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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does MCPS have a plan for goals this year, in 5 years, in 10 years?  What are it's top priorities and how well is it achieving them?

With so much ladder climbing, people switching this job for that, the focus on how to be great educators and how to be great schools is lost.  A great organization would take feedback from the most important stakeholders - the students and the teachers.  They are the core and the front lines of education.  They know what bright idea from central office didn't pan out in reality (2.0 anyone?).  Trust that the people you hire have the skillset you need to do the job or get rid of them.

Time in and time out, we hear how bullies are running the system.  As a parent, I have seen administrators that run their schools with a disrespectful, close-minded bully mentality both as principals and central office positions.  I often sat in the room thinking to myself, "Wow, these are the people who run our school system?"  I feel sorry for the people who have to work with them day after day and the teachers who don't get credit for the wonderful work they are trying to do.

The best teacher my daughter ever had, pulled me aside after school one day and urged me to take my daughter to get privately tested for disabilities.  She thought something was wrong but had to say what the principal told her to say at the IEP screening meeting and on the teacher report forms.  The principal did not want my child to receive special education services.  Central office who eventually came to the contentious meetings also ignored the elephant in the room that my daughter wasn't reading on grade level at 4th grade.  The teacher pleaded me to not divulge her identity or she would loose her job for saying anything.  Her honesty saved my daughter and private testing did diagnose that my daughter did have a disability.  With interventions and special education services, she learned to read - something that seemed impossible till she received the proper supports.  She was an honors and AP student in high school, received honors and awards in college, and her life's work now is researching to find new biological markers to identify learning disabilities in children under 2 years of age.  [/quote]

Brave teacher. My teacher friends are now doing this more and more often. For different realms.[/quote]

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