Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 20:48     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A survey on DCUM is like a bucket of warm spit. All the unhappy posters and the cranks come out of the woodwork. The posters with no strong feelings shrug their shoulders and move on.

I just went over to OP's private school thread. (My kids have been in public and private schools.) I have to say, it looks like OP knew her conclusion before she started: she was absolutely right to go private, 2.0 has just made things worse, and despite the fact that almost everyone in MCPS must be miserable, the only reason we haven't seen a mass defection to join her family in private school is that none of us can afford it. One or two anecdotes have been provided and OP thinks this makes a dataset. Whatever.


I am the OP of this thread. I am very happy with my experience of MCPS, including 2.0. My hypothesis is that there has been a lot of talking about "everybody will pull their children out because of 2.0 and go private, and that will show MCPS so there ha!" but little doing.

The OP of the other thread, on the private school forum, is a different person who apparently put their child in private school after hearing people talk about 2.0.


Thanks for explaining, I didn't realize you were two different people! I take back my charge that you're just trying to prove your priors.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 20:24     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:A survey on DCUM is like a bucket of warm spit. All the unhappy posters and the cranks come out of the woodwork. The posters with no strong feelings shrug their shoulders and move on.

I just went over to OP's private school thread. (My kids have been in public and private schools.) I have to say, it looks like OP knew her conclusion before she started: she was absolutely right to go private, 2.0 has just made things worse, and despite the fact that almost everyone in MCPS must be miserable, the only reason we haven't seen a mass defection to join her family in private school is that none of us can afford it. One or two anecdotes have been provided and OP thinks this makes a dataset. Whatever.


I am the OP of this thread. I am very happy with my experience of MCPS, including 2.0. My hypothesis is that there has been a lot of talking about "everybody will pull their children out because of 2.0 and go private, and that will show MCPS so there ha!" but little doing.

The OP of the other thread, on the private school forum, is a different person who apparently put their child in private school after hearing people talk about 2.0.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 20:19     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
A survey on DCUM is like a bucket of warm spit. All the unhappy posters and the cranks come out of the woodwork. The posters with no strong feelings shrug their shoulders and move on.

I just went over to OP's private school thread. (My kids have been in public and private schools.) I have to say, it looks like OP knew her conclusion before she started: she was absolutely right to go private, 2.0 has just made things worse, and despite the fact that almost everyone in MCPS must be miserable, the only reason we haven't seen a mass defection to join her family in private school is that none of us can afford it. One or two anecdotes have been provided and OP thinks this makes a dataset. Whatever.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 20:13     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
What school is that?
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 20:12     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Have applied for private school next year (for 4th grade) precisely because of 2.0.

A spot has not yet opened up in that grade (the private was at full enrollment for that age group) but we are hopeful it may open up over the summer. It seems like the school has had an increase in applicants for 2nd, 3rd, 4th grades because of the parents who are dissatisfied with the 2.0 curriculum.

Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 18:46     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Would pull them out in a heart beat if we could afford it. At least my child will get some accelerated math next year with the new compacted math class. Third grade has been a waste.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 16:48     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous question, I think. There are a lot of parents (and teachers, I might add) who think 2.0 is a disaster. I'm a parent who thinks it is a disaster. That said, I don't have the $30k per year for my twins to pull them out and put them in private school.
What is your point? If you assume that, simply b/c parents haven't pulled their kids from MCPS and sent them to private school, they must be happy with 2.0. If you make that assumption, you will be missing the point entirely.


I am the OP, and no, I am not making that assumption.

My point is to test my hypothesis that, despite lots of posts on this forum on DCUM about the scores of people who are pulling their children out of MCPS because of 2.0, there really aren't all that many people who actually are doing it.


"Actually doing it" - private school that is -- is and EXTREMELY expensive proposition! There is no useful correlation between WANTING to pull a child out of 2.0 and ACTUALLY being able to PAY for private school. Trust me, if we could afford it, we would pull my kid right away!
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 16:25     Subject: Re:Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In response to the poster's question, I would switch to private school if we could afford it. But we cannot afford a downcounty mortgage where we were supposedly buying for the good schools. The curriculum is awful and I am baffled as the parent of a kindergartender to learn that we do not get final report cards if our kids are doing "okay." One 10-min conference in early Nov is the extent of teacher input. I am not sure what my property taxes are paying for exactly. If things do not improve, we weill downsize our home and go to private.

DCUM gets a bad rap for the cattiness between posters. The previous posts that pick on the OP for not posting on the private forum just confirm this. Curriculum 2.0 is a MCPS issue.


I am baffled as the parent of a 2nd grader that you don't realize parent-teacher conferences did not change under 2.0
Same as it was before...
Also baffled as to what it is you need to know from your kid's teacher that you cannot get by emailing and asking for a meeting?
What exactly do you need to know....how 2.0 is going to keep ur card out of Harvard.


PP here -- excuse the typos -- I learn't it from 2.0!
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 16:21     Subject: Re:Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:In response to the poster's question, I would switch to private school if we could afford it. But we cannot afford a downcounty mortgage where we were supposedly buying for the good schools. The curriculum is awful and I am baffled as the parent of a kindergartender to learn that we do not get final report cards if our kids are doing "okay." One 10-min conference in early Nov is the extent of teacher input. I am not sure what my property taxes are paying for exactly. If things do not improve, we weill downsize our home and go to private.

DCUM gets a bad rap for the cattiness between posters. The previous posts that pick on the OP for not posting on the private forum just confirm this. Curriculum 2.0 is a MCPS issue.


I am baffled as the parent of a 2nd grader that you don't realize parent-teacher conferences did not change under 2.0
Same as it was before...
Also baffled as to what it is you need to know from your kid's teacher that you cannot get by emailing and asking for a meeting?
What exactly do you need to know....how 2.0 is going to keep ur card out of Harvard.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 16:10     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Yes. I agree. Actually, that was part of my point too. One reason I don't think that tons of people would go private, no matter how awful 2.0 was, is that they can't afford it. Starting with the 1/3 of students in MCPS who have FARMS.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 16:05     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous question, I think. There are a lot of parents (and teachers, I might add) who think 2.0 is a disaster. I'm a parent who thinks it is a disaster. That said, I don't have the $30k per year for my twins to pull them out and put them in private school.
What is your point? If you assume that, simply b/c parents haven't pulled their kids from MCPS and sent them to private school, they must be happy with 2.0. If you make that assumption, you will be missing the point entirely.


I am the OP, and no, I am not making that assumption.

My point is to test my hypothesis that, despite lots of posts on this forum on DCUM about the scores of people who are pulling their children out of MCPS because of 2.0, there really aren't all that many people who actually are doing it.



And they may not be doing it because they don't have the financial means to do so.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 15:32     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Maybe I've missed something but I don't recall a ton of people saying they were going to go private. I just recall a ton of bitching about 2.0 (I'm not saying it was unwarranted).
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 15:20     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
I understand. But that is a different, larger question (which actually already has had lots of discussion).
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 15:13     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous question, I think. There are a lot of parents (and teachers, I might add) who think 2.0 is a disaster. I'm a parent who thinks it is a disaster. That said, I don't have the $30k per year for my twins to pull them out and put them in private school.
What is your point? If you assume that, simply b/c parents haven't pulled their kids from MCPS and sent them to private school, they must be happy with 2.0. If you make that assumption, you will be missing the point entirely.


I am the OP, and no, I am not making that assumption.

My point is to test my hypothesis that, despite lots of posts on this forum on DCUM about the scores of people who are pulling their children out of MCPS because of 2.0, there really aren't all that many people who actually are doing it.


Maybe I'm missing the point, but for many, pulling their children from public school isn't a financially feasible alternative. Even though they are dissatisfied with 2.0
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2013 15:04     Subject: Private school b/c of 2.0? Post here.
Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous question, I think. There are a lot of parents (and teachers, I might add) who think 2.0 is a disaster. I'm a parent who thinks it is a disaster. That said, I don't have the $30k per year for my twins to pull them out and put them in private school.
What is your point? If you assume that, simply b/c parents haven't pulled their kids from MCPS and sent them to private school, they must be happy with 2.0. If you make that assumption, you will be missing the point entirely.


I am the OP, and no, I am not making that assumption.

My point is to test my hypothesis that, despite lots of posts on this forum on DCUM about the scores of people who are pulling their children out of MCPS because of 2.0, there really aren't all that many people who actually are doing it.