Why are Whitman's English Scores So Bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the 2.0 Guinea pigs are now in high school and they were never taught grammar. Additionally, 2.0 monkeyed around with spelling.

When my 2.0 Guinea pig was in 5th grade, the teachers realized that none of the kids could write the most basic 3-5 paragraph essay using the standard rubric. They discovered our school was not alone. The solution was to focus on writing using old fashioned methods. The basically abandoned social studies and science to get the kids caught up.

Mcps is awful. Even the W schools and their feeder schools. They're merely less awful, but still awful.

Because many other schools seem to manage fine, this doesn't seem plausible. It's similar to the mentality in the Churchill thread where they constantly find excuses for everything rather than owning up to the real problem that Whitman isn't the same school it was 20 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the 2.0 Guinea pigs are now in high school and they were never taught grammar. Additionally, 2.0 monkeyed around with spelling.

When my 2.0 Guinea pig was in 5th grade, the teachers realized that none of the kids could write the most basic 3-5 paragraph essay using the standard rubric. They discovered our school was not alone. The solution was to focus on writing using old fashioned methods. The basically abandoned social studies and science to get the kids caught up.

Mcps is awful. Even the W schools and their feeder schools. They're merely less awful, but still awful.

Again it doesn't answer the question as to why other W HSs, and even non W HSs did better than Whitman.

How many lame excuses can people come up with?

[Anonymous]

You need to factor in middle school teachers and curriculum too. That’s who’s supposedly prepping them for HS English. Are the students coming into 9th with a deficit? What’s happening at Pyle?

[Anonymous]

And now no one comes into Whitman having had Mr Lewis

[Anonymous]

who is mr lewis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the 2.0 Guinea pigs are now in high school and they were never taught grammar. Additionally, 2.0 monkeyed around with spelling.

When my 2.0 Guinea pig was in 5th grade, the teachers realized that none of the kids could write the most basic 3-5 paragraph essay using the standard rubric. They discovered our school was not alone. The solution was to focus on writing using old fashioned methods. The basically abandoned social studies and science to get the kids caught up.

Mcps is awful. Even the W schools and their feeder schools. They're merely less awful, but still awful.

Again it doesn't answer the question as to why other W HSs, and even non W HSs did better than Whitman.

How many lame excuses can people come up with?

Let me connect the dots for you.

Because parents at other W schools supplemented, while the lazy Whitman parents did not. They foolishly believed brilliance rubs off as long as your kid walks into a W school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to factor in middle school teachers and curriculum too. That’s who’s supposedly prepping them for HS English. Are the students coming into 9th with a deficit? What’s happening at Pyle?

Pyle is awful.

There's another thread on their lack of acceleration for global humanities. Basically, those teachers are lazily phoning it in.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't there a walk out or something? I thought a bunch of students decided not to take the test.

Also, if you look at the "highly able" student numbers from the magnet school admissions Pyle blows every other middle school out of the water. Pyle is the only feeder to Whitman. It was 1.5 or 2 times more than the next highest including the top Potomac schools which always test very high.