Curriculum 2.0 was discriminatory, MCPS should make amends to the students harmed

[Anonymous]

The JHU report found that the gaps , numerous errors and overall poor construction of 2.0 disproportionately effected lower income, low performing students. In MCPS these students correlate with URM students.

What is MCPS doing to go back and help those students that are robbed of a solid educational foundation? Why is no one in MCPS doing anything to correct the mistake that they created for the students actually harmed?Acquiring a new curriculum and getting rid of the staff that created 2.0 will help future students but will not do anything for students that went through 2.0 and are worse off for doing so.

There should be a task force to figure out how to go back and help these students. MCPS should be held accountable for creating a discriminatory curriculum (whether this was the intent or not).

[Anonymous]

Think of all the students who suffered. That is probably everyone. They won’t do anything and we know it.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Lots of things in life could be better in hindsight... I think someone would have to prove that MCPS intentionally harmed one class of students.

[Anonymous]

Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are not a troll trying to stir things up, OP what do you think could or should be done?

People can't go back and redo their school age years. One time payment? If so, how much and how do you decide who was eligible, both in terms of who was hurt by the curriculum and how many years of the curriculum did you have to have to be considered hurt? Payment to get some form of additional schooling? Reduced entrance requirements and/or tuition to Montgomery College?

What do you have in mind?

[Anonymous]

JHU already found evidence and included in their report that the faulty curriculum hurt disadvantaged URM students substantially more than wealthy white and asian students. For all the lip service paid for racial equity, keeping in place a curriculum (for 7 years!) that resulted in the widespread failures and inability to access education for lower income AA and hispanic youth is institutional racism whether it was the developers intent or simply incompetence.

MCPS should be forced to make a one time payment to every student who is part of the SES demographic that was hurt more by the MCPS failed curriculum. The students deserve damages and the award should be punitive to send a strong message to MCPS and other school systems. There should be a public finding or statement of apology to all students but more so to the students who were hurt more.

In addition each student who failed under 2.0 -which is primarily URM students should be offered free after school and summer catch up services and two years of free Montgomery College. Its criminal to say just move on while leaving the kids that you harmed behind to suffer the consequences of your action.

[Anonymous]

Public school students are guinea pigs. That’s a fact. Sometimes the experiments work better than others. They have a lot of nerve passing the blame onto everyone but themselves. Teachers deserve an apology especially since they are the ones who said the curriculum sucked from the beginning.

[Anonymous]

I want reparations! My DD has to suffer through 2.0 from day one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are not a troll trying to stir things up, OP what do you think could or should be done?

People can't go back and redo their school age years. One time payment? If so, how much and how do you decide who was eligible, both in terms of who was hurt by the curriculum and how many years of the curriculum did you have to have to be considered hurt? Payment to get some form of additional schooling? Reduced entrance requirements and/or tuition to Montgomery College?

What do you have in mind?

This is pretty clearly a troll.

[Anonymous]

Public school students are guinea pigs. That’s a fact. Sometimes the experiments work better than others. They have a lot of nerve passing the blame onto everyone but themselves. Teachers deserve an apology especially since they are the ones who said the curriculum sucked from the beginning.

Public schools have a responsibility not to further institutional racism.

By not listening to the teachers or putting in place any quality control, MCPS hurt the most disadvantaged and vulnerable students and continued hurting them for seven years.

[Anonymous]

Could you link to where JHU concluded this? Curriculum 2.0 was basically an early version of Common Core. The curriculum itself was not discriminatory. All I can imagine is that you are saying that the way it was rolled out made it ineffective especially for more at-risk kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Public school students are guinea pigs. That’s a fact. Sometimes the experiments work better than others. They have a lot of nerve passing the blame onto everyone but themselves. Teachers deserve an apology especially since they are the ones who said the curriculum sucked from the beginning.

Public schools have a responsibility not to further institutional racism.

By not listening to the teachers or putting in place any quality control, MCPS hurt the most disadvantaged and vulnerable students and continued hurting them for seven years.

I work in a focus school. The curriculum was/is terrible for our population. We pretty much had to revamp everything using our own time and money once we realized it was terrible (which was very quickly). MCPS didn't listen to us at all. They just kept spinning it like we were doing something wrong. It is infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could you link to where JHU concluded this? Curriculum 2.0 was basically an early version of Common Core. The curriculum itself was not discriminatory. All I can imagine is that you are saying that the way it was rolled out made it ineffective especially for more at-risk kids.

No. The curriculum was written assuming that kids had lots of background knowledge, and every new concept being taught assumed that kids had this background knowledge. Teachers in high FARMS schools had to backtrack 5 or 6 steps to get students to understand what was being introduced. It wasn't an issue in more affluent schools because the kids had the background knowledge, but in the less affluent schools it took a lot of time and kids didn't get what they were intended to get out of the curriculum. I remember teaching a 3rd grade quarter one social studies lesson that was supposed to be about the foundations of democracy in the Roman Republic and my students didn't even have even the basic understanding of government. They also didn't know the geography related to being able to figure out who would be the leaders of countries vs. states vs. cities. That would be explored in quarter two. Makes all the sense in the world, right? .

[Anonymous]

Haven't you heard? They're going to send us a bunch of rich kids, because, as everyone knows, poor kids learn by osmosis. Being in the presence of the well-tutored crowd will fix everything. Just wait and see the improvement in our school's test scores! (Not your kid's test scores of course, but the school as a whole.) Problem solved, and with virtually no need for BOE to think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are not a troll trying to stir things up, OP what do you think could or should be done?

People can't go back and redo their school age years. One time payment? If so, how much and how do you decide who was eligible, both in terms of who was hurt by the curriculum and how many years of the curriculum did you have to have to be considered hurt? Payment to get some form of additional schooling? Reduced entrance requirements and/or tuition to Montgomery College?

What do you have in mind?

I have no doubt it's a troll who is trying to stir things up.