is a military style academy

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Anonymous wrote:Fallsmead Elementary is a military style academy

Really? I have a friend with kids there, and they like it fine. They are not in the military, btw.

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Anonymous wrote:The top students at WJ and BCC are just as good as the top at Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. The student body as a whole is a bit more spread out in achievement.

Correct, those are all great schools and student bodies. The work hard, play sports, take challenging classes and are generally respectful students.

And most are very wealthy kids who have every advantage possible.

Why are people so stupid?

That's right. It's not the goddamn school. It's the MONEY the rich folks pour into the schools.

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This is so, so not true. The teaching at Blair and Northwood is horrible. The principal at Blair wouldn't make it outside the DCC or NEC. The problem is that MCPS assigns the dregs to the poorer schools. These idiots want to move up the ladder and do things that are unthinkable outside the NEC and DCC.

What's the problem with the principal at Blair? I sincerely hope that you don't answer, "She tweets, she takes selfies, and she wants to dismantle the magnet program."

Not the PP. But she cannot spell and write proper English.

The same can be said for lots of posters on DCUM, who apparently have fancy, high-powered jobs.

What's your point? Yes, DCUM posters poster may have poor grammar, but they're not responsible for educating 100s of students and being in a position where they need to be a 'role model' so to speak in regard to grammar.

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This is so, so not true. The teaching at Blair and Northwood is horrible. The principal at Blair wouldn't make it outside the DCC or NEC. The problem is that MCPS assigns the dregs to the poorer schools. These idiots want to move up the ladder and do things that are unthinkable outside the NEC and DCC.

What's the problem with the principal at Blair? I sincerely hope that you don't answer, "She tweets, she takes selfies, and she wants to dismantle the magnet program."

Not the PP. But she cannot spell and write proper English.

The same can be said for lots of posters on DCUM, who apparently have fancy, high-powered jobs.

What's your point? Yes, DCUM posters poster may have poor grammar, but they're not responsible for educating 100s of students and being in a position where they need to be a 'role model' so to speak in regard to grammar.

The principal is not directly responsible for educating 100s of students. Principals don't teach classes.

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Anonymous wrote:The top students at WJ and BCC are just as good as the top at Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. The student body as a whole is a bit more spread out in achievement.

Correct, those are all great schools and student bodies. The work hard, play sports, take challenging classes and are generally respectful students.

And most are very wealthy kids who have every advantage possible.

Why are people so stupid?

That's right. It's not the goddamn school. It's the MONEY the rich folks pour into the schools.

Actually, I fully believe it's the student body. I am a college alumni interviewer and there's just a lot of really neat kids in many of these schools. And no, their parents, who by far both work, are not all "rich folks".

I really hope you are not raising your children with as much hate, fake envy and rage as you seem to have. You energy could be used in much better ways.

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It's a lot easier to be a "neat" kid when you have every advantage (you don't have to worry about money for food and clothes or working a job or taking care of your siblings after school).

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Anonymous wrote:It's a lot easier to be a "neat" kid when you have every advantage (you don't have to worry about money for food and clothes or working a job or taking care of your siblings after school).

+1 .. ofcourse, you could also call a kid who has to work to help support his family, has a parent in jail, and another who is an alcoholic "a neat kid", too.

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I have better understanding of why Jerry Weast left. Clearly he knew what was about to happen to MCPS.

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I know for a fact that when Jerry Weast was the superintendent, there was a lot of complaining about how the schools used to be better and were going to hell in a bucket.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a lot easier to be a "neat" kid when you have every advantage (you don't have to worry about money for food and clothes or working a job or taking care of your siblings after school).

+1 .. ofcourse, you could also call a kid who has to work to help support his family, has a parent in jail, and another who is an alcoholic "a neat kid", too.

Yes, I was thinking that too when I wrote that but I wasn't sure that was the kind of "neat" kid she meant.

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Anonymous wrote:Fallsmead Elementary is a military style academy

Really? I have a friend with kids there, and they like it fine. They are not in the military, btw.

Oh it's terrible a minor infraction will be punished to the fullest extent.

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Anonymous wrote:The top students at WJ and BCC are just as good as the top at Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. The student body as a whole is a bit more spread out in achievement.

Correct, those are all great schools and student bodies. The work hard, play sports, take challenging classes and are generally respectful students.

And most are very wealthy kids who have every advantage possible.

Why are people so stupid?

That's right. It's not the goddamn school. It's the MONEY the rich folks pour into the schools.

Actually, I fully believe it's the student body. I am a college alumni interviewer and there's just a lot of really neat kids in many of these schools. And no, their parents, who by far both work, are not all "rich folks".

I really hope you are not raising your children with as much hate, fake envy and rage as you seem to have. You energy could be used in much better ways.

oh - Thanks for proving my point about people being so stupid! How old are you, btw?

Honey Bunny, the parents of my kids work 2 - sometimes 3 jobs. They don't have have money. They can barely survive day to day.

Go fuck off and stay in your La La Land. Maybe one day reality will make you realize that these "neat" (who uses that word?) kids have every goddamn advantage in the world. Even a $400,000 home is out of reach for many of the kids I teach.

And I'm a hater? lol! I love my students - and I do it by not pitying them to their faces. But I recognize that they're at a disadvantage. You, on the other hand, have no clue.

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oh - Thanks for proving my point about people being so stupid! How old are you, btw?

Honey Bunny, the parents of my kids work 2 - sometimes 3 jobs. They don't have have money. They can barely survive day to day.

Go fuck off and stay in your La La Land. Maybe one day reality will make you realize that these "neat" (who uses that word?) kids have every goddamn advantage in the world. Even a $400,000 home is out of reach for many of the kids I teach.

And I'm a hater? lol! I love my students - and I do it by not pitying them to their faces. But I recognize that they're at a disadvantage. You, on the other hand, have no clue.

You are a real teacher? No wonder MCPS is SO f-ed.

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oh - Thanks for proving my point about people being so stupid! How old are you, btw?

Honey Bunny, the parents of my kids work 2 - sometimes 3 jobs. They don't have have money. They can barely survive day to day.

Go fuck off and stay in your La La Land. Maybe one day reality will make you realize that these "neat" (who uses that word?) kids have every goddamn advantage in the world. Even a $400,000 home is out of reach for many of the kids I teach.

And I'm a hater? lol! I love my students - and I do it by not pitying them to their faces. But I recognize that they're at a disadvantage. You, on the other hand, have no clue.

You are a real teacher? No wonder MCPS is SO f-ed.

Actually, more teachers like this would make MCPS better.... teachers that love their kids regardless of how "neat" they are or not, and want to teach. And most of the time, the way I write on this forum is not the way I speak or write professionally, either. This is an anonymous forum, not the Harvard Law Review.