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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Look, I love my kids as much as the next parent, but study the curriculum? I feel like the world has gone mad! My parents, and I'm pretty sure the parents of my friends, were not so overly involved in our academic lives, and we turned out great -- good colleges, good jobs etc. [/quote]

My kid is in second grade, and I tried to read the 2.0 overview of the grade 2 curriculum...and then I got to these vague concepts like "metacognition" and my eyes rolled back into my head and I recycled the overview.

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Metacognition is a great word!  2.0 is preparing students to NOT to be Jerry's enabled kids by learning to think critically.  They become aware of their thinking and are resourceful enough to find strategies to help them fill in the gaps.

For too long, kids have been spoon-fed.  [b]Now they have the opportunity to dig deeply into concepts.[/b]  quality over quantity

You shouldn't have recycle the overview, as that was an ignorant move.  And FWIW, maybe you should learn to be a bit more resourceful by looking up definitions.[/quote]

Sounds like someone has been drinking too much of the MCPS propaganda Kool Aid.  You are starting to quote it.

Get real.  We are talking about K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders.  "Dig deeply into concepts" is BS terminology.  The kids at my child's school are not getting "extensions" and are not more academically challenged than the system in place before 2.0.  In fact, it is just the opposite.  The children who begin the units proficient at state standards have to sit and do busy work.  I was encouraged to have my child bring in Harry Potter books to fill the large amounts of time he has to wait for the rest of the class to learn the concepts.  He is bored and has dug as deep as the system will let him.

Of course MCPS had to get rid of the old report card.  They reflected if a kid was above, on, or below grade level.  Under 2.0, no kid is challenged to do above grade level work, even kids that were above grade level in previous years.  MCPS had to come up with a BS report card to match their BS curriculum to try to mask the fact that they have only succeeded in moving our kids backwards to lower standards than they aimed at before Starr became Superintendent.[/quote]

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