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If that is true, that is terrible too.  I know, however, in our school that there are all sorts of special needs accommodations that require resources, time, etc. I support those efforts to accommodate those students.  Accommodating higher achieving students, like I am advocating, would for example mean [b]simply grouping those students together for math or reading or whatever for some or all of the day[/b].  This doesn't even cost anything.  It seems like MCPS has a bias against students who achieve more than the grade level minimum standard. [/quote]

This is NOT simple. It is anything but simple. This is a school system with 144,000 children. 64,000 of them are in elementary alone. Some of them learned to read at 2 and are several grade levels advanced. Some of them just arrived here and don't speak English. (Some of them are both!) Curriculum 2.0 is an attempt to get the curriculum in line with [i]national[/i] common core standards, holding all students to a high standard while somehow managing to serve students well at both the top and the bottom. The old system worked very well for the top, not so well for the bottom. I really have to hand it to them -- they are trying. And I see nothing that says they are not succeeding so far, except on DCUM.[/quote]

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