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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am a former middle school teacher & I can tell you that MCPS would not lessen your feeling that children are being shortchanged. I wonder about this myself. I don't want to take my kid out of public school, support public schools, etc. But I do feel badly for my kids. Like you, when outside of school, I really focus on sports and arts for enrichment since the kids get far less of this than I think is desirable in school. I think the mile wide/inch deep phenomenon is a byproduct of strict content standards (which likely are a good thing -- I taught in DCPS prior to ed reform & I literally had no book and no curriculum -- just vague standards which bore no relation to my day to day). I think from your recognition of the challenge of cranking out large #s of kids to the need to attend to achievement gaps you know why schools, even the best of the best like Deal, leave room for creativity. I wonder if I sent my kids to private school (not any private, obviously, but one that aligned with my ed philosophy) if I'd be happier? I have friends w/kids in privates and they too complain, although about different things. More about a lack of rigor & weak science/math/engineering in comparison to MoCo publics. Anyways, empathy for you and your kids - I have a middle schooler and an elementary schooler & from here it sure seems like a looooong road to graduation.[/quote]

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