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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tough year for my ninth grader too.  What was challenging for us was the many different rules teachers had, many of which seemed totally inconsistent with the McPS reputation of “oh, stuff is rretakable, etc.”. Examples:

Child was sick for an entire week.  Came back and trying to make up tests from 7 classes at lunch, while still recovering.  One teacher had a sjngle day for test makeup.  Kid missed it and was given a zero on the test, no retake.

Lots of teachers with No ippprtunity for late turn in of Hw, even with a 504.  If you forget to turn it in at start of class, it’s a zero.

A couple of teachers who didn’t put grades into gradebook until day before interim grades.  Realized then that she didn’t have an important assignment my kid thought he had turned in, but no chance to turn in late because it’s already interim deadline.

One teacher who was just …. Mean and arbitrary.  A bunch of kids dropped class and a bunch of parents have complained and I think teacher is in a disciplinary process but it made for a really hard year with a lot of mental energy expended trying to avoid minimize conflict with teacher and figure out their expectations.

In general, I think McPS is pretty good but it is really a lot to deal with…
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Yes! Yes! All of this! You captured it. 
If you have a kid with executive functioning issues, you are screwed. My kid has a 504 and had all of these same experiences. 
I have friend with no complaints bc their kids are self sufficient in this way. I get it, I have one of those too. But my other kid is not like that. 
Get an EF coach. Seriously best decision we made. But again this relies on parents to put in the time to help with content and pay for external resources. [/quote]

The funny thing is most people complain that teachers are too lenient with all the retakes etc. No matter what MCPS does you just can't please everyone.[/quote]

I've had three kids now go through MCPS and it is COMPLETELY ARBITRARY.  Some teachers are really lenient with retakes.  Others are completely strict and unreasonable.  My kids take the advanced classes, and in my experience, the vast majority of tests are NOT eligible for retake.  Maybe 1-2 a semester might be.  And a lot of teachers have very strict rules about when you can take the retake (only one option, if you can't make it that day or don't have time to restudy prior to that, too bad).  If I had to discern any particular rule, is that the teachers teaching the easy classes are just handing out A's, whereas the teachers teaching the harder classes can be incredibly strict.
I don't ever complain about the retake policy -- if kids can learn the materials at any point, that is the most important.

I actually think they should report straight-up percentage points for every class for each semester.  That would be more fair than this system where the kids that are most successful at gaming the system to end up with 89.5% in one quarter for each class (and 79.5% in the other quarter) somehow end up with straight A's.  [/quote]

For us MCPS has been great. I've had two kids go through it. Both were 99% on all their standardized tests and in magnets from early on. Overall think it's great because there are so many opportunities for kids who want to learn.[/quote]

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