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[quote=Anonymous]Parent of three teens here.  I don't have any inside information about curriculum.  But my strong impression is that the idea of a standard curriculum is something that relates to ES and MS, and much less so to HS.  This is true not only across schools but within schools.

My kid took BC calc this semester and said that the two teachers taught quite different material.  Her first semester loaded up on really advanced material not covered in the other class (and had much lower grades).  She switched to the other teacher for second semester, who remarked that the kids in the first teacher's course had missed a whole unit.

Likewise, at various times, English teachers were clearly assigning different books (within the same school) based on their own preferences, though I'd imagine (assume) they all had the same learning objectives to cover during the year-- just differing on their preferences of how to get there.

AP classes, generally, are expected to follow the AP curriculum (rather than an MCPS curriculum) and I think schools differ on how that is done (APUSH teachers, for instance, use different textbooks across schools).

So at the HS level, I'd say that learning objectives are probably exactly the same (these are relatively abstract goals for the course) but teachers have a lot of discretion about how to achieve those objectives.  
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