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[quote=Anonymous][quote]They are in school for 6 hours a day and when they remove the motivation to recieve true letter grades, and graded homework, and teach well below a child's capability the educators are not doing their job.

The title of this thread was underachieving kids, scholastically my kids are overachievers and I have never pushed them. The one in the HGC is doing okay, but the others are losing all motivation to learn because the work is brain numbing, they say they spend alot of time stting with nothing to do.

I am having to do supplementation at home for the first time ever.

You can't push when they are not recieving a good basic foundational education in school.[/quote]

Agree 100%, well said. The problem isn't just the grades. Its the low expectations. I went to a private a school and even "A" or "B" papers came back with comments pointing out strengths and weaknesses. The expectation was that your next paper would address the weaknesses or it would not be an A or B. In MCPS, there is no feedback for students or instructional guidance on how to do your best. A C paper gets a "P" with no direction back to a student so the student goes on thinking this level of work is fine. Most of the other work in elementary school is worksheet driven busy work anyway with no way for a student to do anything more than the basic activities. The analogy to filling out a DMV form is appropriate. I guess you could turn over the DMV form and on the back start to design a car while waiting in line but this isn't very likely. Its a form. You fill it out and hand it to the clerk. This is what MCPS is now.

Parents who think kids will magically just improve and reach their potential on their own with no instruction or motivation are fooling themselves or just don't care whether their kids do well later on academically. [/quote]

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