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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pre-pandemic I would have said that is not normal. When I was in MCPS, we had labs in middle school science classes. I have no idea what the children normally do in middle school science these days with regard to labs.[/quote]

Are you a parent? MCPS is completely different than when you were a kid. Even pre-pandemic MS and HS science labs were scaled back a lot from when we were kids. I think a PP has hit the nail on the head that it is related to very large class sizes and budget restrictions (our science teachers told us they didn't have enough budget for lab materials). In my kid's MS the PTA provided money for lab materials but some teachers used the extra money and some didn't. Very frustrating.[/quote]

I am a parent.

I think we dissected worms in middle school and then graduated to dissecting frogs in 9th grade bio. The frequency and intensity of labs definitely scaled up from middle school,  but back in the '90s, we still did some labs at the middle school level. Mainly learning how to use bunsen burners, familiarizing ourselves with lab equipment, etc.

The fact that doing actually lab science is no longer the norm is sad. It also goes along with kids no longer doing actual physical education in PE class either. MCPS is a disaster.[/quote]

I'm actually happy to hear that middle school and high school biology classes are no longer doing dissections.[/quote]

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