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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand what's abnormal or age-inappropriate about learning about carbon dioxide and the carbon footprint. (And I know that first-graders learned about the environment under the previous curriculum.)

It makes a lot of sense to me to wait to teach about time on an analog clock until the children have learned about fractions. And I don't see the detriment, since everybody uses digital clocks these days anyway.

Also, a lot of the stuff you complain about is school policy, not the curriculum.

(Probably under the previous curriculum, you would have been one of the people complaining about math acceleration. MCPS can't do anything right.)[/quote]

My daughter is in Pre-Calc as a 9th grader.  I definitely wasn't complaining about acceleration. Kids NEED acceleration.  They don't need to be dumbed down and now dumbed down by easier grades too.  My youngest daughter has no chance to even take this same route and she seems to be even brighter.  Instead she is learning math facts up to 12 right now, which most preschools teach when kids are 4.

You can not rationalize no need for acceleration but teaching 6yr olds about carbon dioxide is a good thing.  [/quote]

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