"Maryland schools rank No. 1 for fifth year in a row"

[buzzthefuzz]

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It looks like there is some great news to report about education and schools here in Maryland for a change.

Octoburn, I just talked to a retired teacher who got so fed up she left.

She said they had to read the test to certain students before they took it and the teachers were not allowed to take off for grammar or spelling.

Recently on the news businessmen were complaining about the lack of knowledge college graduates have and how they were unprepared for the tasks at hand.

Much of the criteria is based on the amount of sending on the students.

Go to some of the social sites and read the responses of young people. What ever happened to grammar skills?

One of my neighbors children, an honor student failed their driving test four or five times before they passed.

It's like watching Jay Leno's bit regarding the people he encounters on the street especially the college crowd.

Take a look at the U.S. world rankings in math and science. We rank around 25th in the world. Not good!

[pmore108]

Whoa, there fella. Not to interject some sports trivia, BUT, a few qualifiers are in order :

- Not for girls. That would be Severna Park (use to be Mt Hebron) - hands down.
- Hereford competes at the lower 3A/2A calssification, and have dominated in this classification, but it's foolish to believe they would dominate at the more competitive (and deeper) 4A/3A classification, where Severna Park, South River, Dulaney and Liganore have all won recent state championships. Look at what public school programs get the lions share of D1 lax offers....that's right, the vast majority come from 4A/3A.

I was speaking of men's lacrosse, I should have clarified that. However, Hereford has won five state championships in a row. In additon, since 2009, they have dominated Dulaney in pretty convincing fashion, own a win over Severna Park (albeit a close one, 6-4) in their only matchup since 2009, beat South River by 5 and by 7 (2011 and 2010), and beat Glenelg (another quality public program) by 5 in last year's state championship. They also beat an MIAA 'A' team (albeit a bad St. Pauls who was 3-15) which is rare for the public schools. I will admit on that last point that South River could have beaten St. Paul's last year as well.

As far as players produced at the D1 level I believe you will start to see their numbers increase as I believe they have 3-4 kids at towson or who will be attending towson, one at UMCP and others likely to follow (their goalie, a stud, from last year I think was a sophomore, not sure). There is no doubt that SP and Dulaney have both produced some awesome talent over the years but it is my opinion that Hereford is the premier public school team in the state (although last year South River could have beaten them for sure on any given day) over the last five years.

Lax power links to schedules, results, etc. can be seen here:

http://www.laxpower.com/update11/binboy/XHERMD.PHP

[Marshan Man]

Octoburn, I just talked to a retired teacher who got so fed up she left.

She said they had to read the test to certain students before they took it and the teachers were not allowed to take off for grammar or spelling.

Recently on the news businessmen were complaining about the lack of knowledge college graduates have and how they were unprepared for the tasks at hand.

Much of the criteria is based on the amount of sending on the students.

Go to some of the social sites and read the responses of young people. What ever happened to grammar skills?

One of my neighbors children, an honor student failed their driving test four or five times before they passed.

It's like watching Jay Leno's bit regarding the people he encounters on the street especially the college crowd.

Take a look at the U.S. world rankings in math and science. We rank around 25th in the world. Not good!

Sweet irony...

[musicmd]

Octoburn, I just talked to a retired teacher who got so fed up she left.

She said they had to read the test to certain students before they took it and the teachers were not allowed to take off for grammar or spelling.

Recently on the news businessmen were complaining about the lack of knowledge college graduates have and how they were unprepared for the tasks at hand.

Much of the criteria is based on the amount of sending on the students.

Go to some of the social sites and read the responses of young people. What ever happened to grammar skills?

One of my neighbors children, an honor student failed their driving test four or five times before they passed.

It's like watching Jay Leno's bit regarding the people he encounters on the street especially the college crowd.

Take a look at the U.S. world rankings in math and science. We rank around 25th in the world. Not good!

But can you provide some proof, either your are lying or the retired teacher . Maybe she has Alzheimer Disease. Just most second hand BS

[demopublican]

Hereford has become one of the better schools in the state in the last few years. You can venture to any school in the country and find tragedy/problems happening. Also, if you are going to make a narrow minded statement like, " if you like football or John Deere you are at home" you should replace football with lacrosse as their lacrosse team has become the best public school team in the state over the last five years.

OK, Lacrosse and International Harvester.

[rgh]

A kids education is a result of the emphasis their parents put on education. Maryland has one of the most successful economies in the nation and if someone took time to do research (I haven't) we probably have some of the most educated professionals. Therefore our kids are also educated. But as a former teacher I can say the standards and expectations are much lower than when I was in school.

[boink]

Octoburn, I just talked to a retired teacher who got so fed up she left.

She said they had to read the test to certain students before they took it and the teachers were not allowed to take off for grammar or spelling.

Recently on the news businessmen were complaining about the lack of knowledge college graduates have and how they were unprepared for the tasks at hand.

Much of the criteria is based on the amount of sending on the students.

Go to some of the social sites and read the responses of young people. What ever happened to grammar skills?

One of my neighbors children, an honor student failed their driving test four or five times before they passed.

It's like watching Jay Leno's bit regarding the people he encounters on the street especially the college crowd.

Take a look at the U.S. world rankings in math and science. We rank around 25th in the world. Not good!

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/201...munity-college

Maryland's uneducated high school graduates
Too many Maryland students require remedial education at the community college, or even four-year college, level

May 10, 2011|By Marta H. Mossburg

...At the Community College of Baltimore County, 74 percent of incoming students need some type of remedial help. At Montgomery College, 65 percent to 70 percent of recent high school graduates and about 40 percent of new adult students need some developmental education when they start. About 54 percent of all math classes offered at the state's largest community college are remedial...

...Evidence from the state's flagship school is bleak as well. Jerome Dancis, associate math professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, counted 22 sections of remedial math in the fall of 2009. He also counted 33 sections of college credit pre-calculus and algebra, which used to be considered high school subjects.

Worse, his research shows knowledge of basic math for students of all ethnic groups in Maryland has been dropping over the past decade...