Reply to Curriculum 2.0, the New Report Cards and Other Points of Displeasure: What Can We Do as Parents?

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What about talking to our principals about differentiating for math? Is this something that each school can decide to do on their own within the context of 2.0?[/b]

What about reading? What can be done there?[/quote]

Absolutely! Some schools continue to offer differentiation and acceleration (including grade skipping) under 2.0.  [/quote]

The first thing we can do is get accurate information out in the open.  Not talk about "some" schools.

Please name the schools who do and don't do this.

I will start.

Chevy Chase Elementary does not allow cross-grade differentiation (i.e. all classrooms are heterogenously grouped).  There is moderate differentiation in the class room through the use of occasional "challenge" problems on homework.  Apparently there are two different sets of homework and "kids know which ones to take," but parents don't see these dual sets, only the one paper that their child brings home.  Thus, many parents do not know which "group" or "track" their child is in or even realize that there is more than one homework set.    There is no acceleration and no grade skipping.  The principal claims she has no flexibility to accelerate or grade skip, will not discuss publicly any criteria to do so, and will only say that she will meet privately with parents to discuss (at which time, she tells them again, NO.)  All kids who were accelerated at RHPS, were decelerated under C2.0 this year.

If you are at "some school" which differentiates, accelerates, or grade-skips in math, please name it and explain how it works.  
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