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Anonymous wrote:My child’s MCPS kindergarten class has 22 kids. Hope it stays that way!

This my kids school is small class sizes and lots of empty rooms. I think it is either haters or one or two poorly run schools that most likely no one wants to go to anyway.

? what is this supposed to mean? By very definition, the reason the class sizes are huge is because there are too many kids who go to that school.

Poorly run schools? How are large class sizes indicative of it being poorly run? The school doesn't have a say in how many teachers or classroom it gets.

Although I don't honestly have facts, I suspect my kids high-school has the funds for more teachers but is unable to use them since they're already very overcrowded and lack ANY additional classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:My child’s MCPS kindergarten class has 22 kids. Hope it stays that way!

This my kids school is small class sizes and lots of empty rooms. I think it is either haters or one or two poorly run schools that most likely no one wants to go to anyway.

My child’s MCPS kindergarten class has 22 kids. Hope it stays that way!

It's what an earlier poster said about the principals. There are 25 new ones this year, a HUGE number. The new ones are top busy looking out for their careers, trying to please MCPS, and do not know how to "work the system" to get what the kids need.

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Anonymous wrote:We have 32 kids in 3rd grade. Nothing new here. MCPS sucks

+1. MCPS parents can no longer brag about how great their schools are, they are an embarassment.

Still better than anything around the area, though.

Not quite.

Did you see the Washington Post article about PARCC scores?

Howard County and Anne Arundel are better performing. MCPS is on a definite downward trajectory.

for a comparison of scores to be meaningful especially when reducing it to an average or median you have to compare similar cohorts otherwise your simply looking at demographic differences.

HCPS FARMs 22%
MCPS 35%

Don't know about Anne Arundel

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Anonymous wrote:We have 32 kids in 3rd grade. Nothing new here. MCPS sucks

+1. MCPS parents can no longer brag about how great their schools are, they are an embarassment.

Still better than anything around the area, though.

Not quite.

Did you see the Washington Post article about PARCC scores?

Howard County and Anne Arundel are better performing. MCPS is on a definite downward trajectory.

for a comparison of scores to be meaningful especially when reducing it to an average or median you have to compare similar cohorts otherwise your simply looking at demographic differences.

Our principal explained that there was a cut-off date after which they could not get extra teachers to divide up overpopulated classes, and that this deadline was always very early into the school year. Perhaps it's already past?

Anyway, I am convinced our principal has a pull with MCPS and knows how to work the system, because she has successfully navigated these issues in all the 7 years we've been in this school. Every time there was an overpopulation issue the last week before school, a new teacher materialized soon after. The only time one of my children's classes ended up topping the limit, was mid-year in first grade, when new students arrived in January.

So I think your school's PTA should be asking some hard questions of your principal.