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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened to MCPS in the last 15 years? I am genuinely curious about all the negativity and pessimism on this board.

Some background I graduated from MCPS almost 20 years ago. I'm from a very middle class immigrant family. Started off in MCPS not knowing any English back in elementary school and through the help of many great teachers along the way I ended up graduating from the RM IB program and attended a top 10 University without much parental guidance or any extra tutoring and etc.

I always raved about the education I recieved from MCPS and felt like I was very prepared at a rigorous college with many kids from prep schools. I truly felt lucky about the education I received especially after hearing about other public schools from people I met in college (no AP offering, no music programs, ...) Now my baby sister is in elementary school and I happened upon this forum. Baby sister is in 4th grade at a Wootton feeder school and so far reported back that she likes school. Her teacher seems very dedicated though a bit overworked and she's been enjoying the free instrumental music lessons offered and looks forward to joining the 5th grade chorus next year.

So what's changed since or has the forum always been this dramatic?[/quote]

Well there was curriculum 2.0. You probably were in accelerated math. They eliminated that for awhile then brought it back.  That plus lots of overcrowding in some of the schools. But mostly it’s fine. DCUM is an echo chamber, that’s all.[/quote]

My sister is in compact math 4/5 and her school only has one section of that so the class is white crowded at 35 kids unfortunately. How different is it? I looked at the tracks and it seems like she's still going to take IM7 in 6th grade, algebra I in 7th and so on - that lines up with what I did back in the days with Math B in 5th grade.

I took a look through her math homework and I'm not a huge fan of the convoluted way they are teaching long division but my sister says it makes sense to her and she can do long division now. I figure it's just birds of a feather and the quirky methods taught are going to fade out on their own once the kids hit algebra and all that.
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They eventually learn to do division the old fashioned way. My kids are now in 9th and 6th, 9th grader is at RMIB. He seems to like it so far, except for the HW load LOL[/quote]

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