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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a veteran MCPS teacher, I can assure you that the writing process has been given the short end of the stick since C2.0. My colleagues and I do our best to emphasize the importance of clear, well-organized writing, with proper spelling and grammar. But the writing process--from deciding on a topic through a final draft--is very time-consuming, if done right, and time is the one thing we do not have in our poorly written, jam-packed curriculum.

I agree wholeheartedly with the poster who proposed that MCPS stop writing curriculum and instead use something off-athe-shelf, but proven. Writing curriculum is an art. It can be done well, but the people who wrote C2.0 failed miserably. Want proof? Just ask yourself how many school systems have bought C2.0. As far as I know, the answer is near, or at, zero.[/quote]

As a veteran MCPS parent, here is my experience of the writing curriculum before and with Curriculum 2.0.

Before Curriculum 2.0: BCRs. That's it. Just BCRs. Only BCRs, written so as to score the highest number of points on the MSA.
With Curriclum 2:0: many different kinds of writing, including fiction, non-fiction, narrative, and opinion (among other things), and not strictly glued to a rigid grading rubric.[/quote]

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