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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before my kid started MCPS I used to not fully understand all the complaining. But we are only 1.5 years in and I just can't with these people. This is all just a huge, expensive distraction from the reality that they are graduating a large majority of kids not graduate proficient in math and reading.[/quote]

Yep - how much is this regional disaster going to cost us?

And in the meantime,[b] the school district is writing its own English Language Arts curriculum for high schools[/b]. You might have wondered why that refrigerator curriculum looked haphazard and cast such a low bar. Why can't we buy externally developed and externally evaluated curriculum as the Maryland Blueprint requires? Because we are spending untold millions on implementing up to 100 ill-designed regional programs that will also utilize homemade curriculum.[/quote]
hahahaha.. another 2.0 disaster.  My kids started MCPS when they implemented 2.0, and I was willing to give it a chance.  I defended it on this forum.  What I dummy I was.   2.0 was a freakin disaster and [b]MCPS thinks they can write their own curriculum at the HS level[/b]?

So glad we are done with MCPS this spring. [/quote]
HS level curricula have been MCPS-created,  including the Magnets. [/quote]

Magnet curriculum is created essentially by a handful of talented teachers targeted at the current magnet student body. For example, discrete math follows the AOPS intermediate number theory with adding in a lot of college-level proofing concepts, which is too easy for students who regularly attend various math competitions, but too hard to students who only master AP Calc and AP stat but do not have math competition experience. Now we are talking about implementing this course to 6 programs with largely diluted math competitor student body. This equals to a death announcement for this course basically. [/quote]

Or a change for the course to accommodate those who don’t do math competitions  on the weekend nor whose parents haven’t been math prepping them since ES.

Why should kids who have mastered AP Calc an AP Stars not be qualified to take Discrete math?[/quote]

No, you don't get me (or maybe my description is misleading). Students who had or had not taken AP Calc and AP Stat can both take discrete math. It doesn't require calculus or statistics knowledge in a large sense, but it's a totally different area in mathematics. Have you heard of "Fermat's Last Theorem"? It is the branch of pure mathematics dedicated to studying the properties, relationships, and patterns of integers. This is one area that necessary for HS math contesters, but no use for the rest students who do not want to compete in math contests or not interested in majoring in pure math major in college. This course will absolutely disappear in the regional program as you won't have enough students interested and capable of doing this. [/quote]

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