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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This county is so full of whiners, it’s insane. We are always moving due to military positions and I’ve never seen a more pathetic school community. No one thinks or talks about their school district,this much,anywhere else. This is a special breed of humans in the worst way possible. Glad to be done in a few months and back to where sane people exist. [/quote]

Having worked in a couple of local school systems and trading notes with others that have as well, I think the consensus is that you tend to hear more from families in the counties with a wealthier population.  You hardly hear from families in counties that have more of a working class population.

You might call it entitlement in some ways.  But I also see it as families being more invested in their kids' education.  Just look at the population in Montgomery County.  A good number are/were Federal workers who worked in NIH or HHS, so are researchers, have doctorates, etc.  So their standards for education are higher.  I can say in multiple school systems some of the biggest time sinks are some of these Federal workers who apparently are researchers and have nothing better to do but create websites and newsletters with their analysis on why the local school system(not just MCPS and not just one person) is horrible and we have to talk with them on how they came about their numbers and analysis.

[b]I don't like the way MCPS and Montgomery County is going.  But I don't think it's a horrible school system and students should still do okay with it as long as families don't settle for the status quo.[/b]  So it is perfectly okay to complain or advocate for their students.[/quote]

The bolded is where I am. It's not a bad school system, it's better than the ones I grew up in for sure. It's also got a lot of problems. Some of those problems are problems with most school systems in 2026 (too much edtech for one example), some are specific to MCPS (bad leadership at the top), but there are problems. As a parent, I speak out about the problems I see.

And yeah, I'm well educated. I have expectations of the public school system to be more than "fine." I don't have hugely high expectations (I don't care much about access to the very top math classes), but I do have expectations. I get suspicious though, when someone treats expectations of more than mediocre as a problem.[/quote]

Most families don’t see the school system as terrible. And having lived others place I know with absolutely certainly that it’s better than most.

Does it have its issues? Certainly. Should there be improvements in places and parents voices heard about that? Again certainly. [b]But MCPS could do with a lot less interference from parents/community[/b].  The need to talk to everybody and everything requires so much time. And everyone is doing so much to avoid winding up in the news or sued. It’s definitely a whiny place.[/quote]

This is a tell that you work for MCPS.

Because in no way does MCPS even deter itself from doing what it wants to do despite massive parent/community pushback and feedback.

And the fact that you believe parents/community should take whatever scraps MCPS gives it and not push back is undemocratic and antiethical to the idea of what public education is supposed to be. There's a reason why the school board positions are elected.[/quote]

+100

Every staffer that is buying into the Parents are the Enemy talking point should be fired.

Sorry you don't like working for a public school district. Go work somewhere else if you don't like being held accountable for how tax dollars are spent you lazy stupid biches[/quote]

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