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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education everywhere, nationwide, is a disaster.  Teachers are leaving in droves, new teachers usually burn out in less than 5 years.  There aren't enough new teachers to replace them, because, who in there right mind would become a teacher?

Special Ed is in worse shape than Gen Ed, because it's a much harder job than the already hard job of a gen ed teacher.  Not only is the job physically harder, there's a lot more paperwork and meetings (A LOT more).

ES is usually fine - warm fuzzy, and you have small issues that a counselor can usually resolve.  Sometimes bigger problems emerge, if you have a good administration, it'll get worked out

MS is awful everywhere.  Hormones raging, lousy curriculum, kids are mean (especially girls)

HS - depends on the school (administration and teachers), your kid, and, more importantly their peers. Your kid could rise to the top, become involved with drugs and drop out of life, or float along fine, oblivious to all the nonsense around them.  The new changes proposed, if passed, could mix things up a bit for 27-28 and 28-29, but then things will settle, people will move, and the new programs will thrive or die

The reality is that MCPS has gone downhill in the 25 years we've lived here (since Jerry Weast left, and I know some hated him, but test scores were better and he didn't put up with nonsense). And/but, the demographics, and I'm referring to income levels, not race, have changed in the county since he left, and incomes for the vast majority, have not gone up

In the schools, there are no consequences for kids these days, and they know it at all ages.  You can sell drugs in HS and have the police come in and arrest you, and be back the next day, selling more drugs.  A MS kid can tell his teacher to Eff Off, they get sent to the office and are back in the classroom the next day.  In ES, they are learning they can get away with whatever they want.

Between the covid kids and SM/internet, kids have no attention span, can't read a book (too long), can't do basic math, and cannot pay attention to a teacher for a 45 minute lesson plan to learn anything (too long for them to pay attention, teachers don't blast music or change colors or switch images).

Our future does not look good[/quote]

I'm in the same boat, looking at kindergarten with worry as a potential MCPS parent. I'm especially concerned about screens and the way it is used at MCPS. [/quote]

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