We are new to Robert Frost Middle School and Not Impressed

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Anonymous wrote:What is your issue? No one can really help when you’re this vague. My kids had fairly good experiences there. The principal is good.

Another Rockville resident here whose kids went to Robert Frost. My kids both had really good experiences there. Dr. Jones is an excellent principle. What is it about the school you don't like? I am curious.

I just don't like that they won't bend over backward to meet my every whim. They act like kids other than mine matter. It's so crazy!

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Anonymous wrote:Is this the best there is as far as middle school goes?

If I were to list the top MS in the county Frost would be among them, but public education requires you to make an effort to get value from it.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I don’t find the work to be very challenging, it’s too crowded, everybody’s in “advanced” classes. We moved here from a much better school system. But sounds lif this is considered great among you folks I guess there’s no point in moving to another cluster.

Would you share where you moved from?

Am guessing it was another state with small localized school systems. Mine in PA was like this. Much preferred to MCPS.

Likely Massachusetts. OP - thank you for posting. MCPS schools are largely mediocre- and everyone here works for the schools, paid VERY well so they’ve drank the kool-aide. Thanks for speaking up. It was our observation too / coming from DODEA school system.

Our experience has been good to great. Some fantastic teachers and a few duds. Agree that ms curriculum could be more stimulating. Not mcps employee, though I did sub a bit pre covid for some extra cash. Kids went to TPMS and Blair/Wheaton. We are zoned for TPMS and Blair but kids also in magnet programs

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I don’t find the work to be very challenging, it’s too crowded, everybody’s in “advanced” classes. We moved here from a much better school system. But sounds lif this is considered great among you folks I guess there’s no point in moving to another cluster.

Would you share where you moved from?

Am guessing it was another state with small localized school systems. Mine in PA was like this. Much preferred to MCPS.

Likely Massachusetts. OP - thank you for posting. MCPS schools are largely mediocre- and everyone here works for the schools, paid VERY well so they’ve drank the kool-aide. Thanks for speaking up. It was our observation too / coming from DODEA school system.

Our experience has been good to great. Some fantastic teachers and a few duds. Agree that ms curriculum could be more stimulating. Not mcps employee, though I did sub a bit pre covid for some extra cash. Kids went to TPMS and Blair/Wheaton. We are zoned for TPMS and Blair but kids also in magnet programs

We also found MCPS schools to be great after moving here from Mass. I think a lot of these issues are ones the people involved bring to the table. I mean you only reap what you sow.

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Every year the first month involves reassessing all students. Then things do go a bit faster.

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I am not impressed with the curriculum and total lack of homework. But! Dr Jones is amazing. Unlike other schools RFMS is run like a well oiled machine.

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I had three kids go through there recently. Students are great as are most teachers. Leadership poor.

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Google the fire drill of June 2010. It shows how inept the leadership is.

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Anonymous wrote:Google the fire drill of June 2010. It shows how inept the leadership is.

Seriously? You're pissed a bomb threat from 12 years ago didn't go that great because it was hot outside? Only a few entitled parents made a big deal about that day.

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Anonymous wrote:Google the fire drill of June 2010. It shows how inept the leadership is.

Seriously? You're pissed a bomb threat from 12 years ago didn't go that great because it was hot outside? Only a few entitled parents made a big deal about that day.

I blame MCPS leadership and will never let go of my many grudges about these small things. That's why I post my grievances here daily!

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Anonymous wrote:I liked was way more impressed with my child’s middle school experience than my child’s high school experience. This was JW/RM.

That's a shocker. Vast majority of parents I spoke to, and including us, preferred RM to JW, which was completely lackluster, especially the academics. Even my kids are happy to be out of JW and now at RM.

I listened to the JW principal (many years ago) say that MS was about social development more than academics. Agree RM was better.

Maybe if they gave more challenging school work, kids would have less time to be jerks to each other.

What’s the excuse for the people on this thread?