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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

I am a former GHS staff member. I am glad to no longer work there. The Admin I worked with was abysmal.

Look at either RM or Rockville, and you’ll change your mind.

RM and Rockville are way different from each other according to my kid. He spent his freshman and sophomore year at Rockville and then we decided to move to RM for his junior and senior year, he liked RM a bit more.

What went wrong at Rockville? My kids graduated there a few years ago and we had no problems aside from the problematic admin and principal, but it was still an enjoyable school.

My eldest son was facing bullying problems at RHS during his freshman and sophomore years at high school, and it was already a negative experience.

I won’t make it too long, but around the month before summer break at his 10th grade year, he wanted to tell me about the problems he was facing. Once I heard about it, I had to contact admin and principal at the time about the situation, but guess what? No one responded, and no one seemed to take action of what was going on.

I was absolutely angered by what they said and called it complete BS. I thought by around then we would relocate to another school close to us (RM) and he liked it. It’s a big school but he was able to get along with a whole new group of peers there.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

I am a former GHS staff member. I am glad to no longer work there. The Admin I worked with was abysmal.

Look at either RM or Rockville, and you’ll change your mind.

RM and Rockville are way different from each other according to my kid. He spent his freshman and sophomore year at Rockville and then we decided to move to RM for his junior and senior year, he liked RM a bit more.

What went wrong at Rockville? My kids graduated there a few years ago and we had no problems aside from the problematic admin and principal, but it was still an enjoyable school.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

I am a former GHS staff member. I am glad to no longer work there. The Admin I worked with was abysmal.

Look at either RM or Rockville, and you’ll change your mind.

RM and Rockville are way different from each other according to my kid. He spent his freshman and sophomore year at Rockville and then we decided to move to RM for his junior and senior year, he liked RM a bit more.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

I am a former GHS staff member. I am glad to no longer work there. The Admin I worked with was abysmal.

Look at either RM or Rockville, and you’ll change your mind.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

I am a former GHS staff member. I am glad to no longer work there. The Admin I worked with was abysmal.

Look at either RM or Rockville, and you’ll change your mind.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

I am a former GHS staff member. I am glad to no longer work there. The Admin I worked with was abysmal.

Look at either RM or Rockville, and you’ll change your mind.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

I am a former GHS staff member. I am glad to no longer work there. The Admin I worked with was abysmal.

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Anonymous wrote:While increasing graduation rates is generally a positive trend, I can’t help but wonder how much of this rise is tied to the online credit recovery program many MCPS students use to make up failed courses.

For those unfamiliar, Edmentum allows students to recover credits in a relatively short amount of time. In my experience, many students do the bare minimum to pass, and answer keys are widely available on third-party websites. Actually pretty surprised there hasn't been a ton of reporting on the program, it's such a hack. This raises the question: Are we truly ensuring students have mastered the material, or are we just pushing them through to graduation...?

Does anyone know if MCPS has data on how Edmentum has impacted graduation rates? From my perspective (MCPS high school teacher), it seems like a major factor in the increase, but I’d be curious to see if the district has examined this more closely (though I'm sure we all can guess, the fix is in).

I agree with this. The way MCPS uses Edmentum is pretty shocking and should not be allowed. We have many students who never go to class and unfortunately have minimal educational skills (elementary school level). Our school has them sometimes do 7-8 courses on Edmentum to replace failed classes. The students do about an hour a day max with support for about 2 weeks and miraculously they get a full year’s credit for the class. And on their transcript, it shows up as the student having taken a full year of Biology or Chemistry or Spanish with no mention that it was a 2 week Edmentum online class rather than the actual in person school class that most students take.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…

Same with me, I have a friend who teaches at Gaithersburg High and we’ve been pretty happy on how the school is at least somehow improving. We expect it to be better with the new principal and for the remainder of the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:Watkins Mill being at 92 percent really confuses me so much. They are doing it too easy for the students there.

I have a close friend who teaches there. Morale and climate are pretty good. They’ve never mentioned pressure to inflate grades. Just saying…