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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]

Well, it’s an anonymous message board, so anyone can post anything.  It was partially during Covid, so it’s very possible the rigor wasn’t there.  I was honestly shocked when she finished her first semester with a sub 3.0 GPA.  I had so many people tell me that she would be very prepared for college compared to kids from other school systems and it just wasn’t the case for her.[/quote]

Did you ask her what contributed to that GPA?  Has she been able to reflect and determine how to be better for next semester?[/quote]

Yeah, she was able to figure out what to do.  She started taking notes, reorganizing them, massively increased time studying, made sure she learned things in footnotes, things the professor mentioned in class but didn’t go over in detail etc. This happened a few years ago.  She’s a senior now and has a 3.6 cumulative, so she’s was able to turn it around.  She’s very bright; I think she was able to get by before college on that. I would have liked things in HS to have forced her to learn these habits earlier.[/quote]

NP. This is why we have hired an executive function tutor for my kid, who would have no idea how to take notes, study, and organize himself without the tutor. MCPS really does kids a disservice by making it so easy to get by without these skills. [/quote]

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