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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of these far right-agitators that post here have a vested interest in sewing this decline of civilization narrative. It's the same old MAGA rhetoric... They intentionally ignore the changes that lead to lower test averages. If you were to look test scores for a credible test (not MCAP) 20 years ago and now by demographic group you'd see things are the same or beter.[/quote]

I am not MAGA. I’m an MCPS graduate and current parent and MoCo native. My complaints are real and valid.

Dismiss them at your own peril. I’m not going away.[/quote]

I'm new to this thread and haven't read every post. [b]Are you saying that your children's education in MCPS is worse than when you were an MCPS student?[/b][/quote]

Easily.

School and safety compared to when I was in MCPS is far worse. We didn’t have guns, knives and drugs like what is currently flowing through MCPS today. My DS’s school had over 5 overdoses at school last school year. [b]Several students have been busted robbing other students with ghost guns and fentanyl pills apprehended afterward. That was unheard of when I was an MCPS student.[/b]

In terms of standards, they are in the toilet. The English papers that get an A today would’ve gotten a C+/B- at best. The kids don’t know how to format letters and emails, grammar and spelling knowledge is nonexistent.

When I was in MCPS, kids were scared to miss too many classes for fear of getting a Loss of Credit. Today, kids skip with impunity because they won’t get a loss of credit, detention or suspension as a consequence.

So yes, MCPS today is easily way worse than it was when I was there in the 90s.[/quote]

That's because there weren't ghost guns or fentanyl in the 1990s. Not in MCPS or anywhere else.

When I was in school in the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s, we didn't have active-shooter drills. Should I complain that MCPS is in decline!!!!!!!!!111111111111 because they didn't used to have active-shooter drills and now they do?[/quote]

There were drugs and gun violence going on back then. It just wasn’t showing up in MCPS schools.

I was in an MCPS high school when Columbine  happened and we were spooked by any kid who showed up in a trench coat. But guess what? Nothing like Columbine ever actually happened in an MCPS school.

Today, on the other hand, we had a shooting at Magruder HS and multiple kids in multiple MCPs high schools have been caught with guns in the last three years. So those national headline generating, cautionary tales have now become realities in MCPS, which did not used to be the case.[/quote]
There were kids caught with guns, there was kid run over by car fleeing drug-deal gone wrong in MCPS in the 90's, just a few examples. Difference now, there are lot more cameras, social media and harder for parents with means to have big shot lawyers sweeping things under the rugs.[/quote]

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