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[quote=Anonymous]Agree that MCPS is riding its coattails.  I grew up here and also graduated from some of the more popular schools.  I don't think many of them were that great and they were based off reputation back them,  But, upper MC and Howard, AA and many parts of VA were also farm country back then.  We have done private and MCPS.  Both have their advantages but I am not a fan of Curriculum 2.0 (Common Core and having standards is good) as it leaves a lot of gaps in education (at least for younger kids), no books or workbooks (plenty of common core workbooks other states use, some of which are very good as we did them at the private) and really concerned about how our classroom functions.  If it continues we will move or go back to private, if we can find one we can afford.  We heavily supplement.

I have a SN kid and while mine is doing fine with Curriculum 2.0, I cannot imagine the struggle it must be for many SN kids or kids who don't get support at home.  The math in the early grades makes no sense.  They don't teach handwriting or spelling.  It is heavy writing in the grade we are in but I cannot imagine many SN kids keeping up if they have fine motor or other processing issues.    They are so focused on one curriculum that it impossible to just have a one size fits all approach and its clearly not working.

I'm also very disappointed with the services in MCPS.  We were refused for many years and are finally getting some support but in the meanwhile we've spent a fortune.  The irony is the same staff who denied us asks why we didn't ask sooner.  We did many times and it got refused.  [/quote]

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