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[quote=Anonymous]I see a big difference even between my 9th grader and 7th grader. When 9th grader was in ES, she had lots of homework, projects, speeches, Math unit tests that she studied for a full week. 7th grader never had to memorize multiplication fact, state capitals--no science projects, math became only 30 minute assessments that never required studying. I am open to the fact I am wrong but it seems like MCPS dumbed everything down in order to prevent statistics showing no improvement in achievement gap. It pisses me off because my younger kid is really smart (older one average) but he does not get pushed at all. He gets no lower than 98% on anything in Algebra and never has big tests or big projects that he has to do outside of school. Without the challenge of a foreign language he would have nothing but 30 minutes a week of work. Getting rid of finals, which absolutely helps my older with her GPA, but I still feel is the worst decision the system could make. Thank goodness AP exams are national or they would get rid of those too. They provide too much data to evaluate results. I hope I am wrong but my opinion is that the system gets worse every year. [/quote]

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