Root cause of issues at MOCO schools?

[Anonymous]

How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/rich-parents-hurt-schools-economic-segregation.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

[Anonymous]

Yes, this a huge issue. Not the only one, but huge. The elephant in the room. W School Culture alarmed me enough as a teacher at a DCUM-lauded feeder MS, that I can’t imagine sending my own child there or the receiving HS.

[Anonymous]

To stereotype parents and students by the neighborhoods they live in is also alarming. It's a two way street as far as school climate.

[Anonymous]

This is an article to link to, the next time somebody suggest that MCPS should just redo school boundaries. There's no "just" about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, this a huge issue. Not the only one, but huge. The elephant in the room. W School Culture alarmed me enough as a teacher at a DCUM-lauded feeder MS, that I can’t imagine sending my own child there or the receiving HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an article to link to, the next time somebody suggest that MCPS should just redo school boundaries. There's no "just" about it.

Yes people will protest, but that doesn’t mean that MCPS should do nothing or default to insufficient, short-term solutions, which is what they’re doing in many cases of overcrowded schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an article to link to, the next time somebody suggest that MCPS should just redo school boundaries. There's no "just" about it.

Yes people will protest, but that doesn’t mean that MCPS should do nothing or default to insufficient, short-term solutions, which is what they’re doing in many cases of overcrowded schools.

Read the article. It takes a lot of resources for MCPS to do this. "People will protest" doesn't begin to describe it.

[Anonymous]

The article lacks data and substance. However given the one unnamed district used as an example, the school system kept their original course of action, ignored parental input, and remade school boundaries. Sounds like how MCPS likes to operate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The article lacks data and substance. However given the one unnamed district used as an example, the school system kept their original course of action, ignored parental input, and remade school boundaries. Sounds like how MCPS likes to operate.

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The article IS data, basically. An in-depth, qualitative study of rezoning in one small, affluent school district.

[Anonymous]

FYI, we have trouble with entitled parents in DCC schools too. They come in the form of the white crusader who’s trying to “better” the school for just their kid.

[Anonymous]

Root cause is low expectations, crappy curriculum and crappier instruction. Very little differentiation and acceleration.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe you are really saying the root cause of problems in MoCo schools are engaged parents at the W schools. Come on. Although there have been issues, the stats at those schools are well above average and are in no way showing that there is a problem with kids learning. If your goal is to help schools with lower stats by moving the W kids around that is not a problem with the W schools but the home schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe you are really saying the root cause of problems in MoCo schools are engaged parents at the W schools. Come on. Although there have been issues, the stats at those schools are well above average and are in no way showing that there is a problem with kids learning. If your goal is to help schools with lower stats by moving the W kids around that is not a problem with the W schools but the home schools.

Read the article. There's engaged, and then there's what's in the article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe you are really saying the root cause of problems in MoCo schools are engaged parents at the W schools. Come on. Although there have been issues, the stats at those schools are well above average and are in no way showing that there is a problem with kids learning. If your goal is to help schools with lower stats by moving the W kids around that is not a problem with the W schools but the home schools.

+1000 the W schools succeed where others are failing because parents supplement their child's education to make up for the real MCPS problems - an untested curriculum, administrators who are absent more than they are present, the drugs in our schools, and school staff who abuse and sexually harass children.

[Anonymous]

I would love to know an accurate percentage of families that specifically supplement. I don't mean reading together, math facts quizzes, reviewing hw or museum trips. I mean..we have purchased/created a math and language arts curriculum that we set aside time for to make up for MCPS. ANd I don't think any amount of tutoring can make up for the last two concerns.