If MCPS is so bad

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS shines in high school imo. The magnet programs , career programs, SAT prep, college counseling, ESL . They really want people to go off to great colleges .

It’s ok in middle school. Meh in elementary. At that age, it’s really the parents job to teach the kids honestly. Teachers aren’t paid much in ES and classroom sizes are too large for them to really focus on one kids development at a time.

I think because private schools are smaller class sizes they’re better for K-8 .

Or MCPS elementary classes have never been over 20, younger grades were more like 15. Maybe private is smaller, but it's always been manageable.

In your dreams!

I'm describing our actual experience. Our daughter's K class was 17, first grade was 13, second grade was 18 (average of 16, I guess, not 15). Other grades are larger (at or around 20), but the largest grade level at her ES right now is 62 kids with 3 teachers.

My older child was in 1st maybe 2017. In ES their classes ranged from 16-18 kids too.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS shines in high school imo. The magnet programs , career programs, SAT prep, college counseling, ESL . They really want people to go off to great colleges .

It’s ok in middle school. Meh in elementary. At that age, it’s really the parents job to teach the kids honestly. Teachers aren’t paid much in ES and classroom sizes are too large for them to really focus on one kids development at a time.

I think because private schools are smaller class sizes they’re better for K-8 .

Or MCPS elementary classes have never been over 20, younger grades were more like 15. Maybe private is smaller, but it's always been manageable.

In your dreams!

I'm describing our actual experience. Our daughter's K class was 17, first grade was 13, second grade was 18 (average of 16, I guess, not 15). Other grades are larger (at or around 20), but the largest grade level at her ES right now is 62 kids with 3 teachers.

Wow where? Our K and 1st have been 25 or more kids. K-2 have 100+ kids per grade level and only 4 teachers per gtade level. Under 20 kids would be amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS shines in high school imo. The magnet programs , career programs, SAT prep, college counseling, ESL . They really want people to go off to great colleges .

It’s ok in middle school. Meh in elementary. At that age, it’s really the parents job to teach the kids honestly. Teachers aren’t paid much in ES and classroom sizes are too large for them to really focus on one kids development at a time.

I think because private schools are smaller class sizes they’re better for K-8 .

Or MCPS elementary classes have never been over 20, younger grades were more like 15. Maybe private is smaller, but it's always been manageable.

In your dreams!

I'm describing our actual experience. Our daughter's K class was 17, first grade was 13, second grade was 18 (average of 16, I guess, not 15). Other grades are larger (at or around 20), but the largest grade level at her ES right now is 62 kids with 3 teachers.

Wow where? Our K and 1st have been 25 or more kids. K-2 have 100+ kids per grade level and only 4 teachers per gtade level. Under 20 kids would be amazing.

It helps to be at a title 1 or focus school for that.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS shines in high school imo. The magnet programs , career programs, SAT prep, college counseling, ESL . They really want people to go off to great colleges .

It’s ok in middle school. Meh in elementary. At that age, it’s really the parents job to teach the kids honestly. Teachers aren’t paid much in ES and classroom sizes are too large for them to really focus on one kids development at a time.

I think because private schools are smaller class sizes they’re better for K-8 .

Or MCPS elementary classes have never been over 20, younger grades were more like 15. Maybe private is smaller, but it's always been manageable.

In your dreams!

I'm describing our actual experience. Our daughter's K class was 17, first grade was 13, second grade was 18 (average of 16, I guess, not 15). Other grades are larger (at or around 20), but the largest grade level at her ES right now is 62 kids with 3 teachers.

Wow where? Our K and 1st have been 25 or more kids. K-2 have 100+ kids per grade level and only 4 teachers per gtade level. Under 20 kids would be amazing.

It helps to be at a title 1 or focus school for that.

Yeah we're at a focus school in Silver Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:I've had kids in the system since 2009. I can say unequivocally that MCPS has fallen dramatically over that 15 year period. Even the best high schools are shells of what they were; Whitman might still be a holdout, but I'm not sure of that at this point. The latest debacle has been the Covid grade inflation leading to colleges essentially throwing MCPS kids into a separate pile. The district, like the County, fell for the equity of outcomes trap hard, and is taking far too long to change course back to sanity--because it's simply too large. Parents in MC should wake up and demand breaking the District up, but that would be immediately painted as "MAGA" or something and it wouldn't go anywhere.

Where do you come up with this BS that colleges are throwing MCPS into a separate pile??? They are not.

DP. Exactly, in fact MCPS dominates UMD college acceptances across the state.

But is only 1/4 of the enrolled students at UMD.

25% of the enrolled students at UMD are from MCPS? That's a high stat!