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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:

+ 100 MCPS is only gung ho on this because they think its a way to avoid getting to the point of having lots of failing, 80% FARMS schools. For MCPS, its about being able to say look all of our schools are 6s. Trust me, they know from their own data that reducing the FARMS number in schools does nothing to increase the performance of lower income kids. The studies that show any of those changes were across multiple schools systems with a correlating gap in resources not one system that is able to increased resources to schools with more FARMS kids. Even the changes across disparate school systems evaporate once you cross the 20% level. This isn't about lowering the achievement gap. It is about optics of overall school performance.

Its a shame because this will initiative will lower the services available for low income kids and drive higher income kids out of the system. MCPS will simply end up accelerating what they were hoping to avoid.

Don't forget that the purpose of 2.0 was to slow down the pace of the curriculum to reduce the achievement gap. Despite all the data and teacher input that the new curriculum was making the achievement gap worse not better, MCPS didn't listen. If there hadn't been the John Hopkins audit we would still have 2.0.

How about we rephrase that?

If MCPS hadn't chosen to pay people at Johns Hopkins for an evaluation of Curriculum 2.0, and then heeded the findings of the people they paid, we would still have Curriculum 2.0.

There are plenty of posts on DCUM from posters who imply (or explicitly state) that MCPS is actively seeking to sabotage their children's education. If you really believe that, you have a moral imperative to withdraw your children from MCPS.[/quote]

Be honest, MCPS did not want the audit. The audit was required because it was put into the BOE procedures and policies years ago. The Board didn't want to bother to repeal this requirement and probably didn't want to bring attention to why MCPS did not want it to happen.

MCPS central office isn't seeking to sabotage education but this is what happens when an organization has no accountability, hires poorly qualified to be in the central office, ignores all input from teachers, parents and students and solely acts in what it believes will help MCPS central office staff. The central office is filled with people who failed in the classrooms, buddies of each other, people who could never make 140K with their qualifications anywhere else so they cling to their little positions like dear life, and people who thrive in a toxic culture. [/quote]

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