Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey liberals none of your feel good moves will stop the decline of mcps.

IMO, stuff like this just makes things worse.

It takes the attention away from things that actually DO matter and make a good school system.

Changing a name of a school might earn votes, but it's not going to help the kids at that school perform better. MCPS needs to focus on making changes that help kids learn and help teachers do their jobs.

This stuff is completely nonsense.

You all sure are spending a lot of time and energy on opposing this, I must say. One might almost conclude that the idea of changing school names really bothers you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey liberals none of your feel good moves will stop the decline of mcps.

IMO, stuff like this just makes things worse.

It takes the attention away from things that actually DO matter and make a good school system.

Changing a name of a school might earn votes, but it's not going to help the kids at that school perform better. MCPS needs to focus on making changes that help kids learn and help teachers do their jobs.

This stuff is completely nonsense.

Anonymous wrote:Hey liberals none of your feel good moves will stop the decline of mcps.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Regarding Iceland, I didn't support my point, did I? I didn't do my research in other words; I simply guessed. So if you're referring to the Vikings and their slaves, you're just proving my point. WHICH country has a peaceful past?

This is a waste of time, IMO. Instead, we need to focus on transience/attendance, REAL grades, REAL rigor, and the teacher retention problem.

You wouldn't know b/c you're not educator, right?

We can focus on all of those things and school names too.

Except MoCo has proven incapable of focusing on “all those things.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Regarding Iceland, I didn't support my point, did I? I didn't do my research in other words; I simply guessed. So if you're referring to the Vikings and their slaves, you're just proving my point. WHICH country has a peaceful past?

This is a waste of time, IMO. Instead, we need to focus on transience/attendance, REAL grades, REAL rigor, and the teacher retention problem.

You wouldn't know b/c you're not educator, right?

We can focus on all of those things and school names too.

Anonymous wrote:Part of my family comes from England and Southern Europe.

I want reparations from the Vikings.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

omg

This is true across the ages. "Strong" conquers "weak," however you wish to define these terms. Armed vs. unarmed?

Which country has a peaceful past? Iceland perhaps?

Here are some tips:
1. You don't move forward w/o honoring the past.
2. Every person is a product of his/her environment. So we take the good with the bad.
3. Even if you teach - in detail - the history behind a school's name, the kids don't give a rat's a**.
4. This is a superficial, "snowflakey" attempt at addressing inequity in the system.

We are graduating kids who can't read. I hardly think that focusing on John Poole as a "bad man" will remedy that situation.

Fortunately nobody is doing that. "John Poole owned people as property" (a statement of fact) =/= "John Poole was a bad man".

Also, a really great way to honor the past is to stop naming schools after segregationists and defenders of slavery.

(Also you evidently don't know much about the history of Iceland.)

Regarding Iceland, I didn't support my point, did I? I didn't do my research in other words; I simply guessed. So if you're referring to the Vikings and their slaves, you're just proving my point. WHICH country has a peaceful past?

This is a waste of time, IMO. Instead, we need to focus on transience/attendance, REAL grades, REAL rigor, and the teacher retention problem.

You wouldn't know b/c you're not educator, right?

Anonymous wrote:
Regarding Iceland, I didn't support my point, did I? I didn't do my research in other words; I simply guessed. So if you're referring to the Vikings and their slaves, you're just proving my point. WHICH country has a peaceful past?

This is a waste of time, IMO. Instead, we need to focus on transience/attendance, REAL grades, REAL rigor, and the teacher retention problem.

You wouldn't know b/c you're not educator, right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are graduating kids who can't read. I hardly think that focusing on John Poole as a "bad man" will remedy that situation.

You work in education?

close to 25 years

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

omg

This is true across the ages. "Strong" conquers "weak," however you wish to define these terms. Armed vs. unarmed?

Which country has a peaceful past? Iceland perhaps?

Here are some tips:
1. You don't move forward w/o honoring the past.
2. Every person is a product of his/her environment. So we take the good with the bad.
3. Even if you teach - in detail - the history behind a school's name, the kids don't give a rat's a**.
4. This is a superficial, "snowflakey" attempt at addressing inequity in the system.

We are graduating kids who can't read. I hardly think that focusing on John Poole as a "bad man" will remedy that situation.

Fortunately nobody is doing that. "John Poole owned people as property" (a statement of fact) =/= "John Poole was a bad man".

Also, a really great way to honor the past is to stop naming schools after segregationists and defenders of slavery.

(Also you evidently don't know much about the history of Iceland.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are graduating kids who can't read. I hardly think that focusing on John Poole as a "bad man" will remedy that situation.

You work in education?