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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS needs to focus on raising achievement across the board in rational ways. Curriculum 2.0 and the new grading system is the most anti-achievement educational approach ever conceived. Removing final exams is just one more attempt to hide the gap between different groups.

1. Stop teaching non-sense. Drop the idiotic MCPS homegrown 2.0 and use one of the solid curriculums that private and parochial schools acquire. 
2. Go back to a normal grading system. You won't need to spend millions on grading systems if you drop the need to add custom categories for metacognition. Bring back consequences for poor academic achievement and reward for good academic achievement.
3. Re-instate unit tests. Guess what - if you don't pass, you don't move on. You repeat or you're in summer school. 
4. Give homework. Normal homework like writing a book report, doing several pages of math problems, writing a paper. 
5. Differentiate. 30 kids ranging from can't count  to already know Algebra is not a workable solution. 
6. Provide incentives for parental involvement. You want your kid in compacted math or a higher reading group? No problem - here is what YOU need to teach them and make sure they know to get in and stay in. Stop making it a closely guarded mystery and anointment based on random teacher and poorly training specialists.
7. Get rid of disorganized, ditzy, and I retired in place five years ago teachers. Encourage the new teachers to innovate with technology. 
8. Set the principal's performance review (this is what drives what is actually done in every school) on the growth rate of students NOT on a % hitting the mediocre bar. Stop characterizing kids that achieve more than mediocrity as not needing anything. 
9. If 90% of the school only speaks Spanish - make it a Spanish immersion school and teach in Spanish.
10. Cut salaries of MCPS employees back to where they were before Starr bankrupted the system giving raises that he couldn't afford. Use the funds to take class sizes back to a rational size, add aides into classrooms, bring back para educators.  
11. Cut MCPS focus back to only educational mission only. Keep the social programs physically in the schools. This makes sense logistically but they should be run and budgeted out of Social Services not MCPS. 
12. Re-organize the central office. Consolidate the numerous departments and size them down. Use the dollars from multiple reduced six figure department heads to hire someone with skills not an old crony. 
13. Stop having education majors try to teach math. Ending the math exams does not solve the problem as to why MCPS students were failing math. Allow the math gifted students to accelerate and be taught by people who understand math. Allow the students that are math challenged to be taught by someone who understands math.
14. Stop thinking that the ultimate goal of MCPS is to feed more students into Montgomery Community College. It sucks too. Aim higher. 
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