Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 12:38     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
How does HCPS compare to Moco?
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 12:35     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Both Howard and Frederick County are miles ahead of MCPS today. And MCPS special ed has become a laughing stock, as unqualified long term subs replace long-term special ed teachers.

LOL. You're joking, right?
MCPS runs circles around both of them in anything academically.


Yes, the poster doesn't care about that. The demographics of those counties is more similar to MCPS back in the 1980s.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 12:28     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Then name a district in Maryland that’s better and why. They all seem to be the same to me.


It isn't. The same student would do better in MCPS than anywhere else.

That's definitely true.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 12:27     Subject: Re:If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frederick and Howard County Public Schools seem to be better than MCPS. But to a PP's point, those are considerably smaller (population-wise) school districts.


I can attest that FCPS is not a better school district than MCPS. It might be calmer and have less drama; I give it that. I've had a kid in both systems. There are far more programs and opportunities at MCPS. Full stop. That said, FCPS is fine.


If your child attends Whitman, Wootton, Churchill, BCC, Poolesville, Blair, MCPS is better. Otherwise, FCPS is better.

No. FCPS has basically one school worth mentioning: Urbana.
And that school would be middle table in MCPS
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 12:24     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:Someone's likes the mcps coolaid.

You definitely didn't graduate from MCPS.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 11:45     Subject: Re:If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frederick and Howard County Public Schools seem to be better than MCPS. But to a PP's point, those are considerably smaller (population-wise) school districts.


I can attest that FCPS is not a better school district than MCPS. It might be calmer and have less drama; I give it that. I've had a kid in both systems. There are far more programs and opportunities at MCPS. Full stop. That said, FCPS is fine.


If your child attends Whitman, Wootton, Churchill, BCC, Poolesville, Blair, MCPS is better. Otherwise, FCPS is better.



YUP!
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 11:33     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:The thing about a system as large and geographically, culturally, and demographically diverse as MCPS is that it is not a monolith.

Experiences and outcomes between Paint Branch and Blair and Churchill and Clarksburg and Seneca Valley are going to vary so much between school and between individuals at those schools.


Or even individual students. because Ones with similar backgrounds do similarly. It's less a function of specific schools although highly concentrated poverty doesn't help.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 11:21     Subject: Re:If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frederick and Howard County Public Schools seem to be better than MCPS. But to a PP's point, those are considerably smaller (population-wise) school districts.


I can attest that FCPS is not a better school district than MCPS. It might be calmer and have less drama; I give it that. I've had a kid in both systems. There are far more programs and opportunities at MCPS. Full stop. That said, FCPS is fine.


If your child attends Whitman, Wootton, Churchill, BCC, Poolesville, Blair, MCPS is better. Otherwise, FCPS is better.


Blair SMCS > TJ
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 11:20     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:Then name a district in Maryland that’s better and why. They all seem to be the same to me.


It isn't. The same student would do better in MCPS than anywhere else.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 10:02     Subject: Re:If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frederick and Howard County Public Schools seem to be better than MCPS. But to a PP's point, those are considerably smaller (population-wise) school districts.


I can attest that FCPS is not a better school district than MCPS. It might be calmer and have less drama; I give it that. I've had a kid in both systems. There are far more programs and opportunities at MCPS. Full stop. That said, FCPS is fine.


If your child attends Whitman, Wootton, Churchill, BCC, Poolesville, Blair, MCPS is better. Otherwise, FCPS is better.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 09:34     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Are there any lawyers that take teachers cases who were bullied and careers messed up bc the bully and grade inflation culture was too much to handle?
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 09:06     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
The thing about a system as large and geographically, culturally, and demographically diverse as MCPS is that it is not a monolith.

Experiences and outcomes between Paint Branch and Blair and Churchill and Clarksburg and Seneca Valley are going to vary so much between school and between individuals at those schools.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 08:59     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
I wonder about the long-terms effects of the Monifa McKnight drama, which pealed back the curtain on a toxic bullying culture of staff that is baked into the MCPS as an organization.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 08:53     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Someone's likes the mcps coolaid.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2024 00:25     Subject: If MCPS is so bad
Anonymous wrote:Both Howard and Frederick County are miles ahead of MCPS today. And MCPS special ed has become a laughing stock, as unqualified long term subs replace long-term special ed teachers.

LOL. You're joking, right?
MCPS runs circles around both of them in anything academically.