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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Smith must be aware by now that the Wooton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc. cluster families supplement and home-teach their children a ton, weekly. To make up for MCPS deficiencies. 
Magnet programs no need - those teachers, pacing, curriculum, clubs/contests, and materials are comparable with college prep schools. K-5 far from it, 6-8 far from it, 9-12 not close either.

Week one of 1st grade, our teacher suggested daily math and daily reading homework of the kid/parent's choosing. WHAT IS THIS? 
A MCPS ES teacher telling parents to teach their kids themselves daily and giving zero details. So what did all the SAHMs and SAHDs and flex-job parents do? They went out and bought math workbooks, and phonics games, and top children's books. ANd taught their children what MCPS is supposed to be doing. And what did all the dual income parents do? They got tutors to come in from 5-6pm or signed up for Kumon or ran 6 kid classes in their house from 8am-9am.

DO YOUR JOB MCPS. We're sick of doing it for you.[/quote]

All of this is true, but please don't fall into the DCUM trap of believing that only W school families are supplementing. It is dangerously close to the conventional wisdom that only upper middle class families care about education.

I'm a DCC parent that has sent two kids to magnets where they've had high performing classmates that are the children of asylum seekers, who are first-generation American, who receive free meals, etc.

Those parents are ALSO supplementing. You may not see them at A+ Academy or whatever, but they are dragging out old textbooks, signing up for Saturday School at George B. Thomas, and getting help from neighbors who were doctors or scientists "back home" but who are driving Uber here.

It's important to point all of this out for racial and economic justice reasons, to not let lazy stereotypes about the east county go unchallenged, but also because MCPS should know that UMC strivers are not the only ones forced to scrape and supplement.

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