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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So to the people who complain about MCPS: what are you doing about it for your kid? [/quote]
well, I'm not shelling out $50K/year for private school, so I bought some workbooks for my kid when they were younger. I have never sent them to a tutoring place.

I also read through their essays and made them re-write portions of it that were awful, but the teacher didn't bother marking up or providing feedback - grammatical mistakes, punctuation issues, disorganized sentences and paragraphs.  I did this when the kids were in ES. They hated it at the time, but now that they are teens, they have admitted to me that this helped them become better writers.[/quote]

Are you confident that you can supplement to that extent? That’s always been my concern. I help reinforce what my daughter is learning, but don’t feel confident in my ability to make up for lack of foundational skills. [/quote]

If you’re on here having a discussion and following along you can supplement foundational skills.  There is thousands of workbooks and curriculum available, classes, and even resources available at the public library.,  MCPS also offers LOTS of resources(tutoring, parent academy, Saturday academy, summer school for students needing to catch-up,etc etc). MCPS does need to do a better job explaining all the available resources and how to access.[/quote]

This is so insulting to teachers. You think someone who can have a discussion on a message board is qualified to teach a child fundamental math and reading skills? If that’s true, then why waste money on training teachers? I guess we could just throw any able-bodied adult in there and they should be able to teach kids with resources they find on the internet.

What a joke. No wonder our kids are scoring so low.[/quote]

I KNOW that many people can teach [b]their own kid[/b] foundational math and reading skills with internet resources, rented or purchased curriculum and workbooks. Whether they choose to do so or not is a different situation. Also being able to teach your own child vs being able to teach a classroom of other people’s kids is a whole different ball game.[/quote]

It’s actually often more difficult to teach your own kid than other people’s kids. More emotions involved.[/quote]

Yet despite these emotions parents have managed to teach their kids dozens of things: chores,  driving, sports.  Is it frustrating at times, such, but people rise above emotion to do what is best or needed all the time.  The percent of homeschooling is rising by 2-10% each year.  Evidence that folks can teach their own kids.[/quote]

Cool.  You want me to teach my own kid?  We’ve been supplementing for years since we saw early on the gaps in an MCPS education.

Since you feel that I should educate my own kids and the school system is clearly not providing the service it is meant to (just look at the stats), we all deserve a tax refund.

Why are we pouring millions and millions of dollars into an ineffective school system when you say we should just be educating our own kids anyway?[/quote]

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