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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am wondering if anyone else has noticed that these math classes are poorly taught. 
Friend of mine said get honors Geo at CJMS or Hoover, but do not take it at Churchill. Same is said about Algebra II.
They said that the curriculum and handouts stink (poorly written), and to compound the problem, the instruction is lackluster. 
I have heard that the kids aren't learning as much as they would with the regular classwork, with more straight forward handouts and better teachers. 
I wonder if it is a waste to put DS through this, maybe better to do regular Geo and Alg II and learn something?

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Churchill parent here. I totally could have written this. Honors geometry was a mess. The teacher didn’t teach. Also honors Algebra 2 curriculum was a mess as well. Teachers also didn’t know the material.

We had to get a Math tutor to fill in the gaps. The math tutor was an MCPS math teacher from another high school. He was really surprised at how honors algebra 2 was being taught (or not taught) at Churchill. He had to teach my daughter what Churchill for some reason hadn’t. He also taught her math concepts that my daughter had asked for clarification on from her teacher could not teach her, but would not admit he didn’t know how to do it.

We decided to have her drop to regular precalc. We felt that she hadn’t mastered the honors algebra 2 material enough and she’d would probably also need a weekly tutor, which we did not want to pay for.  My daughter is basically a straight A student and struggled. If you take the class, be prepared to get a tutor and put in a lot of extra time (if you want an A). We were lucky she got a B. It’s not because the kids aren’t smart or willing to work hard, it’s because the math concepts aren’t being taught and the math teachers don’t fully understand the material. 
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Wow, I also could have written this also. I have spent a small fortunate hiring math tutors (also other MCPS teachers) for my kids to get through math at Churchill.[b] They have teachers who are given classes to teach that they have no background to teach. i.e. AP Calculus etc. [/b]We also took our kids off of the honors math track and are glad we did. Mostly the same mediocre teachers, but at least the pace was slowed down. I just checked the website and all of the bad apples are still there (also in other departments). Hoping the new principal will do some house cleaning, but guessing it may take some time.[/quote]

Why? Why do they do this? [/quote]

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