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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.[/quote]

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.[/quote]

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

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Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.[/quote]

Where was MCPS’s response to the article? [/quote]

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....[/quote]

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic. [/quote]

There are a lot of kids who do not thrive in a high-stakes testing environment. Retaining knowledge in certain subjects is important, but there is more than one educational technique to facilitate that. The HS kids are already extremely stressed out, why focus on finals? Meet the children where they are, it is not all about the next level. [/quote]

Meetings kids where they are is why we’re in this situation in the first place.

MCPS’s whole philosophy has been to teach down to where kids are, rather than pushing them at all.

The proficiency rates show that approach has failed.

Not to mention, every post-secondary educational setting will involve cumulative tests. Not prepping kids for that situation is just setting them up for failure.[/quote]

SERIOUSLY! Thank you![b] The "meet children where they are" mafia has had their time in the sun. ENOUGH![/b][/quote]

AGREE!  It’s that soft bigotry of low expectations.

We’re not helping our kids by allowing them to skate by with such low expectations.  [/quote]

Obviously we're not going to convince each other, but "pushing" kids by testing the heck out of them is not the answer. The system needs to motivate the kids to learn. A lot of students in MCPS are facing a lot of challenges outside of school.  It is not always soft bigotry of low expectations; it is how do we not push kids to the brink, whatever that brink is, which varies based on the kid's situation - anxiety, quitting school, depression or other mental health, vaping, drugs ... [/quote]

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