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[quote=Anonymous]I find comments like run for school for board or vote for someone else to be very unhelpful. There seems to be no way where mainstraim parents can really put forward their voice. Most parents are not extremists and don't necessarily want to pick part apart the curriculum. We want basic common sense things that you would need with any curriculum.

1.) Hire more teacher aides. Bottom line, this resolves many issues. Struggling kids can get the extra assistance that they need and brilliant kids can accelerate in a meaningful way. Kids in the middle can get farther and find more satisfaction in what they are doing. Elementary school children, in particular, need more individualized and small group activities with a good teaching aide to lead them.

2.) Encourage and incentivize teachers to develop and share their creative approaches to teaching the curriculum. Teachers should get points for coming up with a neat science experiment, fun math game, or art project. Mentoring, training, and staff development needs to be funded and achievement needs to be rewarded.

3.) Focus on the whole child. Kids are at school 6 hours a day and are now learning more about social interaction through their peers than their parents. Schools, including elementary schools,  should have anonymous student surveys gaging student levels of anxiety, perceived bully/exclusionary behavior, self esteem, empathy, leadership etc. School sponsored activities should be designed to teach ethics, empathy, leadership, courage, and inclusion. Recess aides should be trained on how to positively re-direct behavior in younger kids not just stand around letting them "work it out" until one kid ends up getting suspended.

4. )Stop selling crappy food in the schools. I am as far from organic and anti-cupcake as you can get but the food in MCPS is complete crap. On top of this, there is a constant and almost weekly treat of some sort in the classroom. Its sad when a school needs to sell treats at lunch time to make extra money to pay for the .5 staff development position that is left over. [/quote]

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