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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] ... here are a good number for unhappy MCPS parents.  MCPS is not great.

There are no aides in the classrooms and class sizes keep getting bigger. MCPS has budget problems.

The superintendent has a very bad relationship with parents. He's arrogant, rude, not effective, and has a hard time hiding is disdain for any parental involvement.

Curriculum 2.0 sucks. The new report card is terrible. You will have no idea how your child is doing. Everyone gets a P and ES grades are random. When my child got a few ES grades, I asked why and the explanation was very arbitrary. Even if your child gets ES grades, you still have no idea how they are actually doing. They don't give unit assessments, the assessments are based on teacher observation so teacher's can't give you any examples of how they are doing. You just end up seeing piles of worksheets come home. Math is too easy and too repetitive. Same thing over and over. What's worse is that they will re-introduce and then repeat the same thing over and over again the next year. Curriculum 2.0 ended acceleration so if your kids picked it up in an earlier grade they have to do it again. Enrichment is some bullshit extra worksheets that aren't any more challenging than the regular work.

MCPS used to be much better. Parents with older kids and younger kids are upset that their older kid received a better education.

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MCPS has seen a dramatic change in enrollment.  While it was a majority white system in the '80s, Hispanics make up the majority today with blacks falling slightly behind.  So, with the decline in well prepared students the school system has fallen in educational performance (MSAs, HSAs, etc).  It is not a great system, IMO, but an okay system.  Of course the breathless PR people and the unions that depend on the system being perceived as good wont agree with me.

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