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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest is a first-grader and thus we've always had 2.0, and it seems totally fine to me. She's doing great. I think change is difficult for people, and I certainly sympathize with kids who had to start in one program and then switch -- it seems like it should have been rolled out year by year to avoid that difficult year or two where kids have to transition. But the sense of the first grade parents I talk to is, what's all this fuss about?[/quote]

I have said this before, but I will repeat.  You can't judge C2.0 based on how your kid is doing.  For many kids, it is fine.   I will even say that I have no problem with the material per se.   My problem is that all kids have to learn at the same pace.  As I said before, I have a kid that is progressing nicely with 2.0 and another kid who is way too advanced for this stuff.  If you have an outlier kid who is either SN or HG, you just don't know what it is like to put them through school.   If not handled properly, these kids will get completely turned off and lose all their natural curiosity.   They will also disrupt other  kids.  Schools need to be able to handle different learning styles and diferent learning levels.  Any parent with multiple kids can tell you that all kids are different, even if they have the same parents.  It just seems like common sense to let kids learn at their own pace.  My sense is that there is an ideology in the reform movement and in education that says we have to hold back some kids so they don't get too far ahead of disadvantaged kids.   I am ok with spending extra money and resources on disadvantaged kids, but I am not ok with holding kids back.[/quote]

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