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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Pyle there is only Honors English and special ed English. They claimed they had the higher history class, but they didn’t. Transcripts said one thing, class was mixed. The principal didn’t care, all
In the name of equity.[/quote]

Not disputing but noting that is one school of 213.  And of course there are others.  The challenge is that folks generalize the entire district as being bad which is not correct, and it does real damage.[/quote]

Conversely, folks generalize the district as being "good," when that doesn't match the lived experience for many in the district. Maybe we should all agree that MCPS is mixed at best. With some schools being good and some being bad.[/quote]

[b]Not really accurate either[/b]. The truth is people get out of it what they put into it. Plenty of MCPS kids get into top schools every year. [/quote]

[b]On what basis are you claiming this[/b]? People's lived experiences are real. Not made up. But you're saying they're illegitimate. Why?[/quote]

NP. On the basis that you will find kids in EVERY school who are having a good experience and kids who are not. The reasons why a kid may have a good experience over another is varied. At my kid's Germantown high school, lots of kids are doing well but a good portion are not simply because these kids don't care and don't have parents with high expectations of them. Doesn't mean the school is bad. The teachers are great and helpful; and the school provides plenty of opportunities for students. I would say even more so than neighboring schools.  Kids who take advantage of those opportunities do well and do end up at good colleges/universities but those who don't care, who don't show up for school, don't. There's only so much that MCPS can do. Do you expect them to knock at a student's door and drag them out of bed to go to school? [/quote]

You are conflating so many things here I don't even know where to begin but let's address two things:

1. A school where a good portion of kids fail or skip without consequence is probably not a good school. Schools have an obligation to pursue kids who are chronically absent. Now the punitive way is to use the might of the law against them by charging parents and kids who are truant. MCPS has decided to not be aggressive or punitive in this manner so they don't. But let's be clear, that's an active choice on the part of the county and school district. Instead, MCPS has funded Pupil Personnel Workers (PPW) and Parent Community Coordinators (PCC) whose jobs it is to make sure kids show up to school and do well. So yes, it actually is MCPS's fault if they don't, because they have decided to fund positions to make sure they do.

2. You dismissed people's claims that MCPS schools are mixed, with some being good and some being bad, by making an unsubstantiated claim that all of the teachers in your kids' high school are "great." So you're throwing out your opinion to trump someone else's. Why is yours more credible than the one that you assert to be false?[/quote]
You're clearly a troll.
You know you can always move,  right?[/quote]

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