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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS should realize that parents and teachers are tired of their marketing bs.  There is no amount of spin that will undo the disservice that was done to teachers and students this abysmal year.

Quit the spin.  Invest more money into the people who actually work with students - the teachers. More teachers will have the greatest impact. Stop the new programming because Social Emotional Learning programs will mean nothing when 40% of the math curriculum was dropped in FY21.  Focus on getting students caught up in core subjects before adding fluff.

MCPS has a surplus from this past year of $24 million dollars.  This was due to state and federal COVID grants.  The BOE should prioritize that the funds go to getting class size smaller vs. even more Central Office staff.  However, the BOE are morons who rubber stamp anything MCPS wants to do.[/quote]

Agree.  I don't want my kids getting social emotional learning from them.  Just give them an education and we will handle being parents.[/quote]
What does "an education" entail? [/quote]

With MCPS, we don't have high expectations so we supplement at home and with private school summer programs.
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Any decent parent does this. It was always true and necessary.[/quote]

We do this, but I think it stinks.  And it makes the Achievement Gap even worse.

I was a poor child of immigrant parents.  My parents made education a priority but never paid for a tutor or private programs.  Ever.

I got a fantastic education from my public school AND public college.  I learned how to write well enough and got a strong Science/Math education that led me to a good career.  I feel super fortunate but I think it’s sad that our public schools can’t offer this.

The writing education at my kids ES and MS has been pretty abysmal.  And Math?  Ugh.  
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It hasn't changed at all.  In MCPS and any school system you will always have a group of high achievers, kids in the middle/average and kid struggling.  You don't need to pay for tutors.  We never have.  K-5th we did workbooks with ours and in later years we did supplement with private summer school but only due to covid and not doing anything in person still.   I spent maybe $15-30 a year on workbooks.[/quote]

I’m the PP.  We did the same.  I never did tutoring in ES.  Just workbooks.  But wait until you get to higher level Math classes.  If you want your kid to actually understand the material, it will require a little more investment.  If you don’t care about Math, that’s fine and your kid can make it through.  But, especially this year, where they simply cut our part of the Math curriculum, we were basically required to pay if we wanted out kids to get the actual class material.

And yes, it absolutely HAS changed.  I never even did any workbooks as a kid.  And so never needed any addition classes outside of school.  Not for Algenra or Calculus or Physics or anything.  I just had some fantastic teachers that took the time to explain the material.

I got excellent feedback on each writing assignment so that I could improve my writing skills.  My kids’ writing assignments are checked for completion and given an A, with very little feedback.

We’re in a nonW cluster, so maybe the W schools have better feedback, etc?[/quote]

We are at school people openly bash here and would never send their kids.  We had a decent experience DL.  Far better than anything we had in person.  It depend ons the school and principal.

Wait for what.  Our child is in higher level math.  We are doing summer classes, but only due to covid and no camps this year.[b]  We don't reply on MCPS for math. [/b]  We have one parent who can do the higher level math so its not an issue in our home.

But, for most families, at least in ES, which is the biggest issue where you need that good foundation, workbooks are fine until the kids surpass what the parents can do on their own.

Our school did a big focus on writing this year and surprisingly the teachers actually graded the work and gave feedback.  But, they didn't do any literature, not even one book.

Not much has changed with MCPS since I went.  Its very easy to get lost as an average student in MCPS given how large the classes/school are and no individual attention, etc.  [/quote]

I agree that a parent cannot rely on MCPS to teach Math.

THAT is my point.  IMO, that should be unacceptable.

I got a super strong math education in my public school system back in the 1980s.  And it helped me succeed.

MCPS pretends to care about lower-income students, but it provides such a subpar education to all students (especially in Math and Science and Language Arts), that unless a kid is fortunate enough to have knowledgeable parents, that kid is SOL.

That is a travesty.  Montgomery County kids deserve better.  A solid curriculum and smaller class sizes would be a much welcomed start.[/quote]

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