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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're considering moving school districts to go to a better school based on the four years of observation that we've spent in this one. As I mentioned above, it's not just the lack of homework for the past 4 years but what appears to be a lack of teaching any kind of valuable subject matter. We get weekly teacher updates, as I'm sure all parents do, and the material and subject matter has not changed since late 1st grade. The worksheets that come home are proof of that. Child complains that math is boring and the class appears to be at simple addition/subtraction from previous grades and rounding numbers. While I recognize that they're still young at this age, I would've hoped for signs of advancement. They play a lot of computer games, which in moderation is fine, but it seems to be in lieu of actual teaching. The no-homework model appears to reflect the lack of learning.

We've been at this school 4 years. I have two younger children so our thought is to move to a better school system, which we had hoped to do by high school. It appears that we'll  be  speeding that move up by a few years.

And while I'd love to send my kids to private schools, the $30K per kid annually is not doable. [/quote]

This is exactly what we get in MCPS.  EXCEPT we don't get any teacher updates and have no idea what is going on.  We get a worksheet back here and there but it is mostly kept secret in composition books.  They aren't doing anything more in our MCPS.  Lots of computer games.[/quote]

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