Reply to Parents of current 7th graders - what do you think about the 6 regional magnets

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Parents of current 7th graders - what do you think about the 6 regional magnets"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going to be rough for all students in the first year of rollout, actually probably the first several years. It's being rushed and what they have produced shows that they really don't know what they are doing. Rather than phasing it, they are going to roll everything out at once. I feel very bad for current 7th graders who will be the first guinea pigs.[/quote]

+1 I had hoped that my 1st grader would be okay but now I am wondering if they can get anything decent together by the time she starts HS. My guess is no. Hopefully they won't screw up our home school too much.[/quote]

Just to put it in perspective, I have a 9th grader and everything you have now is completely different than what we had in 1st grade. You have different ELA curriculum, different math curriculum, you will have different math pathways, access to magnets is different, district communication is way different. You also have some different assessments. We did not even have parentvue. We basically got a class email from the teacher once a month and a pile of papers/projects sent home twice a year. All this to say you can’t predict what anything will look like that far out.[/quote]

Look at the implementation of the TWI program. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/detail.aspx?id=1600 lots of issues several years out. My concern is the sheer amount of stuff they want to implement. It's too much. Also, the number of changes you describe are not a good thing IME. It just seems like MCPS is constantly chasing the shiny new thing and schools are constantly scrambling to implement them without adequate resources. I was so confused when DC was in kindergarten about various issues and now I realize it is because they just implemented CKLA and it takes a lot of time to figure things out. How long until they decide this one doesn't work?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics