Middle School and C2.0

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Anonymous wrote:I assume that all of the classes in MCPS will change to reflect the Common Core. I don't know if MCPS is going to call everything 2.0, though.

It is strange that very little attention has been given to how the Common Core will affect middle school or high school for that matter.

Our HS English guides have already been rewritten to reflect CC standards. But that's always been the case. They usually rewrite the guides to reflect testing, and first 9th and now 10th are the testing years.

Why is there so little attention being given to this. Most of the posts on the board are about elementary school. I don't know enough about CC to know whether the changes are for the better but I would like to hear more from parents and/or teachers who are going through this right now.

If you are looking for solid information, talk to people IRL, research and read articles from trusted sources.
All you will get from this board is nut ball ravings good for comic relief, not info!

Like I said, ask people in real life.



The reason you are hearing about this from elementary school parents is B/C the roll out is starting in elementary schools! These are the parents who, in real life, are observing what is happening and, in many, many cases are very upset. Yes, you could say "nut ball ravings" and I get that it looks like that sometimes. But, you must understand that as we watch this curriculum be tested on our children in 3rd, 4th, 5th grade, we have seen just how bad it is. We have the luxury of knowing that "it's only elementary school" but middle and high school parents won't have that luxury when it comes around. So, mock if you will. Or, perhaps you might want to think that we are just like you: parents who want the best education for our kids and who have seen that the old system, while imperfect, was far better than this "one-size-fits-all/everyone is proficient/report cards are hide the ball and meaningless" that is being forced on us and on our kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD is in Algebra I, Common Core, in 7th grade, and I'm noticing that she does much better on the teacher-created tests than she does on the county tests. That worries me.

+1000 - I have noticed the same issue of my child doing well on teacher-created tests but having difficulty on the county tests (unit/formative/exams). However, my child is now in high school and this trend was occurring long before the Common Core. I see this problem across all curriculum areas but there is 5 years of data of students having difficulty on county math exams:

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/FiveYearHistoryDistrictwide.pdf

My child has always done better on the county tests. Even said they are easy.

[Anonymous]

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The reason you are hearing about this from elementary school parents is B/C the roll out is starting in elementary schools! These are the parents who, in real life, are observing what is happening and, in many, many cases are very upset. Yes, you could say "nut ball ravings" and I get that it looks like that sometimes. But, you must understand that as we watch this curriculum be tested on our children in 3rd, 4th, 5th grade, we have seen just how bad it is. We have the luxury of knowing that "it's only elementary school" but middle and high school parents won't have that luxury when it comes around. So, mock if you will. Or, perhaps you might want to think that we are just like you: parents who want the best education for our kids and who have seen that the old system, while imperfect, was far better than this "one-size-fits-all/everyone is proficient/report cards are hide the ball and meaningless" that is being forced on us and on our kids.

The reason you are hearing about this from elementary school parents is because

1. "Math Pathways" ended, and
2. the report card changed.

(Both of which are MCPS decisions, not Common Core requirements.) If MCPS has redone the elementary school curriculum to reflect the Common Core, without making those two changes, parents would never even have noticed.

Now, "Math Pathways" was on its way out anyway, because the evidence was clear that lots and lots of kids were getting overaccelerated.

And the main effect of the report card change is that third, fourth, and fifth grades no longer get letter grades. Many people on DCUM see this as a DISASTER!!!!!!!! I don't.