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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

As usual you like to pretend all MCPS parents are working from home in their jammies making $200k which is completely divorced from reality.

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Anonymous wrote:The problems are diverse, but they point back to the same cause: MCEA's control of the Board of Education. Until the union falls apart, MCPS isn't likely to get better.

MCEA has frequently fought with the BOE and the BOE doesn't listen to MCEA. Don't think that's the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue isn’t MCPS. Its society. This is the first generation being raised with phones and iPads as easy entertainment. Kids don’t learn to manage themselves, think for themselves, be creative, etc. Their parents are millennials who were raised in structured activities, trophy for everything, and now don’t have some essential parenting skills like setting boundaries.

The public education system isn’t designed to be a service industry that so many people treat it as. Too many people (federal, state, local, individual) have very different ideas of how it should operate, which pulls it in too many directions. Yes there are plenty of problems, but it’s not something that MCPS alone can fix.

Stop giving MCPS an out for its dysfunction:

- Cycling through 3 different superintendents in the past 2 years is very much a uniquely MCPS problem
- The Beidleman Scandal is definitely an MCPS problem and issue, not a national one
- The EV Bus contract mismanagement was also an MCPS problem, not a national one
- The Woodward/Northwood construction fiasco is also MCPS

Even if we want to give MCPS a pass for the trends associated with teacher/principal burnout and increases in student misbehavior, there is massive corruption, instability and leadership failures within the school system that exacerbate those issues. MCPS IS the problem.

You need to fix the top to fix these issues. Start with the BOE. They all need to be removed (we will see about the new ones).

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

What?? Doctors and nurses who are in fact essential went to work everyday also. Does that suddenly mean they are able to abdicate responsibility from parenting? Because they were in person during the pandemic means their kids can show up to school lacking respect, understanding of basic boundaries, and how to spell their name?

That’s like saying because military personnel deploy to war their kids are exempt from acting civilized in school and working to learn. No one believes that and certainly not anyone in the military that serves with honor.

Parenting is parenting and expected regardless.

Anonymous wrote:The problems are diverse, but they point back to the same cause: MCEA's control of the Board of Education. Until the union falls apart, MCPS isn't likely to get better.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

Any job that could went remote so there was much more distancing and you cannot compare a large school of 500-3400 students plus staff to an office or anything else.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue isn’t MCPS. Its society. This is the first generation being raised with phones and iPads as easy entertainment. Kids don’t learn to manage themselves, think for themselves, be creative, etc. Their parents are millennials who were raised in structured activities, trophy for everything, and now don’t have some essential parenting skills like setting boundaries.

The public education system isn’t designed to be a service industry that so many people treat it as. Too many people (federal, state, local, individual) have very different ideas of how it should operate, which pulls it in too many directions. Yes there are plenty of problems, but it’s not something that MCPS alone can fix.

Millennials didn’t entirely raise this generation of school kids. It’s a combination of gen x and millennials.

Yeah those two groups have really distinct ideas about how life should look for kids and discipline.

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Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS. Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space? And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue isn’t MCPS. Its society. This is the first generation being raised with phones and iPads as easy entertainment. Kids don’t learn to manage themselves, think for themselves, be creative, etc. Their parents are millennials who were raised in structured activities, trophy for everything, and now don’t have some essential parenting skills like setting boundaries.

The public education system isn’t designed to be a service industry that so many people treat it as. Too many people (federal, state, local, individual) have very different ideas of how it should operate, which pulls it in too many directions. Yes there are plenty of problems, but it’s not something that MCPS alone can fix.

Stop giving MCPS an out for its dysfunction:

- Cycling through 3 different superintendents in the past 2 years is very much a uniquely MCPS problem
- The Beidleman Scandal is definitely an MCPS problem and issue, not a national one
- The EV Bus contract mismanagement was also an MCPS problem, not a national one
- The Woodward/Northwood construction fiasco is also MCPS

Even if we want to give MCPS a pass for the trends associated with teacher/principal burnout and increases in student misbehavior, there is massive corruption, instability and leadership failures within the school system that exacerbate those issues. MCPS IS the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue isn’t MCPS. Its society. This is the first generation being raised with phones and iPads as easy entertainment. Kids don’t learn to manage themselves, think for themselves, be creative, etc. Their parents are millennials who were raised in structured activities, trophy for everything, and now don’t have some essential parenting skills like setting boundaries.

The public education system isn’t designed to be a service industry that so many people treat it as. Too many people (federal, state, local, individual) have very different ideas of how it should operate, which pulls it in too many directions. Yes there are plenty of problems, but it’s not something that MCPS alone can fix.

Millennials didn’t entirely raise this generation of school kids. It’s a combination of gen x and millennials.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested.

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.

+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations. They said *everyone* does it.

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.