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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that Montgomery County has to 1) comply with national Common Core standards; 2) educate many relatively poor students who may have language barriers or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds; and 3) educate the highly able children of type-A professional parents.

It seems to me that the new curriculum was designed to address all three problems, but that the second category of parents are raising objections to it. I feel for the administrators, because I can't figure out how they would solve those three problems while making everyone happy either.[/quote]

There isn't anything unusual about a government entity having a variety of stakeholders, some with competing agendas. I get tired of hearing how the need to accommodate those with "language barriers" is in conflict with the need to accommodate kids who need a slightly faster pace. Ability groups are not the same as tracking and as long as they don't apply to every subject, I see no reason why they can't be used at least in math.[/quote]

I think "tracking" is bad only when something else contributes to the tracking. For example, you should consider these courses because your mother is a house cleaner. That is bad. Ability grouping only means that each student gets a fair and suitable education. [/quote]

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