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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Umm her son is now attending something called the First Presbyterian School. Go with God, all those of you who hate MCPS. I'm sure there are a lot of 4th Presbyterian kids at Harvard.

And since her daughter is at Holton Arms, where she presumably didn't get in mid-semester, this woman doesn't sound terribly committed to public schools to begin with. [b]Note that she also takes the opportunity to trash kids from troubled families, why?[/b] Is that relevant to her choice to leave the board and MCPS? If this article was a bid for sympathy or support, she lost me.[/quote]

She doesn't trash kids from troubled families.  She says the school system cannot take on all of the problems, including home problems, of the students it serves.  I agree with her - [b]we devote far too few resources to our children in this country.  1/7th of the number we devote to the elderly[/b].[/quote]

She didn't state that we devote too few rersources to our children and I'd like to see support for the statement that we devote 1/7th of the amount that is devoted to the elderly.  You need to look at everything that's available on the local, state and Federal level.  My experience with MCPS is that they provide a tremendous amount of support to kids who need it, both in terms of providing for their physical needs and their academic needs.  Back to the article, I'm not sure that Curriculum 2.0 is as awful as people make it out to be, I just don't understand why it has to be packaged with the need to remove all acceleration.  I do agree with her that MCPS is a crazy bureaucracy.  To me, it serves more as a jobs program for high paid administrators.  I mean, look at Starr, guy is awful but gets almost half mil a year.

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