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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS parent here.  Buy a great house in an inexpensive area and start saving for private.  MCPS is a disaster.  Let me count the ways:
-teachers quitting retiring throughout.  They are overwhelmed and burnt out, and tired of bad behavior and no consequences for students (at all grade levels)
-lack of support from administration at all levels.  Teachers have no support from their principals and principals have no support from central office
-parents are impossible.  They are either not available (just try calling the many non-working numbers listed for how to reach a student's parent), or in your face about the grade a teacher "gave" their child.  Never mind what the student didn't turn in, or the grade the student earned.
-many schools with too many students.  This leads to class size of 26+ in kindergarten (with no assistant or aid), 30+ in MS and and 35+ in HS
-they don't hire people ft with benefits to help special ed students.  Most are termed temporary part time, which leads to many special ed students that are main-streamed with a one-on-one to not have a one-on-one, which means teacher is spending lots of time supporting the needs of the couple of kids that need more help, or worse, managing their behaviors
-focus of leadership is on bringing up test scores and equity.  Excellent goals, if what they were spending a fortune on actually worked, and if they didn't do it to the detriment of everything else. There's zero accountability for anyone, or for any program they roll out.

I could go on, but we pulled our last 2 out of what is supposedly an excllent MCPS cluster, and they will both graduate from private  [/quote]

I have to disagree. The demographics of the county have drastically changed over the past few decades, but the same opportunities exist today as in years past. My kids are getting an excellent education, but I'm not one of those parents who expect the county to raise my kids. went to a W 30 years ago. Their public education is vastly better than mine. In fact, we started at a focus school (higher FARMS) with smaller class sizes. This way, they at least got some instructional time in early ES. By the 4th grade, both got into what is now called CES for enriched ELA. Later both went to the MS STEM magnet. One is still there, and the other is in the HS magnet. We just make the best of things. Anyone can do this. It really isn't that hard.[/quote]

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