New curriculum selection process delayed— new RFP must be issues now

[Anonymous]

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I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

You must be new to MCPS.

Nope. I've got a kid in HS and a kid in MS. The only huge gap I've encountered was under the old math curriculum, when they skipped my older kid over two years of math, so the kid couldn't do long division.

So you don’t feel curriculum 2.0 is producing gaps in your kids’ educations?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

You must be new to MCPS.

Nope. I've got a kid in HS and a kid in MS. The only huge gap I've encountered was under the old math curriculum, when they skipped my older kid over two years of math, so the kid couldn't do long division.

So you don’t feel curriculum 2.0 is producing gaps in your kids’ educations?

No, I do not think that Curriculum 2.0 is producing gaps in my kids' educations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

You must be new to MCPS.

Nope. I've got a kid in HS and a kid in MS. The only huge gap I've encountered was under the old math curriculum, when they skipped my older kid over two years of math, so the kid couldn't do long division.

So you don’t feel curriculum 2.0 is producing gaps in your kids’ educations?

No, I do not think that Curriculum 2.0 is producing gaps in my kids' educations.

Then I presume you don’t agree with with the audit?

[Anonymous]

Algebra 2.0 was so unorganized when it wax first introduced that it teachers were completely confused by the order of the lessons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

You must be new to MCPS.

Nope. I've got a kid in HS and a kid in MS. The only huge gap I've encountered was under the old math curriculum, when they skipped my older kid over two years of math, so the kid couldn't do long division.

So you don’t feel curriculum 2.0 is producing gaps in your kids’ educations?

No, I do not think that Curriculum 2.0 is producing gaps in my kids' educations.

Then I presume you don’t agree with with the audit?

What the audit said: There are problems with Curriculum 2.0.

What the audit didn't say: OMG Curriculum 2.0 is the worst.curriculum.ever. and every child in school with Curriculum 2.0 is doomed to ignorance for life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Algebra 2.0 was so unorganized when it wax first introduced that it teachers were completely confused by the order of the lessons.

That was 5 years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

You must be new to MCPS.

Nope. I've got a kid in HS and a kid in MS. The only huge gap I've encountered was under the old math curriculum, when they skipped my older kid over two years of math, so the kid couldn't do long division.

This was my kid too. Went from 2nd grade math to 4th to 6th. Then repeated 6th. Never got long division. Oh the good old days! Nonetheless he is in AP Math now and ok.

[Anonymous]

My kid is in 5th grade and can’t do long division! What is up with that? We just realized it because we were asking him something.

Will teach him this summer, but now I want to know what else he can’t do!

[Anonymous]

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I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

Grammar has been a huge gap for us. Not any solid instruction on punctuation, verb tense usage, etc. I find that to be a pretty huge gap!

[Anonymous]

Just teach your kids long division and grammar. Stop expecting school to do your job for you.







Just kidding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

You must be new to MCPS.

Nope. I've got a kid in HS and a kid in MS. The only huge gap I've encountered was under the old math curriculum, when they skipped my older kid over two years of math, so the kid couldn't do long division.

This was my kid too. Went from 2nd grade math to 4th to 6th. Then repeated 6th. Never got long division. Oh the good old days! Nonetheless he is in AP Math now and ok.

My youngest is pretty much 2.0 native and not much for long division. He may understand how it works but never had much reinforcement in school. When confronted with division, his preferred method is to feel his way through, only he makes an error some 20 percent of the time. I tell him, picking up a pencil would be quicker and more reliable, but nope. And, I did push long division practice summer after 4th. My impression is 2.0, never settles into a *best* method and doesn't really revisit long division later since calculators are encouraged as soon as the unit is over.

I don't know who thinks Algebra has improved since the rollout year. My oldest was in that year and three years later not much had changed when next DC arrived. I don't hear enough talk about replacing the HS sequence, but current MCPS Alg 1, Geometry and Alg 2 are all a cursory hodgepodge of half baked concepts with no texts as back up. It's too late for my family, but there's plenty of room for improvement. I didn't see pre-2.0 HS math, maybe it was just as bad, but if 2.0 was supposed to fix something it did not.

[Anonymous]

Well said. I had 3 children go through 2.0 all with varying success. My children who could pick up math concepts quickly did relatively well. My DS who needed more practice struggled unless he had an experienced teacher who knew how to reinforce certain skills that were missing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

Grammar has been a huge gap for us. Not any solid instruction on punctuation, verb tense usage, etc. I find that to be a pretty huge gap!

This is anecdotal, but I never learned grammar either (Midwest). My mom had to teach me the basics. I went on my law school Law Review and had to study grammar like I was in grade school.

It's pervasive.

[Anonymous]

So when is the RFP going to be issued? I can't even find Maria Navarro's email on the MCPS site to ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education.

What huge gaps?

Grammar has been a huge gap for us. Not any solid instruction on punctuation, verb tense usage, etc. I find that to be a pretty huge gap!

This is anecdotal, but I never learned grammar either (Midwest). My mom had to teach me the basics. I went on my law school Law Review and had to study grammar like I was in grade school.

It's pervasive.

best way to learn it is through lots of reading..