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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

Maybe they are parents who want to come back to public (to save money!) and check to see how parents feel about things. I could see that. Or maybe they teach in MCPS but send their kids to private (we also see that).

Most public school teachers send their kids to private it seems. Pretty ironic

Not true at all

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

Maybe they are parents who want to come back to public (to save money!) and check to see how parents feel about things. I could see that. Or maybe they teach in MCPS but send their kids to private (we also see that).

Most public school teachers send their kids to private it seems. Pretty ironic

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Hasn't that already happened somewhat?

My sister runs a business and whenever she needs to hire someone, you should see the resumes she gets! She started administering a quick math test, and a test for things like putting words in alphabetical order, and it's proven to be incredibly difficult for people to pass! These are all high school graduates, and it's a pretty basic test.

Try going to a cashier with cash. They just can’t handle it even with computers tell No them the change. It is pathetic. Even better, if the cost is $10.40 and you given them a twenty and 4 dimes. Completely dumbfounded. I actually had a girl tell me she couldn’t do change like that. I have to give you back what it says on the screen. LOL.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

Maybe they are parents who want to come back to public (to save money!) and check to see how parents feel about things. I could see that. Or maybe they teach in MCPS but send their kids to private (we also see that).

Or maybe they want to feel good about the money they are spending so the best way to do it is to bash MCPS at every turn as possible (we see that).

Anonymous wrote:I posted above and I am a public school teacher whose kids are in a Catholic high school. The reality of public school is that you don't really need to work too hard for excellent grades. I believe excellent grades come from excellence. My kids coasted by getting excellent grades when they were handing in average work. Now they know how hard they need to work to achieve excellence. Well worth the tuition IMO.

If I may ask, where did you find tutors for your kids? Private school is out of our reach, but I'm seriously considering splurging on afterschool writing tutoring.

I posted above and I am a public school teacher whose kids are in a Catholic high school. The reality of public school is that you don't really need to work too hard for excellent grades. I believe excellent grades come from excellence. My kids coasted by getting excellent grades when they were handing in average work. Now they know how hard they need to work to achieve excellence. Well worth the tuition IMO.

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

Maybe they are parents who want to come back to public (to save money!) and check to see how parents feel about things. I could see that. Or maybe they teach in MCPS but send their kids to private (we also see that).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Wow! Not my experience at all.

I hate to be critical, but I think you all are getting a bad deal. This is not normal. In Kinder and first, teachers often don't correct spelling or grammar because children haven't been taught those things yet. But third graders? fourth? Fifth? That is a failure of your teacher, school, district. Complain.

Can you say which cluster your kids are in? I understand if you don’t want to post the ES name.

We are in a non-W cluster at a Focus ES and I often wonder if my kids are being short-changed due to incredibly low expectations.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Wow! Not my experience at all.

I hate to be critical, but I think you all are getting a bad deal. This is not normal. In Kinder and first, teachers often don't correct spelling or grammar because children haven't been taught those things yet. But third graders? fourth? Fifth? That is a failure of your teacher, school, district. Complain.

Complain to who? We’ve asked for feedback in previous years. The principal is not interested in discussing anything if your kid is already above reading level.

There’s not much parents can do. We’ve discussed this with other parents from different clusters and it seems to be a common frustration.

Not ideal, but parents are left to fill in the gaps at home. For so many things. Or hire tutors. Which is crazy, because there is no way the achievement gap will close that way!

Why are there so many private parents in MCPS discussions?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Hasn't that already happened somewhat?

My sister runs a business and whenever she needs to hire someone, you should see the resumes she gets! She started administering a quick math test, and a test for things like putting words in alphabetical order, and it's proven to be incredibly difficult for people to pass! These are all high school graduates, and it's a pretty basic test.

I believe it. The average American is quite dumb.

Which is why we have the politics we have. When people have no opportunities to improve their minds, never learn to think critically, never learn about world history in depth and past mistakes we should not repeat, what do we expect?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Wow! Not my experience at all.

I hate to be critical, but I think you all are getting a bad deal. This is not normal. In Kinder and first, teachers often don't correct spelling or grammar because children haven't been taught those things yet. But third graders? fourth? Fifth? That is a failure of your teacher, school, district. Complain.

Lol. You think I haven't complained? Get real. I did for years but in the end, my feet did the talking. Now my kids are in Catholic high schools. They both needed writing tutors for the first two years because they were so behind. Their Catholic school classmates had had many years of grammar, spelling and quality writing instruction. Now, the content as well as the mechanics count equally. Sad that I had to pay tutors to get them up to speed but someone had to do it. Public schools should be ashamed of what they are producing. It's no wonder so many of their graduates end up in remedial college courses.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Hasn't that already happened somewhat?

My sister runs a business and whenever she needs to hire someone, you should see the resumes she gets! She started administering a quick math test, and a test for things like putting words in alphabetical order, and it's proven to be incredibly difficult for people to pass! These are all high school graduates, and it's a pretty basic test.

I believe it. The average American is quite dumb.

Anonymous wrote:My son gets a grade, but there is little evidence that the teacher is interested in correcting misspells, grammar, syntax errors.
This is even in English.

Yes, by me.

I also taught them how to write letters, basic math, cursive, science principles, phonics, Grammar/parts of speech, number properties, and spelling. I honestly remember it all from my public school elementary education. Man have times changed in public school.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.

Wow! Not my experience at all.

I hate to be critical, but I think you all are getting a bad deal. This is not normal. In Kinder and first, teachers often don't correct spelling or grammar because children haven't been taught those things yet. But third graders? fourth? Fifth? That is a failure of your teacher, school, district. Complain.

Are your children in MCPS elementaries and middle schools now? Because due to demographic pressure, teachers don't have the time anymore.