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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The OP is right. GTA couldn't get support form even a small fraction of parents. PP--not even one percent of those labeled have commented. 104 comments? You lost--just admit it that parents are fed up with the divisive ways of the new GTA administration. When did you guys get elected? What have you done with the money? Just stop attacking parents and get your leaders to stop emailing everyone in MCPS and the county council at the drop of a hat.[/quote]

I do not really give a damn about the GTA, what you think about the GTA or whether you care about opportunities for your children to get a challenging education in MCPS. There are parents who do care their children get appropriate and challenging instruction in school (MCPS).  Many of us have no where to turn for help.  Some of us do not give a damn about your infatuation with "gifted" labels.  We do give a damn if a 5-year-old child with mastery of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication is sitting in a MCPS classroom with 25 others simply counting up to 100 all day long for 2-3 years.  When situations like this occur all over the MCPS landscape no amount of child education and development theory, power point presentations, smoke screens, secrecy, nontransparency, clandestine policies can cover up what is a simple farce masquerading as mathematics education (for this 5-year-old in question).  Many parents find it hard to believe MCPS cannot find a mechanism to reach this particular 5-year-old at their math level.  Are MCPS elementary math teachers in K-5 incompetent?  Or are they forced to follow the lead of an incompetent Principal who may be following the lead of incompetent MCPS leadership?  Each conspirator fearing backlash from above if they fail to tow the party line?  Many parents are leery of speaking up and speaking their minds because the maturity level of those in MCPS schools assures a backlash against their children and many want to spare their children the psychological trauma of system vindictiveness.  Parents simply put down their arms and take matters into their own hands ... or the hands of "outside tutors"...resigned to public school (MCPS) as a vehicle for developing friendships (MCPS teachers serving as 6 hour/day baby sitters) with the most important education (academic and intellectual challenge) occurring outside of the MCPS classroom (e.g., online and offline education).  For many in MCPS the real education of their children occurs on the weekends (and evenings) ... ironically in many of the MCPS brick and mortar school buildings!  MCPS is slowly transforming itself into a $2 billion/year massive after care social service with the teachers relegated to baby sitters...the Principal, the head baby sitter.
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