Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 19:59     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten at MCPS with 26 kids, no aide, no rotating aide and my child learning nothing but things they learned in preschool. Hanging out with kids that don't speak English. Good times!


Oh, the absolute horror!


Says the person whose kids do not go to school with 2/3 of the class Spanish speaking and 50% FARMS.


+1

My kid was bullied on the playground by Spanish-speaking kids at our Title I school with over 65% FARMS. It was a nightmare.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 16:32     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
DC charter school teachers who were incapable of handling a room full of 3-year olds for full day preschool who insisted on trying to label my kid special needs. A year of stress, specialists who were all over the map on their "findings," and $$ later, we finally realized they were lazy, clueless bastards and pulled our kid from the school. And guess what? He was totally fine in a new preschool.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 16:26     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We had a FCPS lower elementary teacher who spent every day ranting, yelling, and melting down in the classroom, losing the kids' work, keeping the entire class on continuous punishments, never allowing recess, and getting kids mixed up. She eventually had her single classroom job taken away, and was placed as a co-teacher in a language immersion classroom.

Our kid learned nothing academically that year. The kid did learn how to handle cruel and crazy teachers, which can come in handy later in life, but you hope for more when they're just little kids.


My DS had that teacher. He would wake up at night shouting her name in nightmares. Parents who did not have this teacher would just be like, glad its you not me.


I think my son had the same teacher. Did she teach third grade? She was a nightmare.


Yes. Third grade = 8 years old. What a bully!
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 16:10     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We had a FCPS lower elementary teacher who spent every day ranting, yelling, and melting down in the classroom, losing the kids' work, keeping the entire class on continuous punishments, never allowing recess, and getting kids mixed up. She eventually had her single classroom job taken away, and was placed as a co-teacher in a language immersion classroom.

Our kid learned nothing academically that year. The kid did learn how to handle cruel and crazy teachers, which can come in handy later in life, but you hope for more when they're just little kids.


My DS had that teacher. He would wake up at night shouting her name in nightmares. Parents who did not have this teacher would just be like, glad its you not me.


This sounds A LOT like a teacher who used to work at my school. However, she taught an upper elementary grade here before moving on to another school. She was a nightmare for her coworkers as well as her students.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 12:02     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We had a FCPS lower elementary teacher who spent every day ranting, yelling, and melting down in the classroom, losing the kids' work, keeping the entire class on continuous punishments, never allowing recess, and getting kids mixed up. She eventually had her single classroom job taken away, and was placed as a co-teacher in a language immersion classroom.

Our kid learned nothing academically that year. The kid did learn how to handle cruel and crazy teachers, which can come in handy later in life, but you hope for more when they're just little kids.


My DS had that teacher. He would wake up at night shouting her name in nightmares. Parents who did not have this teacher would just be like, glad its you not me.


I think my son had the same teacher. Did she teach third grade? She was a nightmare.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 11:26     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten at MCPS with 26 kids, no aide, no rotating aide and my child learning nothing but things they learned in preschool. Hanging out with kids that don't speak English. Good times!


Oh, the absolute horror!


Says the person whose kids do not go to school with 2/3 of the class Spanish speaking and 50% FARMS.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 08:50     Subject: Re:Your worst experience with a school or school system

My DS had that teacher. He would wake up at night shouting her name in nightmares. Parents who did not have this teacher would just be like, glad its you not me.


DS had a high school teacher who walked out and left. Just left. School couldn't replace her for months --due to proper procedures. Subs in the meantime.




Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 08:30     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:We had a FCPS lower elementary teacher who spent every day ranting, yelling, and melting down in the classroom, losing the kids' work, keeping the entire class on continuous punishments, never allowing recess, and getting kids mixed up. She eventually had her single classroom job taken away, and was placed as a co-teacher in a language immersion classroom.

Our kid learned nothing academically that year. The kid did learn how to handle cruel and crazy teachers, which can come in handy later in life, but you hope for more when they're just little kids.


My DS had that teacher. He would wake up at night shouting her name in nightmares. Parents who did not have this teacher would just be like, glad its you not me.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 06:53     Subject: Re:Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The whole process when dealing with a SN child- especially the IEP process. I have PSTD from it. Seriously.


don't tell me... it was in MCPS?


FCPS


Feel the same in LCPS. Our case included lots of retaliation against my elementary aged child. I'm still not over it and don't trust any school staff.


Can you elaborate please? We are going to go that route due to ADHD and thIs gives me the shivers


Yes and by the time you are done you no longer trust the school administrators. We gave up - I feared I would stroke over the process, I was so highly strung. Kid is in private and everyone is happy except our bank accounts.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 06:06     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We had a FCPS lower elementary teacher who spent every day ranting, yelling, and melting down in the classroom, losing the kids' work, keeping the entire class on continuous punishments, never allowing recess, and getting kids mixed up. She eventually had her single classroom job taken away, and was placed as a co-teacher in a language immersion classroom.

Our kid learned nothing academically that year. The kid did learn how to handle cruel and crazy teachers, which can come in handy later in life, but you hope for more when they're just little kids.

Going through this right now in K in MCPS extremely emotional teacher, picks on a couple of little boys in class, quick to punish and to yell. Hopefully, my DC will come out with some resilience out of this!


Curious which MCPS cluster you are in?
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 06:03     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Trying to get just a 504 in a FCPS ES school was a nightmare. Add to that bullying on the playground that was never seen by certain teachers, but was seen by a teacher who told me privately what was really going on. Reported it to the classroom teacher and the principal denied ever hearing anything. Thankfully we switched schools.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2015 04:12     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten at MCPS with 26 kids, no aide, no rotating aide and my child learning nothing but things they learned in preschool. Hanging out with kids that don't speak English. Good times!


Oh, the absolute horror!
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2015 14:05     Subject: Your worst experience with a school or school system
Kindergarten at MCPS with 26 kids, no aide, no rotating aide and my child learning nothing but things they learned in preschool. Hanging out with kids that don't speak English. Good times!
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2015 11:01     Subject: Re:Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:FCPS IEP process. It's not just the money we had to spend on private evaluations and advocates, it's the emotional ringer you go through when you know what the school is doing defies logic, is contrary to the law and is just morally wrong. Then, the cynicism that develops when FCPS quickly reverses itself when faced with a state complaint/attorney. It's colored all my interactions with them at IEP meetings. I know new school team members wonder why we insist on such detailed meeting notes and nitpick over words and meaning. It's because we learned the hard way that we have to document every detail.


+1


+ 2 and I'm an attorney. You still have to educate yourself on SN law and read up on IEPs. Or hire a consultant, or an SN lawyer.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2015 10:30     Subject: Re:Your worst experience with a school or school system
Anonymous wrote:FCPS IEP process. It's not just the money we had to spend on private evaluations and advocates, it's the emotional ringer you go through when you know what the school is doing defies logic, is contrary to the law and is just morally wrong. Then, the cynicism that develops when FCPS quickly reverses itself when faced with a state complaint/attorney. It's colored all my interactions with them at IEP meetings. I know new school team members wonder why we insist on such detailed meeting notes and nitpick over words and meaning. It's because we learned the hard way that we have to document every detail.


+1