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+1. If this is public education, taxpayers have the right to see what is being taught to kids, on-grade and above. Why are magnet/CES curricula such a secret?

They're not a secret. They're just not posted on line.

The magnet programs give teachers a lot of autonomy so it is not standardized.

Why?

Break up this mixed classrooms and make these kids accountable.

When they are given hours of busy work so the teacher can sit at a kidney-shaped desk with 4-5 kids for 10min st a time, the classroom is a disaster. No accountability. Goofing off, no learning, and way too much time for trouble

Put these kids in tracked rooms. I don’t care if the lowest group has 15 kids and the highest has 30. Just have a teacher teaching the class. Desks facing the teacher and collaborative thinking and work going on WITH the teacher. So sick of chrome books, worksheets, reading at your desk, and maybe 10min a day of teacher time being my child’s public education.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1. If this is public education, taxpayers have the right to see what is being taught to kids, on-grade and above. Why are magnet/CES curricula such a secret?

They're not a secret. They're just not posted on line.

The magnet programs give teachers a lot of autonomy so it is not standardized.

And it's great, but I want to see it, and I believe I have a right to. Don't I?

Have you asked them to show it to you?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1. If this is public education, taxpayers have the right to see what is being taught to kids, on-grade and above. Why are magnet/CES curricula such a secret?

They're not a secret. They're just not posted on line.

The magnet programs give teachers a lot of autonomy so it is not standardized.

And it's great, but I want to see it, and I believe I have a right to. Don't I?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1. If this is public education, taxpayers have the right to see what is being taught to kids, on-grade and above. Why are magnet/CES curricula such a secret?

They're not a secret. They're just not posted on line.

The magnet programs give teachers a lot of autonomy so it is not standardized.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1. If this is public education, taxpayers have the right to see what is being taught to kids, on-grade and above. Why are magnet/CES curricula such a secret?

They're not a secret. They're just not posted on line.

Wrong. Magnet curriculum is not standardized regardless of what central office and AEI claim. The best practices are not shared between schools. They say it is the basic MCPS curriculum with added stuff for enrichment. But there are a lot of differences between schools, assignments., projects , subject matter, grading and other rubrics of the projects.

Well, if it is available then share the curriculum on MyMCPS, why don't you MCPS? I speak as a parent/guardian of 4 magnet students who went to two different school magnet pyramids in ES, MS and HS. What is being taught and how it is being graded is different from magnet center to magnet center. Also, if a magnet teacher leaves, the replacement teacher has no idea what the previous magnet teacher taught.

Anonymous wrote:

+1. If this is public education, taxpayers have the right to see what is being taught to kids, on-grade and above. Why are magnet/CES curricula such a secret?

They're not a secret. They're just not posted on line.

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Anonymous wrote:Differentiation and tracking

Textbooks

Reinstate final exams

Fines for being absent

Mandatory attendance to summer schools and tutoring if below grade level, else you pay a fine

More instructional days, shorter summer vacation. More breaks between quarters for students to catch up if they are lagging behind

Hold students back if they are failing

Mandatory regular attendance. Unexcused absence should be fined

Increase school day by an hour. This hour should be reserved for homework.

Block scheduling

Teachers Aides in classroom

Better pay for teachers and less administrators in central office.

Maybe add school uniforms too.?

I think currciculum and instruction should be differentiated.

Best practices and resources should be collated and made standard for each level of curriculum and should be made available online for all parents and students to see. In other words, magnet curriculum should be also made available online for all students to access, along with ongrade and above grade level curriculum.

+1. If this is public education, taxpayers have the right to see what is being taught to kids, on-grade and above. Why are magnet/CES curricula such a secret?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Differentiation and tracking

Textbooks

Reinstate final exams

Fines for being absent

Mandatory attendance to summer schools and tutoring if below grade level, else you pay a fine

More instructional days, shorter summer vacation. More breaks between quarters for students to catch up if they are lagging behind

Hold students back if they are failing

Mandatory regular attendance. Unexcused absence should be fined

Increase school day by an hour. This hour should be reserved for homework.

Block scheduling

Teachers Aides in classroom

Better pay for teachers and less administrators in central office.

Maybe add school uniforms too.?

I think currciculum and instruction should be differentiated.

Best practices and resources should be collated and made standard for each level of curriculum and should be made available online for all parents and students to see. In other words, magnet curriculum should be also made available online for all students to access, along with ongrade and above grade level curriculum.

I think Discovery Education can close the achievement gap.

With the right mix of previous MCPS curriculum office Bieber’s and “talent” plus the heavy use of fantastic online videos, fresh new math computer games, and innovation ways to approach math in the 21st century, what could go wrong!?

Anonymous wrote:Differentiation and tracking

Textbooks

Reinstate final exams

Fines for being absent

Mandatory attendance to summer schools and tutoring if below grade level, else you pay a fine

More instructional days, shorter summer vacation. More breaks between quarters for students to catch up if they are lagging behind

Hold students back if they are failing

Mandatory regular attendance. Unexcused absence should be fined

Increase school day by an hour. This hour should be reserved for homework.

Block scheduling

Teachers Aides in classroom

Better pay for teachers and less administrators in central office.

Maybe add school uniforms too.?

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DP

How about we start with physical assault? If you physically assault another student, you are out.

We have had two well-known incidents of a student assaulting another student at our ES. Two separate students. Multiple incidents, witnessed by staff or teachers. Both students are allowed back in the classroom.

I don’t care what color the kids are. They need some consequences and the other kids should be protected from them.

Where do you go once you are out of the regular classroom?

MCPD has a ton of alternative programs. RIPA/Frost. MCPS even pays for staff at some parochial schools. My neighbor works for MCPS and teaches at a Jewish private school.

Yes, education is a right. But the 26 other kids in the classroom also have the right to feel safe in the classroom.