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[quote=Anonymous]Silly OP. You should know this is not about poor little you.

Public education in the USA drains a huge amount of resources but accomplishes relatively little, compared to other developed nations' educational systems.

Montgomery County's public schools are better than the US average. 
However, it is disappointing, considering this is such an affluent and educated County, that the best they can come up with is 2.0.
Before 2.0, the curriculum was not up to the standard of most developed European and Asian countries. Acceleration was sometimes given to students without fully monitoring their comprehension of the material, or lack thereof. Some students had gaps in their learning or ended up not fully assimilating concepts.
With 2.0, the curriculum has been simplified even more, especially in math. Acceleration seems to be denied almost on principle, because of the problems in pre-2.0 acceleration, when really it had been a good idea poorly applied.

As someone who has experienced German, French, British and a little bit of Japanese education, what on earth are we preparing our children for here in the USA?

The economic superpowers will be Asian ones - they have worked hard on their educational goals and their students are ambitious and work hard. 
The next American generations will have not have a chance to be competitive if we muck about like this.

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