Anonymous wrote:Why do parents seem more unhappy with MCPS than DCPS or FCPS, based on this forum?

Because most of the people posting here are not MCPS parents. They are most trolls, private schools parents, other jurisdictions wannabes.
MCPS is the big Dog in the area, and everybody loves to hate on the big Dog.

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Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous students who are not graduating are in school for a month longer. How can this be fixed?!

Why is it ridiculous? Why would seniors need to stay after all the AP/IB exams are done? There's almost a month left for all the other students. That's a lot of learning to be had.

Not if your junior is in a class/s with lots of seniors. My junior has several classes where they are the only student or only a handful left. Some teachers will continue to teach, others not.

Most teachers have a blessing in disguise when mcps fires teachers for reporting crime as the stress of covering up for students who attack the teachers and other students can be bad for the health.

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Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous students who are not graduating are in school for a month longer. How can this be fixed?!

Why is it ridiculous? Why would seniors need to stay after all the AP/IB exams are done? There's almost a month left for all the other students. That's a lot of learning to be had.

This has how it has worked for a long time.Aren't you glad that your students are receiving so many learning days? If you want your students to be out of school in May, switch to a private school and pay a lot of money for fewer learning days.

Why do parents seem more unhappy with MCPS than DCPS or FCPS, based on this forum?

Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous students who are not graduating are in school for a month longer. How can this be fixed?!

Why is it ridiculous? Why would seniors need to stay after all the AP/IB exams are done? There's almost a month left for all the other students. That's a lot of learning to be had.

Hallelujah. Today was our last day dealing with MCPS, except for graduation. Everyone in our family is so happy to be done.

^ it's a much smaller county. there has been a big increase in number of students in Montgomery county and it's the largest county in the state.

In Howard county, every elementary school has gifted classes which do semi-tracking but also allow on-ramp/off-ramp movements. There is also countywide acceleration program in middle school that is available to the tippy-top students. This kind of tiered acceleration pathway was what MCPS used to be renowned of, but we tear it apart by our leaders.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving out of MoCo at the end of this school year. Good luck to you who remain.

To where?

Howard County.

Demographics, it’s smaller, and less parents likely to whine and go to the media or sue for everything. That’s it. They have families there that complain about the same things as MCPS families.

It's not perfect, but Howard schools have higher academic outcomes. I might be willing to further tolerate MoCo tax increases, but Taylor is disassembling academic achievement in MCPS. And he wants more money to do it.

No, they don’t

+1 when comparing the same demographic groups, proficiency rates are pretty similar between MoCo and Howard

It's ridiculous students who are not graduating are in school for a month longer. How can this be fixed?!

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Anonymous wrote:Moving out of MoCo at the end of this school year. Good luck to you who remain.

To where?

Howard County.

Demographics, it’s smaller, and less parents likely to whine and go to the media or sue for everything. That’s it. They have families there that complain about the same things as MCPS families.

It's not perfect, but Howard schools have higher academic outcomes. I might be willing to further tolerate MoCo tax increases, but Taylor is disassembling academic achievement in MCPS. And he wants more money to do it.

No, they don’t

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Anonymous wrote:Moving out of MoCo at the end of this school year. Good luck to you who remain.

To where?

Howard County.

Demographics, it’s smaller, and less parents likely to whine and go to the media or sue for everything. That’s it. They have families there that complain about the same things as MCPS families.

It's not perfect, but Howard schools have higher academic outcomes. I might be willing to further tolerate MoCo tax increases, but Taylor is disassembling academic achievement in MCPS. And he wants more money to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving out of MoCo at the end of this school year. Good luck to you who remain.

To where?

Howard County.

Demographics, it’s smaller, and less parents likely to whine and go to the media or sue for everything. That’s it. They have families there that complain about the same things as MCPS families.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving out of MoCo at the end of this school year. Good luck to you who remain.

To where?

Howard County.

What's different in Howard county other than it is a smaller county?

Better schools.