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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not in MCPS, but I'm a teacher who quit.  I was extremely successful and every single year my students made about a year and a half worth of growth.  I was definitely underpaid, results or not.  But, I was so demoralized when I left that it's really difficult to come up with a number that might have gotten me to stay.  The entire education system has to change.

And I truly believe that in the next 5-10 years, schools won't be able to remain open.  I think it is extremely realistic to imagine parents will be getting robo calls on Sunday nights to learn their school won't be able to open that week because there isn't staff to open safely.  I think it's realistic to think that high schools won't be able to offer ANY clubs, sports, AP classes, etc, and that academic classes will have 80-200 kids in them, lecture style. I suspect online learning will be the norm for people who can afford a sahp and internet and everyone else will be screwed.  I think buildings are going to close, most of the education programs in universities will close (the ones that haven't already).  I think students with special needs won't be getting any services.  The system is crumbling and is far worse than any parent I know realizes.

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This is actually a good thing.  Give families the money and the market will educate.  New Americans already do this with cram schools - Kumon, mathnasium.  In MCPS this is where real education happens anyways.  Let’s cut out the middleman.  Product of Buffalo public schools and taught kids/used cram schools during pandemic But realize places like MCPS need to close.  So much better than public school.  RIP.[/quote]

Public school in the US is kind of a disaster.  I'd like to see some school choice in Montgomery County, but our political leaders would fight that tooth and nail.

At the very least, let students opt of of classes if they can demonstrate proficiency.  If my kid can pass an Algebra test (because she's learned Algebra elsewhere), don't make her take it again with the crappy MCPS version.  If my kid speaks Spanish and can pass the AP Spanish test, let her opt out of the language requirement.

This would require a huge overhaul of public education and I don't see the political will until things get as bad as what the PP is describing and the entire system just 'crumbles'.  [/quote]

You have school choice.  It's called moving.  If you are in some areas for MS and HS you can lottery into other schools but none are any better than the other.[/quote]

And, your child can take another foreign language.  You need foriegn language in HS for college.[/quote]

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