Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 15:21     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hate FCPS. Had a horrible experience - DC pulled though but by Middle went to private. DC is pitching for return to public. I just can't breath thinking about heading back there.... ugh.[/

DC was in FCPS and is now pitching to return, but you’re the one complaining?

One of the biggest difference in FCPS over the years is the number of high-maintenance parents. The academics are actually much better and there’s far more diversity. Just more Becky’s getting bent out of shape when their kids aren’t the absolute center of the universe.[/quote]


x100000

Nailed it. I am sure (??) that the overbearing parents are well meaning (??), if not self serving - but in reality, they make their own DC's life hell, in the long run.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 15:15     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hate FCPS. Had a horrible experience - DC pulled though but by Middle went to private. DC is pitching for return to public. I just can't breath thinking about heading back there.... ugh.[/

DC was in FCPS and is now pitching to return, but you’re the one complaining?

One of the biggest difference in FCPS over the years is the number of high-maintenance parents. The academics are actually much better and there’s far more diversity. Just more Becky’s getting bent out of shape when their kids aren’t the absolute center of the universe.

The Becky’s are the ones they don’t mind catering to. You’d didn’t know?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 15:12     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:Hate FCPS. Had a horrible experience - DC pulled though but by Middle went to private. DC is pitching for return to public. I just can't breath thinking about heading back there.... ugh.[/

DC was in FCPS and is now pitching to return, but you’re the one complaining?

One of the biggest difference in FCPS over the years is the number of high-maintenance parents. The academics are actually much better and there’s far more diversity. Just more Becky’s getting bent out of shape when their kids aren’t the absolute center of the universe.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 14:50     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:It maybe but still 1000x better than what MCPS is going thru. Going straight into a sh*t bucket.

How do you know this? Based on DCUM?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 14:41     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Hate FCPS. Had a horrible experience - DC pulled though but by Middle went to private. DC is pitching for return to public. I just can't breath thinking about heading back there.... ugh.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 14:26     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
It maybe but still 1000x better than what MCPS is going thru. Going straight into a sh*t bucket.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 14:20     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I spend a lot of time in different classrooms in different schools watching the system in action.

It's not that FCPS is in decline. It's that your kid has a cell phone, and you just cannot imagine how much that time and attention sink is hurting his/her education.
does

So why not have a no phone in classroom policy? If it is out, goes on teachers desk or sent to office. I never understood why it wasn’t a rule? We enforced from home by restricting as much as we could but as they got older we were told they also used in class. But once assignments over, rule should activate.


The over reliance on computers and cell phones in our schools needs to change. Phones should be banned. Assignments/assessments in elementary school should be on paper. Elementary students should not have to use computers at home or in class to complete work/look up assignments etc.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 13:55     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I spend a lot of time in different classrooms in different schools watching the system in action.

It's not that FCPS is in decline. It's that your kid has a cell phone, and you just cannot imagine how much that time and attention sink is hurting his/her education.
does

So why not have a no phone in classroom policy? If it is out, goes on teachers desk or sent to office. I never understood why it wasn’t a rule? We enforced from home by restricting as much as we could but as they got older we were told they also used in class. But once assignments over, rule should activate.


The over reliance on computers and cell phones in our schools needs to change. Phones should be banned. Assignments/assessments in elementary school be on paper. Elementary students should not have to use computers at home or in class to complete work/look up assignments etc.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 13:44     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers are trying so hard. It’s really disappointing to watch them struggle for backing from admin when parents have control like they do here. We all want an amazing education for our kids but a teacher calls home and it’s HER fault the kid is a jerk? Impossible.


I don't know. In our ES, there is no hesitation to call home, or send to the office, or speak to the principal. I remember when my kid was in lower ES. Received a call home and I'm thinking "wow this is going to be bad." No, no. It was to report child was playing with an article of clothing -shoestrings- and could you please send kid to school with shoes that lack shoe strings? It's distracting.

I mean, come on. If you can't handle a little kid touching shoestrings in circle time? Maybe you shouldn't be teaching first grade. These were new shoes so, no, that was not going to happen. I wasn't going to go buy new shoes with velcro, esp. when the point of shoe laces were to learn to tie them. We had a talk about distractions in school. But, no, that was ridiculous. And a number of other parents had similar interactions.

I'm not sure what school you work in where parents have all this control . . . but, I can tell you it is not ours.


OMG! Shoestrings? I taught first grade--this is typical behavior. The teacher could not tell him to please stop? Or, did he not know how to tie his shoes and she was tired of helping him?

Thinking back--I taught a little boy who was always playing with something else--let's just say, something that was REALLY inappropriate and that one could not leave at home. I was constantly trying to distract him with something else, but he was pretty attached to the activity. I must admit that I deferred to the counselor to speak with the parents--I was very young and uncomfortable with it. But, shoestrings? I think I could have handled that.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 12:57     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
"MFCPSGA!!!" ?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 12:22     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:Teachers are trying so hard. It’s really disappointing to watch them struggle for backing from admin when parents have control like they do here. We all want an amazing education for our kids but a teacher calls home and it’s HER fault the kid is a jerk? Impossible.


I don't know. In our ES, there is no hesitation to call home, or send to the office, or speak to the principal. I remember when my kid was in lower ES. Received a call home and I'm thinking "wow this is going to be bad." No, no. It was to report child was playing with an article of clothing -shoestrings- and could you please send kid to school with shoes that lack shoe strings? It's distracting.

I mean, come on. If you can't handle a little kid touching shoestrings in circle time? Maybe you shouldn't be teaching first grade. These were new shoes so, no, that was not going to happen. I wasn't going to go buy new shoes with velcro, esp. when the point of shoe laces were to learn to tie them. We had a talk about distractions in school. But, no, that was ridiculous. And a number of other parents had similar interactions.

I'm not sure what school you work in where parents have all this control . . . but, I can tell you it is not ours.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 12:14     Subject: Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Teachers are trying so hard. It’s really disappointing to watch them struggle for backing from admin when parents have control like they do here. We all want an amazing education for our kids but a teacher calls home and it’s HER fault the kid is a jerk? Impossible.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 11:54     Subject: Re:Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
I taught many years ago in a Title I school. Maybe things have changed, but the behavior of the kids I taught left an awful lot to be desired. These were young children who constantly fought with each other. Most of them lived in projects and knew one another at home, as well. It was common to walk by another kid and swat him. Then, there would be a reaction......

The kids were sweet at heart, but it was a very difficult learning environment. Fighting was like drinking water to them.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 10:38     Subject: Re:Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:I've taught in a Title One school and a school in a very wealthy area. The wealthy kids had worse behavior, hands down. They were sassy, rude and ignored many staff members. Many of them flat out refused to clean up messes they made. Some of them were very entitled and once you met their parents, it all made sense. My "poor" kids have much better behavior. They enter school much further behind but they know how to behave.


Are you talking about elementary school kids? At our high SES high school the teachers almost always tell the parents how well behaved and eager to learn the kids are, and teachers who’ve taught at schools with a lot of poverty often mention what a big difference they’ve noticed in terms of kids paying attention and wanting to learn. I think the disadvantages of poverty and families with limited academic backgrounds tend to manifest themselves over the longer run.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 10:13     Subject: Re:Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!
Anonymous wrote:It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

Example: the little girl who died as a result of a fight with another schoolgirl in SC. The teachers had been told not to physically break up fights, because they might hurt a child.
All the videos of teachers trying to restrain children condemn the teacher. We never get the backstory. Example: the teacher dragging a kid down a hall--we are never told why. We just condemn the teacher--which may be justified, or there may be another reason. Having been there, a kid might be flailing around and kicking other kids--but, on the news, it is always the teachers' fault.

I'm not saying there are not egregious situations, but some of the stories I am hearing from a friend who teaches are pretty bad.



Don’t forget FCPS and how much they love ‘restorative justive’. If someone physically assaults your child, don’t worry! the administrators will take the abuser for a walk and give them ice cream to calm them down.