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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Until YOU, as a parent, are as kind to us, we cannot work together. Furthermore, [b]until YOU can write a successful lesson plan that incorporates all of the essential components and critical thinking skills - adding in, of course, strategies that work with all learners and all skill levels, don't pretend YOU are an educator[/b].

You are not one. You have a PhD in stats. A struggling 9th grader in matter and energy will not give a rat's ass about your PhD. In fact, our school lost two career changers with PhDs b/c they could NOT handle the subject matter, planning, grading - and most importantly, the management.

But go ahead and study your numbers, PhD. Stay away from the reality we face each day.

You have NO credibility with us. [/quote]

New poster.  I have children in MCPS.  They are in the elementary schools.  We have experience in 4 of these elementary schools--West County.  My remarks are not made to impugn anyone but to state my observations.  The one consistent observation with all my children:  most of the teachers trying to teach math were ineffective.  Most of the advanced elementary kids were in the classes were further ahead in the subject than the teachers.  I think this was because most of the teachers we encountered hadn't gone very far in the study of math -- and some propably weren't very facile with the subject to begin with.  Many of the kids who were advanced were the kids "getting into trouble" in the classrooms.  One of the problems I have witnessed is it's hard for the teachers to teach if they don't know the material themselves and so the some of the "class trouble makers" (advanced students) are really stuck waiting for the teacher to move the puck.  The problem is not the curriculum as such but its implementation and execution (or lack thereof).  I do not fault the teachers.  It's what we have to work with.  Loading their overflowing plates with further requirements to teach to both tails of the Bell shaped curve under these circumstances is pure folly.  This will fail.  At least, allowing appropriate advancement up and down grade levels served a functional pop off to the system.

Perhaps our esteemed MCPS educational leaders will revisit the wisdom of this decision (prohibition of Math advancement in public schools).  It makes no sense in the 21st century world and may sew irrevocable damage to the pipeline for the biotechnology workforce in this area and ultimately the local economy.

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