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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

There are a lot of kids who do not thrive in a high-stakes testing environment. Retaining knowledge in certain subjects is important, but there is more than one educational technique to facilitate that. The HS kids are already extremely stressed out, why focus on finals? Meet the children where they are, it is not all about the next level.

Meetings kids where they are is why we’re in this situation in the first place.

MCPS’s whole philosophy has been to teach down to where kids are, rather than pushing them at all.

The proficiency rates show that approach has failed.

Not to mention, every post-secondary educational setting will involve cumulative tests. Not prepping kids for that situation is just setting them up for failure.

SERIOUSLY! Thank you! The "meet children where they are" mafia has had their time in the sun. ENOUGH!

My kid finished the first week book for middle school english in two days (he liked the book). But it's assigned to the class (a chapter a night) to be read over a 3 week period. It's too bad the large classes and curriculum don't allow for more differentiation. We weren't keen on the magnets and a long commute for our kids, but yes, the curriculum isn't pushing kids very hard (English is not my kid's best subject), and the big class sizes don't allow the teacher much opportunity for differentiation.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

There are a lot of kids who do not thrive in a high-stakes testing environment. Retaining knowledge in certain subjects is important, but there is more than one educational technique to facilitate that. The HS kids are already extremely stressed out, why focus on finals? Meet the children where they are, it is not all about the next level.

Meetings kids where they are is why we’re in this situation in the first place.

MCPS’s whole philosophy has been to teach down to where kids are, rather than pushing them at all.

The proficiency rates show that approach has failed.

Not to mention, every post-secondary educational setting will involve cumulative tests. Not prepping kids for that situation is just setting them up for failure.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

There are a lot of kids who do not thrive in a high-stakes testing environment. Retaining knowledge in certain subjects is important, but there is more than one educational technique to facilitate that. The HS kids are already extremely stressed out, why focus on finals? Meet the children where they are, it is not all about the next level.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

Final exams? That could hurt somebodies feelings or appear racist. That crap is from when America was great. We’re happy down here in the sloppy slovely disheveled sewer catching West Nile virus and Monkeypox.

And then when they get to college, they have a damn rude awakening when they realize they’ll actually have to write papers, read books, and take final exams.

Not really. Colleges have had to adjust to reality and meet students where they are.

My daughter who coasted through MCPS definitely had a rude awakening at college. She was able to get a 3.8/4.5 gpa in HS with almost no effort. Had less than a 3.0 first semester in college and was legitimately working hard; just didn’t have the study skills necessary after not needing to study for 4 years. She said the kids from private schools were much better prepared. She adapted though.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

Final exams? That could hurt somebodies feelings or appear racist. That crap is from when America was great. We’re happy down here in the sloppy slovely disheveled sewer catching West Nile virus and Monkeypox.

And then when they get to college, they have a damn rude awakening when they realize they’ll actually have to write papers, read books, and take final exams.

Not really. Colleges have had to adjust to reality and meet students where they are.

Only the crappy colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

Final exams? That could hurt somebodies feelings or appear racist. That crap is from when America was great. We’re happy down here in the sloppy slovely disheveled sewer catching West Nile virus and Monkeypox.

And then when they get to college, they have a damn rude awakening when they realize they’ll actually have to write papers, read books, and take final exams.

Not really. Colleges have had to adjust to reality and meet students where they are.

I am sure that Colleges have made some adjustments to help students, but I am not sure that the adjustments are always the type you would want or that they are done as often as you would like.

For students going to MC as early college for engineering track, they must take an online chemistry prep program (not for credit) in the summer before college and score high enough to be allowed to participate in the program. Some might say this is a great adjustment, some might think it is not.

MC has continued its grading policy where kids cannot turn things in late, must attend class, cannot reassess, etc. Of course some exceptions for extreme cases might be made, but they have appeared to be strictly adhering to this policy.

What types of adjustments have you seen? Are these the sort of adjustments you were referring to?

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Anonymous wrote:It was a nice run. Publics are done. They just can’t handle the disheveled country especially when they are the most disheveled. Too much laziness and less than zero production among everyone involved most importantly the slovenly sloppy mental midget faculty

If public’s are finished then so is much of society as the only thing that makes Charters and Privates allowable in our current society is that Public School has to take everyone.

MCPS HS have 2000 students. There are K-12 privates that don’t have half as many students in total.

Yep. I mean, there are 180,000 K-12 students in MoCo. 85% of them are in public school.

https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2022.S1401?t=Education&g=050XX00US24031

15 percent have the means to escape.

True. Look around. Only 15 percent of people have it together. The population looks horrible and still dropping.

That Census data is terrific. You can use the Census tract numbers to narrow the data down to your specific neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:It was a nice run. Publics are done. They just can’t handle the disheveled country especially when they are the most disheveled. Too much laziness and less than zero production among everyone involved most importantly the slovenly sloppy mental midget faculty

If public’s are finished then so is much of society as the only thing that makes Charters and Privates allowable in our current society is that Public School has to take everyone.

MCPS HS have 2000 students. There are K-12 privates that don’t have half as many students in total.

Yep. I mean, there are 180,000 K-12 students in MoCo. 85% of them are in public school.

https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2022.S1401?t=Education&g=050XX00US24031

15 percent have the means to escape.

True. Look around. Only 15 percent of people have it together. The population looks horrible and still dropping.

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Anonymous wrote:It was a nice run. Publics are done. They just can’t handle the disheveled country especially when they are the most disheveled. Too much laziness and less than zero production among everyone involved most importantly the slovenly sloppy mental midget faculty

If public’s are finished then so is much of society as the only thing that makes Charters and Privates allowable in our current society is that Public School has to take everyone.

MCPS HS have 2000 students. There are K-12 privates that don’t have half as many students in total.

Yep. I mean, there are 180,000 K-12 students in MoCo. 85% of them are in public school.

https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2022.S1401?t=Education&g=050XX00US24031

15 percent have the means to escape.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

Final exams? That could hurt somebodies feelings or appear racist. That crap is from when America was great. We’re happy down here in the sloppy slovely disheveled sewer catching West Nile virus and Monkeypox.

And then when they get to college, they have a damn rude awakening when they realize they’ll actually have to write papers, read books, and take final exams.

Not really. Colleges have had to adjust to reality and meet students where they are.

Colleges have slipped into the abyss as well outside a few rigorous majors. Have to believe people will stop going into heavy debt for a pile of crap at some point.

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Anonymous wrote:It was a nice run. Publics are done. They just can’t handle the disheveled country especially when they are the most disheveled. Too much laziness and less than zero production among everyone involved most importantly the slovenly sloppy mental midget faculty

If public’s are finished then so is much of society as the only thing that makes Charters and Privates allowable in our current society is that Public School has to take everyone.

MCPS HS have 2000 students. There are K-12 privates that don’t have half as many students in total.

Yep. I mean, there are 180,000 K-12 students in MoCo. 85% of them are in public school.

https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2022.S1401?t=Education&g=050XX00US24031

Anonymous wrote:It was a nice run. Publics are done. They just can’t handle the disheveled country especially when they are the most disheveled. Too much laziness and less than zero production among everyone involved most importantly the slovenly sloppy mental midget faculty

If public’s are finished then so is much of society as the only thing that makes Charters and Privates allowable in our current society is that Public School has to take everyone.

MCPS HS have 2000 students. There are K-12 privates that don’t have half as many students in total.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the article. What an absolute mess.

I can’t understand how anyone can continue defending this district or pretending it’s providing kids with a high quality education.

Can you post it online? I don't think it's on their website, which is annoying.

Try this: https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda-sept-2024?ff

It starts on page 64.

Wow. The article was good and thorough. The responses from MCPS, via its spokesperson, was absolutely pathetic. MCPS has no shame.

Where was MCPS’s response to the article?

There were several responses from someone only identified as an MCPS spokesperson in the article.....

Oh, yeah — I saw those. I thought you meant they’ve responded separately.

Their statement about final exams was pathetic.

Final exams? That could hurt somebodies feelings or appear racist. That crap is from when America was great. We’re happy down here in the sloppy slovely disheveled sewer catching West Nile virus and Monkeypox.

And then when they get to college, they have a damn rude awakening when they realize they’ll actually have to write papers, read books, and take final exams.

Not really. Colleges have had to adjust to reality and meet students where they are.

MCPS never had an edge.