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Anonymous wrote:It is the school's fault. What happened in the elementary years. Are you saying they just showed up in 9th grade?

Ah, so it wasn't the ninth-grade teacher's fault, it's the fault of the kindergarten teacher, the first-grade teacher, the second-grade teacher...?

Yes, it is. Who do you blame? Not all parents have time to sit down and teach the kids. They are in school for 6hrs every day for 9 years prior to you. They should have learned something with all those great MCPS teachers, correct?

You must realize (b/c you have a college degree, I'm sure ) that you can't move a RIT score up from a 191 to a 231 in a fucking semester, yes?

Go to hell.

Truth stings, doesn't it?

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Anonymous wrote:Why should any one care which school any student goes to. If you want to do apples to apples comparison then here's what you can do -

AP classes - how many, which ones, and AP scores

SAT/ACT scores.

That's all the comparison I need.

Test scores are almost completely related to wealth of the community not school quality.

Which shows how crappy MCPS is at teaching unless you have tutors, parents teaching a home, test prep classes etc....

The majority of my 9th graders in on level classes read anywhere from a 1st to 4th grade level.

What miracle should I perform to get all 29 of the kids (per class) to reach proficiency level by June?

b/c it's my fault, no?

No, it sounds like it is the border patrol's fault

Our school did hire a 1.0 ESOL teacher about 2 weeks ago to handle our border babies. illiterate in their own language - But they do sit down and smile quite a bit . . . poor things

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Anonymous wrote:It is the school's fault. What happened in the elementary years. Are you saying they just showed up in 9th grade?

Ah, so it wasn't the ninth-grade teacher's fault, it's the fault of the kindergarten teacher, the first-grade teacher, the second-grade teacher...?

Yes, it is. Who do you blame? Not all parents have time to sit down and teach the kids. They are in school for 6hrs every day for 9 years prior to you. They should have learned something with all those great MCPS teachers, correct?

You must realize (b/c you have a college degree, I'm sure ) that you can't move a RIT score up from a 191 to a 231 in a fucking semester, yes?

Go to hell.

Anonymous wrote:It is the school's fault. What happened in the elementary years. Are you saying they just showed up in 9th grade?

I'm not blaming my elementary colleagues either, idiot.

I have a friend who's a counselor in my cluster. She is on the run more than a hockey player - restraining kids who are hitters, chasing after runners. Many of the kids they get (who eventually come to us) are troubled. They are neglected and abused. You can't TEACH a child who isn't emotionally ready.

I love how everyone is an expert.

I don't blame anyone but the parents.

Anonymous wrote:Churchill. The only good cluster other than Whitman.

"Good" meaning white, in many of this thread's posters' vaguely racist opinion.