Ouch.
We've been told by the Montgomery County political cartel that, while we don't enjoy the booming private sector economic growth of states like Texas, we should still feel superior because we "invest in our schools." Fact check: Montgomery County suffered a humiliating shut-out on the list, while red states like Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana cleaned our clock, with multiple public schools making the cut. In fact, 26 Texas schools in all made the 2016 list. Even a red county in Maryland like Anne Arundel has public school representation on the new list.
It turns out that the excess money spent on MCPS without a plan has been money down the toilet. Ironically, you can be almost certain that grades will rise in MCPS schools in the future - but only because the school system recently adopted an easier grading system for that very reason. Elected officials impotent to solve MoCo's education decline? No problem! Just get rid of final exams and inflate everybody's grades. God help us.
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P.S. Congratulations to Montgomery County's St. Patrick's parochial school, which made the 2016 list as a non-public school.
Is this "honor" viewed as something of a joke?
ReplyDeleteFrom the program's inception through 2003, schools were permitted to nominate themselves. As of 2003 nominations are handled through a state liaison which schools must contact for nomination.[12][13]
The program has also been criticized for assessment of schools coming from the school itself rather than an independent 3rd party and a nomination and assessment process that favors schools with the know-how and resources to complete the review assessment.[14]
Way to show how uneducated you are, Robert. Schools can only win a Blue Ribbon award once in any 5 year period. Of course MoCo's top schools don't win every year - that's, literally, impossible. Maybe stop blaming the County Council and, rather, blame your own ignorance of the process.
ReplyDelete8:15: I was on the Dean's List every semester in college, so I'm afraid the "uneducated" attack just bounces off. What's ignorant is to claim that all MCPS schools were ineligible for the competition this year. Yet no school made the list! Embarrassing.
DeleteI'm happy you went to college, but unless there was a course on the Blue Ribbon nomination process that doesn't affect how educated you are on this topic.
ReplyDelete4:46: If such a course is available, I would suggest you register. During the semester, you would learn that there were indeed MCPS schools that were eligible to apply for the Blue Ribbon list in 2016. Yet no MCPS school received the award. We were beat by the reddest of red states at our own "great public schools" game. It's no surprise - final exam scores tanking, achievement gap growing since 2010.
DeleteWe need a new superintendent, school board and County Council FAST.
#MoCoTermLimits
#ThrowTheBumsOut
Robert probably paid to be included in "Who's Who Among American High School Students" and considered it to be a big honor.
ReplyDeleteBrian, no, but I have won actual academic awards. Which is part of why I'm the only journalist in local media reporting that MCPS couldn't place a single school on the 2016 Blue Ribbon list. The others either couldn't intellectually grasp the significance of the humiliation (particularly in the context of the taxes and money spent on MCPS in recent years),, or because they are politically in the tank for the MoCo cartel.
DeleteI am with you Robert! This is shameful.
ReplyDeleteWe do need a new superintendent, new school board and new County Councilmembers FAST.
#MoCoTermLimits
#ThrowTheBumsOut