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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've tried very hard to not Sh@t on MCPS for the past 15 years in which I have had kids attend MCPS schools. But I am going to start. 
I can handle the many issues that a big a diverse school system and individual schools have. Do I love fighting and drug dealing in schools? No, but my HSer avoids it and has still had a good experience socially. 
What is now getting me down is the academics. I don't think my kids will leave being well-educated. They have been taught the basics but not much beyond that. My 11th grader has read ONE book in English class this year and it makes my head explode. To date, for school, she's read one Shakespeare play. No To Kill A Mockingbird, no Anne Frank, and none of the classics. I realize that times have changed but still I am very very disappointed. [/quote]

Meanwhile my sophomore  has done a Shakespeare play, Catcher in the Rye,  and who knows what for short focus snippets.  Two things can be true at once.  I really don’t think that you or others have accepted that things change include millions of others books being published in the last 50+ years.  My kids are certainly getting a more complete, diverse, and honest understanding of history than I received in HS in a Private.  Kids can read books at home or on their own.  Reading Beowulf in HS wasn’t life changing.[/quote]

Do you think it's acceptable that PP's child has read one book in 11th grade English class this year?[/quote]

Depends on the book. Depends on what they did with that book? Depends on what else has been done during the year.

If PP’s child had read four books, I’m not more impressed just because it’s four books.  What skills has the class been working to attain, improve, demonstrate? How? If all that mattered was the quantity of books read, then English class could become book club with a monthly read and 2 classes of discussion. Said discussion likely isn’t that lively if half the class hates the book selected.  Class is made worse because they are being forced to slog through the book for a grade

People have idyllic views of what it’s like to assign a book to 150 teenagers.  I myself am more realistic and can remember what English class is really like in HS.[/quote]

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