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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This poster is 100 percent on-target.  I'm the mcps educator who is supplementing with my daughter an hour a day this summer.  I have supplemented with her since kindergarten.  My difficulties are compounded because my daughter has some attention and mild learning differences in addition to the substandard education she is receiving.  She is too high functioning to receive services (not that they would be good or sufficient).  I can't even imagine how deficient her skills would be without my constant intervention.

quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is the parents in this county. That’s it. If you’re offended by this, you’re probably part of the problem. [/quote]

Well, some of the parents may not prioritize education and/or enforce behavior standards.  That’s definitely A problem, and probably the one you had in mind.

But  there’s another problem where well-educated parents see gaps in their children’s education and make up the shortfall by hiring a private tutor/tutoring center, or “afterschooling”.  This means that while the education provided in the schools tends to be awful, they are still able to boast about having “one of the best school systems in the country”.  I grew up in school systems that made no such claims.  They may not have had as many special programs, but the basic curriculum was stronger, and a booming tutoring industry wasn’t required to get an education.  So to the extent that parents are able to identify and fulfill the need of educating their kids outside of school, it masks the lack of education in our public education.  Ultimately this may be the bigger problem, because as long as the problem remains hidden, it’s unlikely to be addressed.

I guess I’m part of the problem because I taught my kids how to read, that they didn’t need a calculator in elementary, how to hold their pencil, form print letters, write in cursive, use a dictionary, understand negative numbers, understand long division, understand that a sentence needs both a subject and a verb, understand when they FINALLY got a textbook that it actually had explanations and other useful features, etc.  However, I also joined a curriculum committee, attended PTA meetings, attended school board candidate forums (where I had to ask the individual candidates about curriculum because the moderators never asked the questions I duly submitted on index cards), attended MCPS community forums (which were specifically designed to discourage actual discussion), not to mention posting on DCUM.  The concerns I raise are usually dismissed by yet another claim that “Montgomery County has one of the best school systems in the nation” citing as evidence the achievements of my kids and their friends.  [/quote][/quote]

“Finally got a textbook” showing that you’re super out of touch. Textbooks are a relic of the past and they aren’t coming back. Might want to brush up on evolution.[/quote]

NP — sure, let’s just teach kids with crap Chromebooks.[/quote]

Nope. Not on Chromebooks. Regular good old fashioned teaching- you just don’t need textbooks to do it. It’s not 1988. [/quote]

Lol people are still complaining about textbooks? I graduated in 2002 and we didn’t have textbooks then. No, we weren’t on computers all day either. Try and keep up with the times, Jesus.[/quote]

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