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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are in MCPS. In the Whitman cluster. One in middle and one in elementary. I read this board and it does not reflect my experience at all. "MCPS" may be a mess but my local schools have been great. I think it's big county and experiences vary but I have been pleased. I've looked at privates and have decided so far to stick with the Whitman cluster. Like many PPs, I think this board skews to disgruntled/haters. Talk to people in the places you are thinking of buying to get a real sense of the experience at specific MCPS schools, not the county in general.[/quote]

The thing is... you are a parent.  You are not in the schools and frankly, don't have a way to measure the type of work that kids (including yours) are doing, and how that compares to previous years.  I am an AP teacher, and I can absolutely attest that the standards are being lowered across the board.  Just because your child receives As, and passes AP exams (for example, the AP Lit exam has been so watered down that the pass rate is now above 70%) does not mean that the education they are receiving compares well to previous generations.  Yes, I will say it again, this is a mediocre system.[/quote]
LOL.
If the standards are lowered across the board, the AP passing rate wouldn't be above 70%, which is amongst the highest in the nation. Nationally, it is about 52% passing rate.
You have no idea of what you're talking about, troll. You're not fooling anyone except the oblivious ones, right-winger.[/quote]

I don't think you understand what I'm saying.  The AP Lit pass rate nationally is now above 70%.  The standards for passing have been lowered, and not just for that class.  AP Lang teachers now teach kids to skip introductions and conclusions and to memorize "sentence frames" instead of writing their own sentences.  The names of rhetorical devices are no longer needed, even to do "rhetorical analysis," just tell us what the author is "trying to do."  Reading passages do not come from any work earlier than the 19th century because kids cannot comprehend them.  AP sciences almost all allow calculators now because kids can't calculate Percent Change.  All multiple choice questions on AP history and government tests now come with "stimulus passages" because kids need prompts to come up with the answers.  AP GoPo now tells the kids which Supreme Court cases they will need to know for the exam, instead of the universe of important cases like ten years ago.  Etc., Etc.  No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to out-do me with your cursory knowledge of APs.  [/quote]

Is it that it’s easier to pass these exams of the strategies and gimmicks for passing them have gotten better?  Some would argue the same for the SAT/ACT but then we would also have to acknowledge the significant change in prepping for these examinations.  Same with AP.

And is this an MCPS change or problem or a national one?

The problem that people have with the MCPS is declining narrative or the sky is failing here narrative, is it’s rarely painted in context of all the changes experience in education/society in the last 50years nor does it judge MCPS against the many other school districts that exist in the nation.[/quote]

Pass rates are up because schools are getting better at teaching these concepts than in the past.It's not that complicated.[/quote]

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