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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Often comes down to culture.  There’s an interesting new book out on towns that succeed in educating all kinds of kids.  Districts that Succeed is the name of the book.  We went from a district like this (MCPS) to one that cares and let me tell you it came down to employee culture - ie caring. It starts with this.

DMV districts are all challenged by too much money and not enough caring.  MCPS has 3 billion to spend a YEAR - yet cares little for the children under its welfare.  Sexual abuse is rampant. Curriculum has been crap: for years they stuck with failing Curriculum 2.0, poor leadership (Jack Smith?). A district can maybe coast with one of these issues but not all of them.  Lived in Alexandria for 2 years - guessing it’s similar.[/quote]

Virginia is on a path toward making the same mistakes.

[b]The Curriculum 2.0 - specifically the MCPS Math 2.0 - was a disaster.  It was founded on “equity,” but it was a colossal failure for all students.[/b]

Virginia’s Department of Education is now pushing the equity-based VMPI, which waters down (“blending”) or eliminates higher math in Virginia.

I hope, for the sake of our children’s future, that Virginia reconsiders and scraps the VMPI.[/quote]
Stop with the lies and misinformation. C2.0 was not founded on "equity", in fact it was found to be deficient mostly for disadvantaged students.[/quote]

Do your research:

“ Equity and Fairness: The district believes that equity is of the utmost importance and that all students and staff should engage inequitable practices in all classrooms.

Curriculum 2.0: In an effort to modernize the school experience,Montgomery County Public Schools’ has a new, fully digital curriculumcalled Curriculum 2.0. It is focused on building knowledge through criticalthinking skills. Piloted in 2011 in Kindergarten and first grade classrooms, itis now being fully implemented across K-5 classrooms in the district. MCPS isreflecting on and upgrading Curriculum 2.0 to meet the needs of all studentsand teachers. A main goal has been to fuse core academic areas such asreading, writing and math with the arts, science, physical education and more,creating opportunities for building creative and critical thinking skills.”

It is right on the website.
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