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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And when I say the NWDC ES PTAs are awesome it's compared to our also highly active former Bethesda ES. However in DC the PTA funds and usages are not throttled down by MCPS Central Office. If we don't like the class size, we hire an aide. This is in addition to the better curriculum and more dedicated subjects than MCPS had (mainly reading, math), full time music (2x/week), art (2x/week) and PE (3x a week) classes. [/quote]

Sure, but you realize that allowing PTAs to hire aides not only perpetuates inequality, but also isn’t a sustainable source of funding for that aide. Let’s say your kid’s class could use an aide, so you pay for one. What happens when your kid graduates from the school? Do you keep paying for the aide, or does the aide lose his/her job because you don’t want to pay the salary anymore and the current PTA parents don’t see the need for one?

I totally agree MCPS has problems, but the solution isn’t having PTAs pay for things like that. The public school system needs to be the one to provide those things.

Also, if you look at the national rankings, DCPS schools still lag far behind MCPS, with the exception of 2-3 charter schools. Some DCUM posters love to act like DCPS is this wonderful place, but it’s just not. [/quote]

Stop with the meaningless averages, standardized test rankings, and pretend teacher aides in high school BS. MCPS has big problems and not just for ESOL and FARM kids. It is failing its middle and top kids daily with a crap curriculum that mainly teaches math and english badly and skips out on teaching science, social studies, any arts, and gym. A huge bifurcated COUNTY-RUN school district like MCPS does not provide well. At all. You will be supplementing and supplementing for holes and missing subjects until high school. Then the robotic federal AP curriculum kicks in.

Go tour 3 Bethesda ESs and 3 NW DC ES (Janney, LaFayette, Mann) and report back on class size, hourly/weekly curriculum, extracurriculars, community involvement. If you have a choice, and are informed firsthand, you would not chose MCPS.

Central office MCPS policies, procedures, curriculum have annihilated the MoCo reputation. Just peel back the onion one layer. [/quote]

Well for starters the Janney ES website looks awesome, had tons of info, and the class schedule seems to cover double the subject matter than MCPS ES classes. https://www.janneyschool.org/

Look, an 8:30am start time for all - now your kids don't have to climb all over the house from 6:30am to 9:25am when school finally starts!
And look, a Responsive Classroom teaching methodology for PK-2 - can't do that with only one teacher and 27 kiddos.
Designated Science and Math teachers in ES! They might actually know math themselves then!
Inexpensive french, spanish and mandarin available year-round before or after school at multiple levels: https://www.janneyschool.org/janneyplus/jelp/

Looks more transparent than the meaningless jumbo MCPS slaps up on its generic websites.

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I love people who come here to be braggadocious about nothing. Please go to the DC public school forum. Really, you have nothing to prove here. People are on this forum because of MCPS, NOT DCPS. Clearly you've made your choice so just move along.[/quote]

DP here

I don’t see it as bragging at all.

I see it more as showing parents that we should expect better from MCPS.  And that it is CAN be done better.  It’s providing an example of how things could be different in MCPS.  I find it helpful.[/quote]

I want an explanation from the DCPS boosters as to why, despite all of DCPS’s apparent glory, it’s still ranked 5239 in the country, while MCPS is 661. In addition, why is a DCUM fav like Janney ranked 6973, while my kid’s MCPS school is 2506, despite having a much higher FARMS rate? You can say rankings have methodological problems, but those are huge differences.[/quote]

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