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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ridiculous.

Just visited my son's 1st grade class yesterday.

A lot of children (like mine) know the stuff already and act out because they are bored. 
Some children struggle to master content because they get distracted by the kids who are bored. 
And the poor teacher (who is a good teacher and I like her) can't differentiate the curriculum adequately, with 27 kids in the class plus an aide in the morning.

I wanted to like the public school system so much! We are in Bethesda, a 3 minute walk from the ES.

But regretfully it is not working for my son. He is wasting his time 100%.[/quote]
Just out of curiousity, what is your child doing in math?[/quote]

Today he went home with pairs of numbers for which he had written the signs for "greater than" or "less than". As in 17<53... Homework was breaking down single digits like 7 into 2+5, or 3+4... Gaaah! He could have done this 2 years ago. It's insane.

To clarify, I don't have much of a problem with the curriculum, although it could definitely be way more challenging (I went to school in France and the UK, and experienced much more rigorous content). 
I do have a problem with the seemingly purposeful brakes to acceleration and differentiation put in place with 2.0. I talked to the teacher at the beginning of term, knowing this would be problem, but there are limits to what she can do.[/quote]
14:08 here. Interesting.  But I'm not convinced that it is the fault of Curriculum 2.0 versus the school.  My daughter is also in first grade and her math homework tonight was to chose a 2 digit number.  She had to come up with different numbers to put together to come up with 42.  Same concept as your son's except my DD was doing it with 2 digit numbers and your son was doing it with 1 digit numbers.

So what is the difference?  Why is one 1st grade class doing 1 digit numbers and another 1st grade class doing 2 digit numbers?  Again...I don't see how it's Curriculum 2.0's fault.

Tomorrow's math homework are 4 word problems that seem to be algebraic in nature.  [/quote]

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