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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS has basically abandoned the high performers, is screwing the middle performers, and is trying hard to help the lower performers but is being so ineffective they are harming them the most in the end.

Any school system that has wealthy and poor areas will redistribute resources from the rich area to the poor area. I'm fine with that personally. What bothers me is that MCPS uses the high performing areas to ride on their scores and collect their money but then screws them constantly in the name of social justice. Social justice should mean raising the bar for all.  It doesn't mean abandon and screw one group for no reason.

In other school districts, its common for lower performing schools in poor areas to have more staffing but those systems also allow parents in the high SES areas to donate money and pay to provide additional teachers/staff/ The high SES areas still come out with fewer teachers/staff than the low areas but it is closer to being even. The tax funds are still allocated more to the lower performing schools. MCPS policy is to not allow parents to raise funds for staff and teachers. There are many in MCPS that want to not only divert all facilities funding to lower performing school but to also disallow parents from raising funds to improve facilities in high SES areas. I don't know if its well meaning idiocy or spite but it makes no sense from a public policy or business standpoint.

The new curriculum is focused on making the lower performing students perform better on future PARC tests. For all the hype about MCPS wanting to get out of testing, it is the ultimate teach to the test as that is only what 2.0 tries to do. MCPS decided, in its great wisdom, to develop this curriculum on its own and did a very bad job. The lower performing students will still bomb not because they are poor or unable but because the curriculum sucks. The high performers will survive and still do fine despite getting a crappy education from MCPS. The middle gets lost and learns that underachievement is the goal. [/quote]

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