Anonymous wrote:At B-CCs new student parents' night (so 9th graders and new other graders). There was an emphasis on both achievement and enabling all students to excel (no use of he language "achievement gap," it was more along the lines of access and encouragement. The principal and staff definitely stressed that B-CC is a strong school academically, but also stressed that they were trying to make sure that all students have access to the resources that they need. Maybe this reflects the line that B-CC has been forced to walk over the past five years or so that the other W schools have not - being a strong academic and inclusive school.

good for them because both things are achievable, despite the fact that there are those who would like to convince us otherwise

At B-CCs new student parents' night (so 9th graders and new other graders). There was an emphasis on both achievement and enabling all students to excel (no use of he language "achievement gap," it was more along the lines of access and encouragement. The principal and staff definitely stressed that B-CC is a strong school academically, but also stressed that they were trying to make sure that all students have access to the resources that they need. Maybe this reflects the line that B-CC has been forced to walk over the past five years or so that the other W schools have not - being a strong academic and inclusive school.

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Anonymous wrote:Who else feels this way? At back to school night, Parents were lectured on inclusiveness in a prerecorded message by the Superintendent. But not a word about curriculum advances, or new technology or what MCPS is doing to better the learning environment for children. Not a word about excellence, acheivement, goals or EDUCATION. All Montco cares about is closing the acheivement gap which is impossible with an exploding immigrant class to the area. We moved here for the schools before curriculum 2.0. No way MCPS keeps its repuation as the best. It is all down hill when the goal for a school system is no longer about actual education and learning for all children but is instead about social justice.

#GIRL BYE!!
Only an ass would assume that inclusion and closing the gap somehow precludes excellence and achievement.
STFU!

NP here. Your post still begs the question as to why, assuming no incompatibility between these concepts, inclusiveness and closing an achievement gap are considered worth emphasizing, while academic excellence and innovation are not.

We all know it's easier to close a gap by bringing down the high-achievers than raising the performance of the low-achievers. If that's what MCPS articulates as its top priority, of course it will trigger concerns.

AND ONE VIDEO IS NOT A CURRICULUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE CURRICULUM IS WHAT THEY TEACH THE KIDS, NOT 2 MINUTES OF VIDEO EXPLAINING ONE OF THE PRIORITIES.
TELL US HOW THE CURRICULUM OR BETTER YET, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CURRICULUM AT YOUR SCHOOL PROVES THAT THE HIGH ACHIEVERS ARE NOT HAVING THEIR NEEDS MET AND THEIR PROGRESS IS BEING DELIBERATELY THWARTED BY THE PRESENCE AND EDUCATION OF BLACK AND BROWN KIDS!
YES, I'M YELLING 'CAUSE I'M SICK OF THIS GARBAGE.
BETWEEN YOU AND DRUMPF, I'M ABOUT TO LOSE MY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

NP here. The presence of low achievers in a class for sure affects the quality of education high achievers get. That's a no brainer. Are you disputing that?

Anonymous wrote:I think someone on this forum is a 5yr old or at least acting and spelling like one.

To be fair, I saw lots of all-caps but no misspellings.

Its enraging a lot of people because the opening post is just a total nonsense. The back to school night is not about the curriculum in any detail, its a cursory introduction and the start of hopefully positive communication between families and the school.

What makes it worse is that the OP is calling people narrow minded and slanderous when she/ he has posted about an "immigration explosion" which is a) non existent and b) dragging down her kid. While in fact I expect the immigrants who do appear in her Bethesda school (yes I know which school that she is referring to) are actually boosting grades.

Further, the public schools do not have to lay out their educational ethos for you on these nights.

If you want that, go to a private. I'm serious, because that is exactly what they are selling and how they do it.

I think someone on this forum is a 5yr old or at least acting and spelling like one.

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Anonymous wrote:Who else feels this way? At back to school night, Parents were lectured on inclusiveness in a prerecorded message by the Superintendent. But not a word about curriculum advances, or new technology or what MCPS is doing to better the learning environment for children. Not a word about excellence, acheivement, goals or EDUCATION. All Montco cares about is closing the acheivement gap which is impossible with an exploding immigrant class to the area. We moved here for the schools before curriculum 2.0. No way MCPS keeps its repuation as the best. It is all down hill when the goal for a school system is no longer about actual education and learning for all children but is instead about social justice.

#GIRL BYE!!
Only an ass would assume that inclusion and closing the gap somehow precludes excellence and achievement.
STFU!

NP here. Your post still begs the question as to why, assuming no incompatibility between these concepts, inclusiveness and closing an achievement gap are considered worth emphasizing, while academic excellence and innovation are not.

We all know it's easier to close a gap by bringing down the high-achievers than raising the performance of the low-achievers. If that's what MCPS articulates as its top priority, of course it will trigger concerns.

AND ONE VIDEO IS NOT A CURRICULUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE CURRICULUM IS WHAT THEY TEACH THE KIDS, NOT 2 MINUTES OF VIDEO EXPLAINING ONE OF THE PRIORITIES.
TELL US HOW THE CURRICULUM OR BETTER YET, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CURRICULUM AT YOUR SCHOOL PROVES THAT THE HIGH ACHIEVERS ARE NOT HAVING THEIR NEEDS MET AND THEIR PROGRESS IS BEING DELIBERATELY THWARTED BY THE PRESENCE AND EDUCATION OF BLACK AND BROWN KIDS!
YES, I'M YELLING 'CAUSE I'M SICK OF THIS GARBAGE.
BETWEEN YOU AND DRUMPF, I'M ABOUT TO LOSE MY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Who else feels this way? At back to school night, Parents were lectured on inclusiveness in a prerecorded message by the Superintendent. But not a word about curriculum advances, or new technology or what MCPS is doing to better the learning environment for children. Not a word about excellence, acheivement, goals or EDUCATION. All Montco cares about is closing the acheivement gap which is impossible with an exploding immigrant class to the area. We moved here for the schools before curriculum 2.0. No way MCPS keeps its repuation as the best. It is all down hill when the goal for a school system is no longer about actual education and learning for all children but is instead about social justice.

#GIRL BYE!!
Only an ass would assume that inclusion and closing the gap somehow precludes excellence and achievement.
STFU!

NP here. Your post still begs the question as to why, assuming no incompatibility between these concepts, inclusiveness and closing an achievement gap are considered worth emphasizing, while academic excellence and innovation are not.

We all know it's easier to close a gap by bringing down the high-achievers than raising the performance of the low-achievers. If that's what MCPS articulates as its top priority, of course it will trigger concerns.

THEY ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO BACK TO STORMFRONT

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Anonymous wrote:Who else feels this way? At back to school night, Parents were lectured on inclusiveness in a prerecorded message by the Superintendent. But not a word about curriculum advances, or new technology or what MCPS is doing to better the learning environment for children. Not a word about excellence, acheivement, goals or EDUCATION. All Montco cares about is closing the acheivement gap which is impossible with an exploding immigrant class to the area. We moved here for the schools before curriculum 2.0. No way MCPS keeps its repuation as the best. It is all down hill when the goal for a school system is no longer about actual education and learning for all children but is instead about social justice.

#GIRL BYE!!
Only an ass would assume that inclusion and closing the gap somehow precludes excellence and achievement.
STFU!

NP here. Your post still begs the question as to why, assuming no incompatibility between these concepts, inclusiveness and closing an achievement gap are considered worth emphasizing, while academic excellence and innovation are not.

We all know it's easier to close a gap by bringing down the high-achievers than raising the performance of the low-achievers. If that's what MCPS articulates as its top priority, of course it will trigger concerns.

At our school they definitely emphasized academic achievement. We didn't even see the video. I find it curious that one individual's back to school experience was used to make a sweeping generalization that "MCPS schools are no longer the best".

We didn't see a video at back to school night.

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Anonymous wrote:Who else feels this way? At back to school night, Parents were lectured on inclusiveness in a prerecorded message by the Superintendent. But not a word about curriculum advances, or new technology or what MCPS is doing to better the learning environment for children. Not a word about excellence, acheivement, goals or EDUCATION. All Montco cares about is closing the acheivement gap which is impossible with an exploding immigrant class to the area. We moved here for the schools before curriculum 2.0. No way MCPS keeps its repuation as the best. It is all down hill when the goal for a school system is no longer about actual education and learning for all children but is instead about social justice.

#GIRL BYE!!
Only an ass would assume that inclusion and closing the gap somehow precludes excellence and achievement.
STFU!

NP here. Your post still begs the question as to why, assuming no incompatibility between these concepts, inclusiveness and closing an achievement gap are considered worth emphasizing, while academic excellence and innovation are not.

We all know it's easier to close a gap by bringing down the high-achievers than raising the performance of the low-achievers. If that's what MCPS articulates as its top priority, of course it will trigger concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, there is nothing wrong with saying my best friends are black.

I agree that MoCo as a whole focuses too much on issues pertaining to the immigration community. Just look at your local county libraries. ESL classes, computer training classes and I'm like #250 on hold for a new fiction book. The schools here are not focus on improving academic achievement..

FWIW, I'm an immigrant myself..

WTF? What does being #250 for a library book have to do with immigrants? And I don't know if you realize this but the achievement gap exists for the black American-born student group as well. FWIW, I'm an immigrant, too, educated in the US, and we go to the library often, too. Sorry, we are adding to your long wait. This was one of the oddest posts.

It's yet another example of how your tax dollars are redirected to bringing up the bottom instead of providing basic services to all (enough books). You can forget about the county challenging any of the other populaces here adequately.

PP here... my one kid was in HGC and in compacted math and was sufficiently challenged. The other DC, not yet old enough for HGC, is also sufficiently challenged, reading above grade level. They go to the school library and check out books once a week.

That other PP mentioned books in relation to the public library which has nothing to do with not enough books in school. Again, that was a very odd post.

THE LIBRARY DOES NOT HAVE TO GUARANTEE ENOUGH BOOKS FOR EVERYONE TO GET THEIR 1ST PICK EVERYTIME THEY GO TO THE LIBRARY DUM-DUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Immigrants and their children do very well in school.

Yes I'm an immigrant, a very high achieving one and my kids are too. RACIST (to the original poster).

OP here. That word has absolutely lost it's meaning and does not hurt me one bit. It says way more about you that you would resort low ball name calling. My best friends are black, asian hispanic. A dinner party at my house looks like the UN. Guess what? They also wwant the public schools to focus on a quality education for the children, acheivement, excellence. But they aren't small minded like you.

Grow up and Get out -- we do not need your narrow minded,self centered, misleading, misinformed, mal-intentioned kind here in MCPS.
We can help folks along without dropping our own ball, but people like you fail to realize this.
You talk about kids for whom English is a 2nd language but I bet you want your precious snowflake to take a foreign language.
Here's a foreign language for you to teach them: COMPASSION

My kid's school PREACHES mastery as the goal, they are committed to excellence and achievement for EVERYONE. Some of my kid's classes have 20+, some have fewer than 15.
Your thinking is rotten and your attitude is worse.

Anonymous wrote:Who else feels this way? At back to school night, Parents were lectured on inclusiveness in a prerecorded message by the Superintendent. But not a word about curriculum advances, or new technology or what MCPS is doing to better the learning environment for children. Not a word about excellence, acheivement, goals or EDUCATION. All Montco cares about is closing the acheivement gap which is impossible with an exploding immigrant class to the area. We moved here for the schools before curriculum 2.0. No way MCPS keeps its repuation as the best. It is all down hill when the goal for a school system is no longer about actual education and learning for all children but is instead about social justice.

#GIRL BYE!!
Only an ass would assume that inclusion and closing the gap somehow precludes excellence and achievement.
STFU!

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Anonymous wrote:We had our BTSN last night. No prerecorded video, and we had in-class sessions with the teachers. It went really well. We learned how homework will be handled this year, when the kids have electives, and what positive behaviour stuff they are doing in the classroom.

I think the older grades did team presentations, but that's because the older kids switch classrooms.

Where was this?

NP.. the prerecord video was not part of the classroom presentations. It's usually done at the very beginning with the entire staff and all parents. So, I don't know if maybe that PP didn't have an all parents/staff presentation or just missed it.

PP here. I was a little late, so maybe I just missed it. They did something at the beginning, announced staff changes and additional staff, and then released everyone to their child's classrooms.