Yeah thanks. It's important that people know the struggles that teachers face everyday without support. That way we can understand why it is unsustainable. You should be in the corner of teachers ie listening t I them when they tell you stories of the crime and violence in schools as well as the passing along of students that do no work and cause trouble everyday.

Anonymous wrote:Mcps fires teachers who can't manage to do enough song and dances to get students attention from their phones. With forced mandatory grade inflation and zero consequences for behavior the burden of learning is on the teacher. Teachers however have no support and all the blame. Sheesh. It's not worth the money to become a teachers and have students parents and admin fight you everyday then be discarded as trash.

You found a new forum! I was wondering where you went.

Mcps fires teachers who can't manage to do enough song and dances to get students attention from their phones. With forced mandatory grade inflation and zero consequences for behavior the burden of learning is on the teacher. Teachers however have no support and all the blame. Sheesh. It's not worth the money to become a teachers and have students parents and admin fight you everyday then be discarded as trash.

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Anonymous wrote:Are HCPSS middle and high school students effectively banned from using their cell phones during the school day. In MCPS nothing can be enforced so all the kids are on it during classes.

Sorry, that should be a question. Anyone?

At my kid's MCPS middle school, phones are absolutely banned during class.

Haha. That’s what you think.

And you would know where my kid goes to school, because you are a.. stalker?? I'm on the PTA board and I can tell you the date and time when the board was invited by the Principal to join her staff meeting to discuss implementing the no phone policy. My kid comes home from school and says the kids at school hate that teachers and staff are strict about not having phones in class and in the cafeteria. You're laughing.. because you know otherwise?

All right, I stand corrected on Core 2.0.

Still, HCPSS doesn’t have the 50% rule or Restorative Justice because there’s nothing to make the admins think they need it.

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Anonymous wrote:Howard county schools are much better than MCPS

But yet MCPS high schools are consistently the top in the state.

Individually for a handful of schools. This only helps if you live in one of the wealthier areas and your kids are zoned for the 5-6 top schools. If you are in the rest of the 90% of the school district, you have a much weaker school system than HCPSS. The school system in HCPSS is consistently stronger across the board. In general the majority of HCPSS ranks significantly better than the all but those top few schools.

dp.. as a PP noted, HCPSS has less lower income kids than MCPS. That's why you think it's "consistently stronger across the board". That may be a correct assessment but it's not a fair comparison.

Now, if you compare like for like, most of the Top HS in MD are in MoCo.

The bottom schools are why MCPS keeps experimenting with things like Core 2.0 and Restorative Justice and whatever else the admins are cooking up.

HCPSS doesn’t experiment as much because the school system is healthier. There isn’t much to be embarrassed about.

HCPSS’s biggest problem is overcrowding, but hardly anyone complains about the curriculum.

Wrong. Curriculum 2.0 was soft corruption of Jerry Weist. (Former Superintendent). It was a pure giveaway to Pearson Educational testing, UK.

After 2009 Great Recession the rapacious MCPS was going to to be seeing their budget flatline.

Nearly all of the 3 billion ANNUALLY goes to Union jobs, overly generous pensions and ridiculous health care costs - part time bus drivers getting their 650,000 back surgeries on MCPS then resigning.

MCPS teachers were suppose to write a Common Core curriculum that Pearson could monitize. Weist got all expenses paid trip to Australia, New Zealand and seed money for his educational consulting gig for hooking MCPS to Pearson, UK’s star.

Our kids personal information got hacked from Pearson servers in NYC in 2016 and the county - finally and nearly a DECADE after contract was signed - paid Johns Hopkins half a million to write a white paper saying it wasn’t effective during pandemic. When anyone loosely associated with Core screamed repeatedly it stunk in 2012.

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Anonymous wrote:Are HCPSS middle and high school students effectively banned from using their cell phones during the school day. In MCPS nothing can be enforced so all the kids are on it during classes.

Sorry, that should be a question. Anyone?

At my kid's MCPS middle school, phones are absolutely banned during class.

Haha. That’s what you think.

Anonymous wrote:Are HCPSS middle and high school students effectively banned from using their cell phones during the school day. In MCPS nothing can be enforced so all the kids are on it during classes.

No they are used by HoCo kids during the day as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Are HCPSS middle and high school students effectively banned from using their cell phones during the school day. In MCPS nothing can be enforced so all the kids are on it during classes.

Sorry, that should be a question. Anyone?

At my kid's MCPS middle school, phones are absolutely banned during class.

Anonymous wrote:Are HCPSS middle and high school students effectively banned from using their cell phones during the school day. In MCPS nothing can be enforced so all the kids are on it during classes.

Sorry, that should be a question. Anyone?

Are HCPSS middle and high school students effectively banned from using their cell phones during the school day. In MCPS nothing can be enforced so all the kids are on it during classes.

Howard does not have magnets which you can think is good or bad. My coworker once told me that every HS I hoco offered smcs like my DD got at Blair. Over time she realized her kids STEM track option...was not the same at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Howard county schools are much better than MCPS

But yet MCPS high schools are consistently the top in the state.

Individually for a handful of schools. This only helps if you live in one of the wealthier areas and your kids are zoned for the 5-6 top schools. If you are in the rest of the 90% of the school district, you have a much weaker school system than HCPSS. The school system in HCPSS is consistently stronger across the board. In general the majority of HCPSS ranks significantly better than the all but those top few schools.

dp.. as a PP noted, HCPSS has less lower income kids than MCPS. That's why you think it's "consistently stronger across the board". That may be a correct assessment but it's not a fair comparison.

Now, if you compare like for like, most of the Top HS in MD are in MoCo.

The bottom schools are why MCPS keeps experimenting with things like Core 2.0 and Restorative Justice and whatever else the admins are cooking up.

HCPSS doesn’t experiment as much because the school system is healthier. There isn’t much to be embarrassed about.

HCPSS’s biggest problem is overcrowding, but hardly anyone complains about the curriculum.

Anonymous wrote:50% is an F

averages are helped by 50%. It would go down significantly with a 0.

50% is an F