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[quote=Anonymous]We have two children at Somerset Elementary, and have been with the school for three years now.

While some individual teachers have been just fine, others have been disasters.

Since the school does not have a permanent principal right now (and the previous principal was not very good), there doesn't seem to be anyone around with the authority to solve problems when they arise, or hold the bad teachers accountable for their performance.  This is a big deal in this school system (I just discovered, from talking to the current temporary principal) because MCPS leaves all pedagogy decisions -- how to teach -- entirely up to the schools and individual teachers.  Therefore, if a particular teacher doesn't know what she's doing, or has any other problem, there doesn't appear to be anything in place for her to fall back on.

Our kindergartener comes home with worksheets where she's required to label shapes as "cylinder" or (I swear to God) "rectangular prism" -- yet the kids in that class have never yet been systematically taught to read, write, or even draw their numbers and letters correctly.  Our daughter at times comes home with other children's classwork, so we can see that multiple kids in the class need to be taught these fundamentals, which is just not happening.

We would love to get out of this school, but are stuck until we can sell our house to get out of the area.  While we are grateful for the few positive experiences our daughters have had here, we are overall very disappointed with the school.[/quote]

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