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Actually, it's not 2.0 that's the problem.
Neither the previous nor the current curriculum went in depth and neither truly developed students' critical thinking skills. Not enough writing essays and not enough challenging math problems. Acceleration just to get basic facts covered in as many areas as possible is not the same as rigorous teaching and application of math (or thoughtful writing or the scientific method or whichever skill) in difficult problems, which is what colleges expect or should expect.

The current issue with MCPS relates more to overcrowding due to locally intense demographic pressure. It makes it even more difficult for teachers who already may not have been stellar, implementing an imperfect curriculum, to reach all their students and adapt their teaching methods to all their individual needs.

The other counties are probably just as bad or worse.

As always, if you want your children to have a well-rounded education and critical thinking skills, you need to talk to your kids about current events at the dinner table, take them to interesting happenings, have them read seminal texts way beyond what is required in school, do more challenging math problems, etc.[/quote]

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