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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Met with my child's teacher yesterday and asked about that mysterious letter we all received.  She tells me there has been minor changes with the new 2.0 - basically no difference.  It has not been "dumbed down" as I've heard people say.  The main reason is that the HGC curriculum writers were pulled to write the regular 4th grade curriculum and that the HGC curriculum was being rolled out a quarter at a time - teachers were not getting enough planning time.  Since the former curriculum already met common core (and the fact there were to be few changes to it anyway) they will  revert back. 
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Did you actually fall for that b.s.?  Hope not.  On its face, it is inaccurate.  The fact that opportunities for advanced math (anything beyond math 4/5) have been eliminated under 2.0 is a huge change and a "dumbing down" of the opportunities that used to be available at the HGC (and elsewhere).  Three years ago when my DD was at the same HGC that my DD is at now, she was able to do Math 6 or Math 7 in 4th grade.  This year the maximum opportunity available for HGC students is math 4/5.  This is true regardless of the child's math ability.  How is this not a dumbing down?

MCPS is great at dancing around the obvious and using semantics to hide-the-ball.  That seems to be at work here.  Look, I'm quite happy with the HGC - particularly the non-math aspects - but to pretend that 2.0 hasn't impacted (dumbed down) math at the HGC as well as at the home schools, is just not true.[/quote]

I was not referring to math.  [/quote]

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