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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]38 pages of pissing back and forth... folks, if your kids are really smart, move to different school districts like howard county. if your kids are avg at best, stay in MCPS.[/quote]
The brightest, smartest kids in the DMV are in MCPS.  HoCo kids can't even compete with them. [/quote]

The state proficiency rate for Algebra I MCAP for 2023-2024 is 20 percent.

MCPS is slightly above that at 25.1 percent.  But Howard County is even better at 42.1 percent.

Here are the links to mdreportcard:

https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/Assessments/MathPerformance/UALG01/U/6/3/1/15/XXXX/2024

https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/Assessments/MathPerformance/UALG01/U/6/3/1/13/XXXX/2024

But it looks like you have to click around it for a bit to bring up the overall profiency percentages and the direct link doesn't work.

For reference, Frederick has a rate of 25.2, Baltimore County 31.8 and Prince George's County 8.8.

My concern and issue is that with the way things going, I don't see MCPS going the right direction with the things they're focusing on and the changes they're trying to make.  While every school system has issues, I would like to think some of the other ones are doing something right where they're able to get more students to pass the Algebra test.

Algebra is the most basic math course for high school.  Where students will struggle in the rest of the high school math course sequence if they don't have a solid foundation in Algebra.  Also students that struggle in Algebra, likely don't have a firm foundation in the math taken before it.  This is all assuming that the MCAP accurately reflects the knowledge a student has in Algebra.

But I think the days of thinking that MCPS as a top school district is an outdated notion.  Where you can point to other nearby school systems that perform better based on various measures.[/quote]
Those are not the brightest students. 
You would know that if you were bright. [/quote]

The brightness will flea away from MCPS. They stay because of these stellar county-wide SMACS/GE/IB programs, and there's no reason for them to stay. Howard County is way much better in terms of making sure high quality for overall education.[/quote]
Yeah, yeah. We have been hearing this for the last 15+ years. It is  HoCo and everyone else in the DMV's wet dreams, so they could finally be able to compete with MCPS. [/quote]

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