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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They won't.  McKnight and the BOE have zero incentive to recant on their policy choices, and no one can remove them or change their minds.[/quote]
I unfortunately mostly agree with this. The main issue right now are that many of the problems OP identified are caused by specific policy choices and PP is right that the incentive structure is not in place to (1) recognize/admit these are problems in the first place and (2) implement reforms/changes that address them.

The good things about MCPS that make it a good school system are due to hard work, dedication and decisions of people decades ago. The school system has just been riding that momentum since while also making it worse when they do make decisions.

[b]Quite honestly, I think s big part of the problem with MCPS is that while salaries of administrators are generous, the quality of people it attracts and promotes seems to be very poor.[/b]

You can still get a quality education in MCPS, but the schools where this is possible is getting narrower and the types of kids that it serves well is getting smaller. There is no way around the fact that it’s a school system in decline and the issues are not changing demographics, as many argue. It’s much deeper than that.

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After working through MCPS morass for over 16 years, I can attest that this entire post is very accurate. Especially on the administrators part.

Perhaps I have been lucky, but most of the teachers at MCPS have been good to excellent. There have been a few duds along the way, but their shortcomings were possible to navigate.

The administrators, on the other hand, have a been a mixed bag of fantastic to pathetically incompetent. It seems to me that the higher up you go on the MCPS food chain, that the individuals are far more concerned about their positions and salaries than they are for the students.

It's the teachers who do the heavy lifting, but many of them are starting to walk away. I really feel sorry for people who are just putting their kids into the system now. The signs and projections do not bode well for the near future. I wish you the best of luck and urge you to fight like hell to endure that your children get the best education possible. [/quote]

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