Seniors and families: your MCPS experience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go private.

Unfortunately, private is worse than MCPS academically.

+1

Truth, stop poo-pooing MCPS. Its got its issues but so does private school. I know many who move from private to public because of a lack of support.

Go look at instagram. Many kids are posting the great college acceptances at Ivy leagues and T50 schools all over the country. If your kid is not, maybe you should look in he mirror. Maybe you or your kid are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unhappy with the lack of consequences in MCPS for anything the kids do ES through HS. Unhappy with overcrowded schools. Unhappy with HS counselors that have too many kids to manage. Unhappy with crap policies (50% for no effort, no final exams, no decent research papers because the teachers have too many students and don't want to grade 200 10+ page research papers). Very unhappy that they got rid of SROs. Unhappy with current boundary study process

It really varies by school and teacher. Our counselor tries but it is rare and all before her have been bad. They had a full research paper this year.

[Anonymous]

That teachers are in bed with the tutors (literally and not literally). Where is the teaching DURING class? How about going over quiz questions after every student has taken it so students understand the correct answers and receive explanation of why? Or helping students who stop by after class when the student has proactively asked teacher to clarify? Instead teacher: "are you trying to cut your next class" (no, the next period is the student's favorite class!). Teacher not knowing how to teach the material so spends more time trying to make bad (it's not funny) mom/dad jokes. Good for you that you did so well in that class when you took the class back in the day but this is 2023 and you don't know how to teach the damn '23 content. Or teachers who create more drama than teach. Students should be writing that they are in their school's theater program just because they attend athat class and put up with that teacher's drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To families who have HS seniors and are leaving mcps this year: what is one piece of advice or wisdom about mcps or in general you want to leave parents of younger students?

Here's one:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1266671.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go private.

Yes. Do what's best for your kid(s). But that often means private. I have had my kids in both. And post-Covid MCPS has been a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go private.

Yes. Do what's best for your kid(s). But that often means private. I have had my kids in both. And post-Covid MCPS has been a nightmare.

Not everyone can afford to choose the “best” option for their kids. I think MCPS gave my kids a decent education and having not paid 40k a year for a private school-we can set our kids up by helping to fund college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go private.

Yes. Do what's best for your kid(s). But that often means private. I have had my kids in both. And post-Covid MCPS has been a nightmare.

I sent my kids to private schools during the pandemic (when MCPS was not in-person) and 2 years after. I couldn't come back to MCPS fast enough.
Waste of money and money I could never get back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go private.

Yes. Do what's best for your kid(s). But that often means private. I have had my kids in both. And post-Covid MCPS has been a nightmare.

We did some private summer school classes and lets just say they weren't impressive. One teacher was incompentent and we had to use the MCPS free covid tutoring to get through the class. Sometimes private is better, sometimes not. Privates have a much slower math track, which was not impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That teachers are in bed with the tutors (literally and not literally). Where is the teaching DURING class? How about going over quiz questions after every student has taken it so students understand the correct answers and receive explanation of why? Or helping students who stop by after class when the student has proactively asked teacher to clarify? Instead teacher: "are you trying to cut your next class" (no, the next period is the student's favorite class!). Teacher not knowing how to teach the material so spends more time trying to make bad (it's not funny) mom/dad jokes. Good for you that you did so well in that class when you took the class back in the day but this is 2023 and you don't know how to teach the damn '23 content. Or teachers who create more drama than teach. Students should be writing that they are in their school's theater program just because they attend athat class and put up with that teacher's drama.

Teachers are not in bed with tutors. Many public and private school kids have tutors. Nothing new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To families who have HS seniors and are leaving mcps this year: what is one piece of advice or wisdom about mcps or in general you want to leave parents of younger students?

Here's one:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1266671.page

That's one teacher and one kid in a system where tens of thousands of special needs kids are systemically mistreated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go private.

Yes. Do what's best for your kid(s). But that often means private. I have had my kids in both. And post-Covid MCPS has been a nightmare.

Private doesn't necessarily means better..it's just another option. You could try homeschooling.