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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every teacher seems to have several dozen each quarter whereas our DC in private might have 10 total. A lot of it is busy work but it's difficult for teachers to grade and impossible for kids to keep track of. The Canvas system is so stupid that when the assignments are created it's unclear whether they are PP or AT until they show up as grades in the grades section which creates confusion for kids.

Are teachers incentivized to give more useless assignments? [/quote]

No it’s called learning and given public’s teach better than privates in HS what the hell are you talking about?

No your private isn’t superior. And no you aren’t either because you spend money on private sup par education

College admissions I rest my case [/quote]

LOL, MCPS sucks at preparing kids for college.  With the exception of a percentage of kids at W schools and a very very small percentage at others, by and large, kids are in for a shock when they go to college.  Case in point, my friend's daughter enrolled in Towson. She was a A/B student at her MCPS HS and struggled in her first year because she didn't know how to study for cumulative exams. MCPS hasn't given a final in years. Private schools have mid term and final exams for the most part. I don't know about OP's school, but most privates in the DMV are college prep level schools and do much better at preparing students for college. For one thing, they don't have the level of grade inflation that MCPS has and college admissions officers know this. That's why a larger percentage of students of the strong private schools get into top 20 colleges. At my daughter's private, 25% were admitted to top 20 schools.  At the best W schools, it was only 5%.[/quote]

Private can focus on that because they aren’t mandated to standardize test the students to death.  Once the state tests started ramping up, MCPS removed classroom tests because it’s all they really could. Not excusing this! But it’s part of the reasoning why.  Partially in response to parents and students upset at so much testing.   I wish we could get rid of all the standardized tests, but it’s coming from above MCPS. [/quote]

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