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[quote]I'm an MCPS teacher who strongly believes in public education, but I send my kids to Catholic school. I live in the neighborhood where I teach and the parents here are out of control. They refuse to hold their kids accountable, let them fail, or accept consequences. The entitlement of some of these kids is outrageous. The Catholic school my kids attend has a strong discipline system and the parents support it. [/quote]

[quote]This was true of us as well. The students at my W feeder were so out of control that I laughed when my principal suggested I COSA my child there. It was hard managing private ES on two MCPS salaries, but we made it to the age DC could latchkey. Discipline is less of a problem at my child’s DCC MS than the school where I teach. Looking to transfer away from parents with their heads in the sand and a lawyer on speed dial.[/quote]

two-teacher (MCPS) HH

We're moving out of county.  I simply cannot stand the excuses made for poor behavior, and I say this for ALL kids - regardless of race and SES status.  The parents with money use their lawyers to threaten the schools.  So even if the schools try to hold kids to certain standards of behavior and academic performance, parents intervene.  Minorities are also held to different standards, which is - in itself - racist.  Pushing a kid along - one who can't read on level - and blaming the teachers for issues beyond our control are two reasons that have soured me.

And guess what?  I blame us!  Until we start rocking the boat and taking our professions back, we will always be pawns.  sad, but true

If you think MCPS is worth saving, then inundate the BOE with letters.

One email address - boe@mcpsmd.org - goes out to all.

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I'm assuming you have perfect kids.  Lucky you.  You do realize that as a teacher, YOU failed a child if they cannot read.  That child should have been assessed and given significant interventions by 1st grade and parents shouldn't have to fight for basic supports.  We've spent a fortune on private interventions to keep our child at grade level because MCPS services and help are a joke.  Teachers are to blame.  They need to help advocate for kids and not let them fall through the cracks.  Our teacher clearly identified one area of need.  We held an IEP mention where we and the teacher agreed and they refused to give my child the basic support they needed.  So, instead, they failed him on that subject area in the report card we got a few days later and they never ever mentioned that he was going to fail in that IEP meeting (this a a two day difference).  [/quote]

Let’s start with ending social promotion. Can’t read by third grade, you repeat third grade. That way, middle schoolers aren’t acting up to disguise they can’t do the work. Teachers won’t be blamed for deficiencies that happened five years earlier in another school. And parents will have an accurate view of their child’s abilities. [/quote]

If a child cannot read by the 3rd grade, the school and parents both failed them.  MCPS waits till kids are much older to test for things like dyslexia and even then they don't provide targeted services.  Many parents cannot afford private services and testing.  You can blame the kids but reality is that someone failed them if they are not reading by the 3rd grade, even if it is just recognizing what the issue is.  I know several good kids where this has happened and its sad as parents waited too long to get them private help and the schools failed to recognize the issue.  It has nothing to do with social promotion.[/quote]

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