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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly is declining for your kids academically or otherwise? 
Lots of posts also saying classes are hard or too accelerated and lots of pressure to do well academically. Courses seem rigorous for the most part. 
If your kid goes, pays attention and puts in the work to learn, they will learn and succeed.

[b]If kids don’t go, play on their screens instead of pay attention, don’t do the homework or study at home, then they may not succeed so much.[/b] All this stuff is the parents’ responsibility and to motivate their kids.

Yes MCPS can change many things but it’s still going to come down to what you and your kid put into to it. [/quote]

My problem is my kid didn’t work very hard in MCPS and still got pretty good grades.  3.8/4.5.  [b]Never learned to study efficiently or any time management skills. [/b] The first year of college was brutal for her as she simply wasn’t prepared.  And she took 10 AP classes, so it’s not like there wasn’t rigor.   [/quote]

If she took 10 AP classes with rigor and never learned any time management or study skills I’d question the rigor of those classes or if what you’re saying is true.[/quote]

You're right, but that would still be an indictment of MCPS, who is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the rigor that the AP brand is known for. Parents don't design or run the AP/IB classes at MCPS.[/quote]

True.  But parents should realize if their kids have learned time management and study skills.  This is why folks keep trying to explain to ya’ll that the root of the problems are shared between parents and the district.[/quote]

Ok, but clearly MCPS bears the burden of the responsibility here. And if the classroom grades, which most parents use to indicate whether their child has subject-matter mastery and grade-level appropriate work-study habits, indicates everything is fine, why would you expect parents to think otherwise?

In fact, teachers HAVE the ability to provide parents with feedback on work-study habits, but MOST TEACHERS DON'T. They leave that blank on the progress report or report card.

So again, you're blaming parents for something that is squarely the responsibility of MCPS.[/quote]

+1 apparently a lot of people believe MCPS can't be held accountable for educational outcomes, and that's preposterous.[/quote]

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