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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does MCPS not realize that nearly half their kids can’t read well and 2/3 aren’t proficient in grade level math?  But sure, let’s reward MCPS staff with 5 extra vacation snow days for not putting more than 1 snow day in the calendar and refusing to use the 3 makeup days in the calendar.
 
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On Tuesday, August 27, MCPS received test scores from the 2024 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP), which tests students’ math, reading and science skills, that show encouraging signs of growth and recovery and points to the fact that this trend may be starting to buck.

According to the recently-released MCAP testing data, the assessment saw around 55.3% of MCPS students achieve a rating of “proficient” in English Language Arts and 33.4% in mathematics. This marks a slight increase from the 54.4% and 32.8% of MCPS students who achieved the same rating of “proficient” in 2023 on the English Language Arts and mathematics tests, respectively. The county aims for constant improvement in academic performance, including a steeper increase in test scores. “We just need to accelerate [improvements], so we see a faster pace of growth,” MCPS Board of Education president Karla Silvestre said in an interview with Moco 360. 
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[b]This has nothing to do with rewarding staff and they are two seperate issues.  [/b]Its ironic people are saying virtual isn't effective, for a few days, when you look at these scores and how they've declined over the last 15 or so years.  MCPS and the BOE need to be held accountable.  The county council needs to stop heavily funding a failing school system.[/quote]

Yes, but what you’re not understanding is that you’re not speaking to rational people. You’re speaking to irrational, childish “parents” who want nothing more than to punish teachers and to make sure they aren’t getting anything the foot stomping parent doesn’t think they deserve. Oh, and their kids out of their house as much as possible. Their claims about “education,” 
literacy,” “2/3 of kids behind in math blah blah blah” are just a smokescreen.[/quote]

If some of these same parents spent more time with their kids and worked with them, they might not be so behind.[/quote]

These catty snide comments are not a good look for you. You just sound like you wish ill on people's kids.

MCPS has utterly failed at educating Black, Latino, and kids receiving FARMS. How have we sunk so low that the immediate response is "it's the parents' fault" when we know curricula are constantly changing with little attention paid to proper implementation and teachers are increasingly relying on screens and videos for things as simple as reading books to kids. As someone with a relatively high income with a kid who struggled in reading, I can tell you these disparities are not about bad parenting. They are because those of us with money and kids who are average academically quickly realize that MCPS instruction is not sufficient, so we pay $$ for tutors outside of school. It's insane how even in middle class neighborhoods nobody bats an eye when you say you hired a tutor, it is that common. I am not an educator, and I'm not qualified to fill in the gaping holes in the instruction in MCPS.[/quote]

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