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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am no fan of Dr. McKnight, but you are assuming that that someone better than her applied for the job and fit the criteria the board was looking for.

This attitude of "burn it all down and start fresh" feels appealing but is too disruptive.   It is often pushed by people that don't even have kids in public school and might have agendas outside of public education.[/quote]

If no one better applied for the job then the Board should have kept looking. The Board members want the notoriety of being on the Board but they don’t invest their time into making MCPS a better school system. Standards at our school are so low now that my child still has to the end of a marking period to turn in assignments. What would have been a C paper years ago is now a low A. No final exams. It’s let’s pass every child through without actually holding them accountable for real life skills and learning the curriculum.[/quote]

I keep hearing this but find it hard to reconcile with the schools my kids attend. I think this is a popular myth that some buy into, but meanwhile, my kid has over  12 APs and received 5s on 8 of them.  People today just don't like tot ake any personal responsibility. [/quote]

Great your child attends a school that offers opportunities but many PPs are pointing out that some clusters discourage accelerating kids because of the lack of opportunities to advance at the same pace in high school.

Also when the Board has a policy that promotes students turning in work late and teachers support the practice then that is the low expectations students will follow. Parentvue lags weeks behind and not all teachers indicate an assignment is late so it’s near impossible for parents to know when assignments are late in real time.

As far as grading standards, I am an involved parent and have been for years. That’s how I know the curriculum and standards have been lowered.[/quote]

Yes, it's a high FARMS rate DCC school but offers the same APs that all MCPS schools have. [/quote]

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