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[quote=Anonymous]Declining. I regret moving here for the schools and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

The grading system is bizarre and de-motivates kids. Math is abysmal. The writing assignments can be interesting but the kids don't get feedback on how to improve their writing. The science component is random at best. The whole curriculum is a hodge-podge mess. The teachers that we have encountered are all nice and energetic. They could do so much better if they were not struggling with the poor curriculum and bad grading system.

I've spoken with parents who have older kids about why MCPS was considered good in the past. Based on our poor experience, I don't understand how it could have ever been good. Some parents had an interesting comment that the teaching wasn't better or worse before but the system embraced academic achievement and didn't get in a kid's way if they were motivated to learn. 2.0 is a complete reversal where academic achievement his avoided at all costs and kids are supposed to level off to let all the underperforming kids look equal to them.

There was more homework in the past so parents who were willing to be engage could encourage their kid to improve their writing and teachers backed this up. Now, everything is a P even if its poorly done. The work is done in class only so parents can't encourage the child to do better even if its only a P no matter what and the teachers in class don't encourage the kid to do any better than the lowest bar.  The same is true for math. MCPS used to attract STEM parents with kids that ,surprise, are good at math. These kids have no where to go since acceleration is no longer allowed. In the past, there was peer pressure to be in the higher math groups so even kids who weren't naturally great at math would work harder to get into the class. I guess MCPS decided that it didn't want to make anyone who couldn't get into the higher math class feel bad so they dumbed down math for everyone. This way everyone gets a P. [/quote]

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