Time for a mutiny yet? MCPS = crummy math, no grammar, poor writing

[Anonymous]

So when shall we rise up and launch a mutiny? None of us were subjected to a subpar education, so why are we politely going along with the mcps crazy train to mediocrity instead of demanding change?

We shouldn't have to supplement. The schools should be able to equip students for success.

[Anonymous]

I will mutiny on the "snow days"...

[Anonymous]

You can't view education as being confined to school. You just can't. Or your kids will suffer. I get that there are things you want to improve in the County schools. But I think you need to let go of not supplementing.

[Anonymous]

OP, my kids are getting a better education in MCPS than I received, in a small college-town school district in the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. I am satisfied with their MCPS education. It's not perfect, but I don't expect perfection.

However, if you are not happy with the education your children are receiving, then here are some things you can do, in increasing order of involvement and effort:

1. Go to candidate fora for the upcoming Board of Education elections
2. Work for a candidate who is running for a seat on the Board of Education
3. Run for a seat on the Board of Education

[Anonymous]

What’s with all the MCPS bashing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids are getting a better education in MCPS than I received, in a small college-town school district in the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. I am satisfied with their MCPS education. It's not perfect, but I don't expect perfection.

However, if you are not happy with the education your children are receiving, then here are some things you can do, in increasing order of involvement and effort:

1. Go to candidate fora for the upcoming Board of Education elections
2. Work for a candidate who is running for a seat on the Board of Education
3. Run for a seat on the Board of Education

4. Send your kid to private if you don’t like your tuition-free choices

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will mutiny on the "snow days"...

When MCPS closed after Hurricane Isabel, did you also complain because it's supposed to be a "snow day" but there wasn't any snow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s with all the MCPS bashing?

eh, people who have never been exposed to worse school systems have no idea how bad it is out there compared to mcps. Not saying mcps is perfect, and sure, I'm all for making it better, but yea, the relentless bashing gets tiresome.

But I agree with a PP - if you don't like it, get involved. Contact the BOE. Whining on dcum is not going to improve things.

[Anonymous]

I don't get all the bashing either. Husband and I are 2 educated parents with post grad degrees. We are satisfied with MCPS. Yes the curriculum rollout could've been a lot better but other than that, I think academically, my 4th grader is so much more ahead of me than when I was her age at a high performing private school in Asia. Math, no question about it. As for writing,I'm really surprised of the level of writing that she and her peers are producing at our little focus school in upcounty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get all the bashing either. Husband and I are 2 educated parents with post grad degrees. We are satisfied with MCPS. Yes the curriculum rollout could've been a lot better but other than that, I think academically, my 4th grader is so much more ahead of me than when I was her age at a high performing private school in Asia. Math, no question about it. As for writing,I'm really surprised of the level of writing that she and her peers are producing at our little focus school in upcounty.

Agree with this sentiment. Especially in math. That whole "number fluency" concept doesn't make much sense to me but my kids can do things with numbers that I never could at their ages. While I haven't been as wowed with the language arts, I don't see it as lacking either.

[Anonymous]

My kids have been in MCPS since second grade and are now in high school. We are very pleased with their educations.

[Anonymous]

teacher here (many years in the system - enough to have seen three superintendents)

moving to Frederick . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get all the bashing either. Husband and I are 2 educated parents with post grad degrees. We are satisfied with MCPS. Yes the curriculum rollout could've been a lot better but other than that, I think academically, my 4th grader is so much more ahead of me than when I was her age at a high performing private school in Asia. Math, no question about it. As for writing,I'm really surprised of the level of writing that she and her peers are producing at our little focus school in upcounty.

My child is in first grade at a Title 1 school, and I’m impressed with her research and writing skills. I know I didn’t have that in 1st grade and I went to an MCPS school!

[Anonymous]

We have had our share of issues with MCPS over the years. Now our kids are in college and they say they were well prepared by MCPS.

They were not magnet students and they don't attend Ivy schools. But seriously, your DC does not need better math, more grammar and for a teacher to actually correct their writing word by word, every day.

Just because teachers don't grade them against perfection as freshmen in HS doesn't mean they don't get there. Learning in grades K-12 builds up and at least from 2001-2016, MCPS was fine.

[Anonymous]

No, but we plan to move out of MoCo.