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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problems in MCPS can't be blamed in increasing FARMS. MCPS is a horribly run organization. The superintendent is an arrogant idiot who can't manage his way out of a paper bag.

MCPS may have decided to trash the curriculum to hide the achievement gap in school with higher FARMS number but they didn't have to do this. Its not the fault of the FARMS students who deserve a better curriculum too.[/quote]

Oh, it's one of the "Superintenent Starr invented 2.0 to hide the achievement gap by lowering achievement among high-achieving groups!" conspiracy theorists. In order to believe in this theory, of course, you have to disregard that

1. MCPS started developing 2.0 under Weast.
2. Every school district in Maryland has changed its curriculum to align with the Common Core.
3. Lowered achievement among high-achieving demographic groups would be immediately obvious, because MCPS tracks achievement by demographic groups. (But maybe you think that Starr and everybody else in MCPS is too stupid to figure this out?)

And you cannot logically claim, at the same time, that the increasing proportion of poor students has nothing to do with achievement in MCPS, and that MCPS invented 2.0 to hide the achievement gap. If there were no achievement gap between poor and non-poor students, MCPS would not need to (supposedly) try to hide it.

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