[RP TownTalk] PG Schools

[Nina Faye]

If it makes anyone feel any better, my single parent daughter with her two boys live in Montgomery County, and we have had constant battles with those schools since they moved to the area in 2001.  Her eldest has a 504 plan that has been ignored through middle and high school, unless we are in the schools, on the phone, or e-mailing all the time.  It just took a month to get one class switched.  He flunked the first semester of honors/AP chemistry.  We had to insist to his Counselor multiple times over a month plus period that he needed to be switched to a regular class which was available in the same time slot.  We have been to any number of meetings with counselor, teachers, even principal, when it occurred to none of them to even bring a copy of his grades.  We won't even discuss the number of teachers the guys have had who do not have a firm grasp of written English or programming/computer teachers who don't answer e-mail.  Sorry for the first thing in the morning rant.
  I just wanted to let people know that Montgomery County schools have lots of faults as well.  Nina 

Susan Lewis <medicinewoman56 at comcast.net> wrote:  
It's true, Dwight. My son is a certified teacher - High School Social
Studies and a certified coach. That is an attractive package for any school
system. My son will not even look at openings in PG for ALL of those
reasons. 

My daughter transitioned to Parkdale this year. What a disaster. Up to and
including the School Board I got nowhere. I won't get into details in this
forum, but she is now in Buffalo, NY, with family, getting a good solid
education that will prepare her for a future that includes success. It was
a tough decision, but as a parent I found that working with the system here
wasn't working.

It's a broken system and it needs to be fixed. Do I have the answers?
Nope. But somebody should. 

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