Anonymous
01/15/2024 17:17
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Wrong. Curriculum 2.0 was soft corruption of Jerry Weist. (Former Superintendent). It was a pure giveaway to Pearson Educational testing, UK.
After 2009 Great Recession the rapacious MCPS was going to to be seeing their budget flatline.
Nearly all of the 3 billion ANNUALLY goes to Union jobs, overly generous pensions and ridiculous health care costs - part time bus drivers getting their 650,000 back surgeries on MCPS then resigning.
MCPS teachers were suppose to write a Common Core curriculum that Pearson could monitize. Weist got all expenses paid trip to Australia, New Zealand and seed money for his educational consulting gig for hooking MCPS to Pearson, UK’s star.
Our kids personal information got hacked from Pearson servers in NYC in 2016 and the county - finally and nearly a DECADE after contract was signed - paid Johns Hopkins half a million to write a white paper saying it wasn’t effective during pandemic. When anyone loosely associated with Core screamed repeatedly it stunk in 2012.
Not quite. Granted, Curriculum 2.0 Math was a disaster (and still is - many teachers still use it) But it was not "original". Somewhere between 50% and 80% of the math was directly taken from Eureka Math (a fine, rigorous curriculum - then known as Engage NY), coupled with another 10% to 20% from The Mathematics Vision Project. Many of the errors in C2.0 came from MCPS' Frankenstein-like stitching together of these two dissimilar curriculum, and the un-vetted remains that MCPS cobbled together themselves.
Not sure how Pearson could have sold products that were clearly copyrighted by the above. (I think both were open source, but still under copyright). Maybe Pearson had no idea what MCPS had done.
Do agree that we (ex) teachers agreed that C 2.0 was junk; the underlying materials were fine, just MCPS mangled them trying to "mix their own"
Anonymous
12/05/2023 17:03
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
We certainly used to and some schools in MCPS still do. But equity initiatives are dragging the top down while doing almost nothing to lift the bottom (something about leading a horse to water) so MCPS has been sinking for quite some time.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Not true. But you continue to live in your MCPS 2.0 bubble where you think that you are still the best school district in the state.
We carry the state
Anonymous
12/05/2023 16:27
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Say what, now? Hahahaha.
What I said. No school in HoCo can even come close to compete with Blair.
Blair runs circles around them.
This may be true for the magnet portion of Blair, which is a small subset of Blair. But the regular in-bounds portion of Blair is not that strong.
The school competes as a whole, as Blair. It's ranked as a whole school: Blair.
At least you admit no school in HoCo can compete with it.
Anonymous
12/05/2023 15:45
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Say what, now? Hahahaha.
What I said. No school in HoCo can even come close to compete with Blair.
Blair runs circles around them.
This may be true for the magnet portion of Blair, which is a small subset of Blair. But the regular in-bounds portion of Blair is not that strong.
Anonymous
12/05/2023 14:47
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Not true. But you continue to live in your MCPS 2.0 bubble where you think that you are still the best school district in the state.
We carry the state
Anonymous
12/05/2023 14:46
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Say what, now? Hahahaha.
What I said. No school in HoCo can even come close to compete with Blair.
Blair runs circles around them.
Anonymous
12/05/2023 12:20
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Not true. But you continue to live in your MCPS 2.0 bubble where you think that you are still the best school district in the state.
Anonymous
12/05/2023 12:04
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Say what, now? Hahahaha.
Anonymous
11/29/2023 14:15
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Nope. Very few HCPSS schools can match schools like BCC, RM, Northwest, QO etc...and none of them can even come close to compete with Blair.
Anonymous
11/28/2023 12:43
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Anonymous wrote:Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
And almost all of HCPSS schools are better than the rest of the MCPS schools.
MCPS may have the top handful, but the bulk of their schools are significantly weaker than the Tier 1 schools and also weaker than the majority of both HCPSS and AAPCS. There is a real disparity between the haves and the have-nots in MCPS. If you live in the wealthier southwestern part of the county, then you have great schools. If you live anywhere else, you get good but significantly weaker schools. In both HCPSS and AACPS you get a much better overall school district county-wide rather than really good schools for the affluent and privileged.
Anonymous
11/28/2023 06:24
Subject: Is Howard moving in the same direction as MCPS
Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Poolesville
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.
Better than all Howard Schools.
Publics are trash everywhere. Need to live in close in Montgomery for easy access to the most and best privates in the mid Atlantic.