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Then congrats -- you have a system you love.

[b]Some of us want to confront the reality that MCPS has serious problems.[/b] Since you love it, you don't have to participate. Sit back and enjoy the school system you have.

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Confront it, how? And once you've confronted it, then what?[/quote]

Exactly.  Many who supplemented and were invested in their kids education at home, were doing so because they had "confronted" the shitty curriculum, the smoke and mirror testing, the terrible assignments many years ago.  These were the parents who were the "difficult" parents who raised their voices in meetings, volunteered and auditioned the classrooms, looked at the material that was handed to their students, were aware of what the curriculum was, were looking at the textbooks, were supplementing for their students, were speaking up on listservs, were bringing opportunities to the school.

So, those of us who confronted it and did something about it are feeling great because our kids are ahead. You snoozed and expect someone else to advocate for you then you get what you get.

MCPS has provided an infrastructure that has many resources inbuilt in it. You have to educate yourself and then work with the scaffolding that has been provided by MCPS and build on that. No one is going to do it for you.  And if you want to organize and mobilize people IRL instead of this forum  then more power to you. However, you will probably just do nothing. [/quote]

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