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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
There is a big difference between have you had any good experiences with local staff at your MCPS school and have you had a good experience with MCPS. The better teachers once you get to know them will all start spilling the beans about how MCPS jerks them around horribly. Even the principals can't stand the ridiculous nonsense that comes down from the central office. MCPS is a horrible mismanaged system so few parents or educators have nice things to say about them.

This doesn't mean that there are not good people trapped in a bad system down at the local schools. There are some very creative teachers who are doing their best to go above and around MCPS dictates. There are teachers that add to the curriculum to make things more interesting. There are teachers who show kids the obligatory nonsense way of doing MCPS math and then let the kids do math the correct way. These are usually the rare math oriented teachers rather than the math phobic central staff types. They would be wonderful teachers anywhere but their ability to exist within this system is impressive.[/quote]

[quote]This is SPOT ON in my experience.

My kids have had some FANTASTIC teachers who do above and beyond, despite the crappy system they are forced to work in.

I would say I have had a good experience with the teachers/staff, but I firmly believe that MCPS is a terribly managed, too large school district. 100%. And, pretty much every teacher that I know will say the same thing.[/quote]

[quote]This has been my experience as well. I agree that good math instruction comes from teachers rather than the curriculum. I would add that I think the same holds true for language arts. If your child has had handwriting, grammar, systematic spelling, etc., you can thank the teacher.[/quote]

Adding on - this reflects the conversations I've had with other parents and teachers. Talking to parents who had kids go through the system before the 2.0 roll out say it had some problems but not the level of sheer disfunction that exists now. I really think the major mistake was destroying the curriculum and no one in MCPS taking responsibility for the disaster. Its as if it created this bubble in MCPS that nothing they did could ever get them fired so they could do anything and stop engaging parents. [/quote]

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