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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think whether or not you like MCPS will be influenced by the capabilities of your child. If you have a very capable, off the charts type of kid, MCPS does not have a good system to teach them something. Most of the dissatisfied parents fall into this category. 
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Wait.  You'll like it just fine unless your kid is really smart?  Is this some kind of passive aggressive thing?  You should get together with the lady over on the private school thread who is complaining there are not enough gifted kids in private schools and how private schools should track all the kids, especially those with IQs of 130 and up, so they don't languish and their "giftedness" can be fully maximized.  In other words, she thinks privates should be GT magnets.[/quote]

I have a gifted kid and a kid at the other end of the spectrum.  Both in ES.  I think MCPS has done fine with the gifted kid only because they let this child take advanced math.  However, they are now talking about taking this kind of acceleration away with the new curriculum that is being rolled out in K-2.  Right now, I don't have a lot of confidence in the future of MCPS.  I think it is full of ideological ivory tower policy makers that want to push a social utopia that says all kids are the same and can learn the same way and at the same pace.  They won't admit that this will probably just produce the same outcomes and probably hurt those kids at either extreme end of the learning spectrum.  That said, your kid will still learn to read and write.  They probably can get to Algebra by 8th grade and Calculus by 12th.  Don't expect them to do big exciting projects and research papers.   After MCPS, it is up to them to push their own education agenda in college and beyond.[/quote]

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