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[quote=Anonymous]Cumulative 39 years dealing with MCPS, and 12 with Whitman, including one child with an IEP. The school is living off a reputation that maybe it deserved in the past, but is no longer warranted. Lack of student accountability, rampant grade inflation, ridiculous sense of entitlement are just a few of the problems. Another one is the lack of availability of on grade level courses. Either calling courses “honors” so they look better on a transcript or actually providing more rigorous courses is a joke if you force all kids to take them when some are unable or simply not interested in doing the work. The school is setup to support an ecosystem of haves and have mores, and if you and your child do not fit into a neat box of upper middle to upper class families with kids that are on a competitive college track and taking 10 AP courses you will be left behind in a heart beat unless you do the work and make them provide the services they are legally required to. Good luck - you deserve what you are entitled to.

Ps - maybe the flooding incident that closed the school for 1/2 a day, flooded 1/3 of the school and caused who knows how much money in damage was the result of a girl ripping a sink off the wall, but do you think the administration will hold anyone accountable? It may affect her chance to get into Harvard!

Pps - can’t wait for graduation when they ask all graduates with a certain gpa or higher (I think 3.8 but I don’t recall the exact number) to stand at a certain point in the ceremony. The overwhelming majority of kids stand, and based on the grade inflation that I have personally seen it is BS. We will tell our kid to stand regardless of what their gpa is just because it’s a joke. [/quote]

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