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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That was a pretty enlightening Reddit thread. If a student is not self-motivated and high-performing, they are completely failed by MCPS schools today. It's a race to the bottom for average kids. And it's entirely caused by central office bureaucrats. Monica McKnight cannot leave soon enough.[/quote]So in summary, to increase graduation rates, MCPS stopped requiring kids actually go to class and stopped teachers from giving zeros for not doing any assignments. That caused a drop in attendance rates, so they redefined absences as just very tardy. The result is that kids without parental oversight are hanging out in the hallways and graduating with no skills, knowledge, or self-discipline. However, the graduation and attendance rates are meeting metrics.

Lol, you all need to name schools for me to believe this. And even more, you need to name schools because all that was done in the name of equity, but if true, it's actually hurting the kids who need equity.[/quote]

It's all true for Magruder.  I am not sure what to even say to students anymore about accountability.  We are asked to "always assume the best" in our students, but we can't hold them accountable in any way.  In my experience asking a kid to go back to class may result in an "f u" without any consequences, so why bother even telling them to get to class.  As long as the kid in class 5 minutes we have to mark it as late instead of absent.  Staff would like something basic like a list of students who failed the previous year's classes, but we are not given anything. So, interventions are difficult to plan for.

Somehow we had a 97% graduation rate last year.  Now, about half of this year's seniors are behind in credits at the start of the year.  None of the numbers make sense to staff.  The kids just roll into Edmentum for easy credit recovery.

The whole 10 rule was forced on us by the state after MCPS got caught with an extra 800+ kids on the rolls who ever showed up at all yet MCPS still got state funding for.

I am going to start locking assignments after two weeks from now on.[/quote]

Oh yeah, on Friday a kid "accidentally" set off the fire sprinkler system by kicking a soccer ball at the ceiling during lunch time flooding three floors.  Almost half the day wasted.[/quote]

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