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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't know if you can find anyone worse. People hated Weast, but at least he had a vision - especially when it boiled down to professional development. [b]And while Weast labeled low performing schools as red zone schools, he did acknowledge there was a disparity among area schools. [/b]

Starr has nothing to his name. He tried to highlight social-emotional learning, but no one - aside from school psychologists - really understands the research behind it and how it can be applied to instructional practices.  [/quote]

This. You can't solve a problem if you keep trying to hide that you have it. The whole 2.0 and everyone is a P disaster is all about hiding the achievement gap rather than solving it. Bussing kids around isn't going to make any difference either. It will just divert funds to buses not actually teaching students.

If MCPS wants to solve the achievement gap, it needs to stop passing the buck until its too late. This starts in ES with giving actual assessments and tests to identify early on when students are failing. It means giving after school tutoring programs and rewarding students for improvement. It means giving kids back their tests and exams and requiring every kids that scored below a certain percentage to attend tutoring, correct their mistakes and take a make up until they pass. [/quote]

This and also holding parents accountable. I was on welfare growing up. Both my parents worked. I only saw my father for a few hours on Sunday and my mom late in the afternoon. They were exhausted. But they always made sure we did our homework and instilled the importance of a good education. All 4 of us graduated college.

I would suggest having schools for low performers. If a child isn't doing well, give the home school an opportunity to address and if the child continues to fall short, move them to a school that has teachers and an environment that will help them come up to speed. Having underperforming kids in the classroom brings the entire classroom down and the teachers focus energies to bring the low performers up to speed. [/quote]

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