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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Chevy Chase, was strongly against the purple line, and would vote for Governor Hogan based solely on his calling MoCo BOE on their bullshit.  This BOE's hand-wringing over how to create a school schedule is ridiculous.  The email is a ploy to raise ire, which has and will backfire on them.

I've lived here long enough to see their patterns of incompetence,  they canceled an excessive amount of school days one year at the mere appearance or forecast of a snowflake and when the state would not grant them a waiver that year, they straightened up the next and were judicious in their selection of snow days.  I can't tell you how many times my children have come home and when asked what they did in school replied "nothing, we have a Wednesday off and a half day so the teacher said she does not want to start something new because we'll forget it by Monday"  they would do busy work or read quietly in classes.

The reason this school system does well is that well-educated parents make up for the shortcomings of the school.  We both have advanced degrees, if my children don't understand something, we can explain it or can easily find it on the internet.  This is not true for immigrant families or ones without a formal education.

If you want to close the achievement gap, start having whole weeks of school and provide Math and English books and a curriculum that doesn't consist of error-filled worksheets.   I came from an immigrant family, smart people but they could not help with homework, I had books with specific examples that I could reference at home, those don't exist in our schools.  Even with a computer a non-english speaker is going to have a difficult time sorting through the 100's of hits for homework help.   At my child's elementary school teachers spend more time making worksheet copies than grading, on the very little work that comes home, there are no meaningful grades or comments.

If Governor Hogan is able to do something about the ridiculous half days I will volunteer to go door to door for him.  They do nothing on half days either, there's not enough time, but they have lunch so it counts as full educational day.  It's yet another complete waste of an opportunity to educate.

Again, the children of affluence have parents with the knowledge and resources to make up for the shortcomings of the school system, but that is not true for all.  Some children really need the full instructional day/week and are really hurt by the hodgepodge rhythmn of the school year and while it is nice to offer religious holidays, it's not necessary.

I didn't vote for Hogan, but I will next time, it's about time an adult was put in charge.

The BOE's manipulative play about making up snow days during spring break is akin to a child throwing a temper tantrum when they get a boundary placed on their behavior. [/quote]

*mic drop*

AMEN[/quote]

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