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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Ive said this here before but Ill say it again. I work in the county and the people at the tippy top are not secretive about their feelings about the W schools. The goal is to narrow the achievement gap, and focusing on enrichment or class size or resources or magnet access in the W schools is inconsistent with that goal. They view it as a moral imperative to level the playing field, and whether or not you agree, there are limited resources. So yes, the W schools are going to remain an afterthought and they're going to let parents do the enriching. Honestly, how could anyone look at the MCPS website and not see this mandate so clearly? It's been this way for YEARS. And by the way, they're also not sending the superstar principals the W schools way either. The good ones in the Ws tend to move up quickly. There are one or two exceptions, but at the high school level only. That's why you see a lot of teacher turnover in the W schools too--lack of good leadership[/quote]

I agree with the above statement except a teacher or principal that is loved by the central office and seen as a shining star usually isn't the best. The ones that are loved by the central office tend to be the propaganda kiss ups. The W schools tend to hold onto some of the best teachers who hate 2.0 and really work to get around it. The parents are very active in the W schools so the really horrible teachers tend to get transferred east pretty quickly. There's a practical reality too that many good teachers live up in Frederick so moving east is a nightmare commute for them. They have no intention of moving to the east and sending their kids to the lower ranked schools.

I think its fine that staff in MCPS see improving low performing schools as a moral imperative. This is a good goal. The problem is their complete incompetence in actually achieving that goal. These staff members want to play with numbers to create some illusion of progress that isn't there. Screwing around with the high performing schools isn't helping the lower performing schools at all. Rolling out a bad curriculum isn't helping the lower performing kids. Attracting more whites to the eastern side of the county isn't helping the minority students either. They just get displaced again.

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