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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school rotates two CM classrooms along with two classrooms participating in the new ELC program. My son was just complaining this morning that some of the kids in class can not keep up and wonders why they are there because last year "they were in the lower groups" while in  regular 3rd grade math. Sad that he is frustrated with CM because they cannot move faster because MCPS feels the need to try and bolster their Math numbers at the cost of the children.[/quote]

MCPS just can't win. If they don't accelerate lots of kids, that's bad. If they do accelerate lots of kids, that's bad too.[/quote]

No.  The problem is that MCPS has decided to accelerate kids who should not be accelerated just to make their stats looks good and to pretend that they are closing the ‘achievement gap’.[/quote]
You're the second poster who seems to have assumed that the kids who can't keep up, in the top PP's post, must be poor/black/Hispanic kids.[/quote]

I hesitate to post this but  our school is mostly white with very few minority kids. The minority kids in my school consists of Hispanics, blacks, non-US born blacks, and Middle Eastern families, and asians.  While visiting for back to school night I noticed that the fourth grade regular math class consisted of a majority of minorities. Now, I know my child definitely does not qualify for compacted math and he is in the right placement for math and I don't know if it is  The same for the other families but I was hard not to notice the division.  I think all the Asian kids were and compacted math (haha & of course!) and just a couple of the US-born blacks. It was very strange seeing it and since I don't know the details I would never say anything to anybody at the school but it did catch my eye.[/quote]

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