***FCPS: Ideas for Improvement Master Thread***

[Anonymous]

How would YOU improve FCPS?

Vouchers.
Breaking up FCPS into multiple school districts.
Recall school board.

You name it. Discuss here.

[Anonymous]

No teacher bashing and no parent bashing. Posts which violate this rule will be reported.

[Anonymous]

Abolish asynchronous Monday for ES
Abolish specials while virtual for ES
Teach writing and editing and spelling in ES

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Abolish asynchronous Monday for ES
Abolish specials while virtual for ES
Teach writing and editing and spelling in ES

For Mondays, are you saying no work at all or synchronous?

100% agree on writing/editing/spelling.

[Anonymous]

Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I know there are success stories and charter schools which helped kids... and then there is Khan Academy whose genius I imagine was fueled by vastly underpaid college graduates whose intelligence and creativity was ably exploited by Khan. I just realized what an appropriate name that is - Khan, the conquerer, brute barbarian appropriating others’ brilliance for his own gain.

But overall, charter schools are like privatized prisons. You go down that road and America starts to get pretty corrupt and disgusting.

(Also weren’t there those charter schools in Michigan that were supposed to substitute for the public schools, but when the charters realized they couldn’t make a profit, they pulled up stakes and left a whole community with no school? Charter schools do crap like that.)

[Anonymous]

I wish they’d bring back “sentence diagramming.” Do any middle schools still do that?

[Anonymous]

Textbooks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Textbooks

Yes, yes, and yes.

[Anonymous]

Geography & cursive & spelling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Textbooks

Yes, yes, and yes.

Yes, and also standardized materials that all teachers can use as a base. Lesson plans & slides.

It’s crazy to me that teachers need to reinvent the wheel for every subject, every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geography & cursive & spelling

Do they not do cursive at all anymore? When did they stop teaching that?

And did they really stop spelling units altogether? What about spelling bees? Those are kind of fun.

[Anonymous]

Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I think that ship has sailed.........

[Anonymous]

ESL intensive schools to get kids reading, writing and speaking on grade level
AAP schools
Magnet schools for stem/arts
Vocational schools for trades, mechanics, etc

Mostly school choice

[Anonymous]

Mine learned cursive in elementary and definitely had a lot of geography.

I agree that writing needs to be taught. It is lacking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I think that ship has sailed.........

This.