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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Four months isn't too short to make an assessment of her child's experience. It would be foolish to just keep waiting around for some miraculous change that isn't going to happen. If private is an option for the OP then she should look into it for next year. Now is the time when private schools start doing open houses and admissions season will start soon for next year.

OP- many people in MCPS can't swing the cost of private. There is a lot of bitterness and denial. People want to believe that they scored a great deal on free education or don't want to believe that they wasted money moving to the burbs for a mediocre school system. There are also a lot of people who just don't care and this is fine too. MCPS isn't horrible but it doesn't provide a great learning environment. The goals and incentives are just very different for MCPS employees than they are at a private school. You are not going to change MCPS. You won't be able to influence anything and you are basically at their whims because in the end they aren't accountable to the students or the parents.

You can search through all the threads but you'll see a trend in problems with the curriculum, very large class sizes with a wide range of abilities, no acceleration, overwhelmed teachers who don't have time to grade or provide meaningful feedback, lots of seat work and worksheets, limited access to the school, no textbooks and very little substantive material on what your child is doing, no real grading until middle school, bad math program, inconsistent reading program, and a crap shoot on whether you get a good, mediocre or terrible teacher. If you believe, like some do, that your child can learn independently despite all this, then MCPS is a better deal. If you believe, like many others do, that your child needs a more professional learning environment focused on actual learning then go private. [/quote]

Wow PP.  Do you have actual experience with MCPS?  Am also unsure of what you mean by many in MCPS cannot swing the cost of private and thus have to settle for an inferior education for their children.  Is your assessment of MCPS based solely on your reading from DCUM threads or on some actual data to substantiate your assessment?  
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