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[quote=Anonymous]2330PP, I never suggested that there are no advanced kids. Fwiw, my child tests several grade levels ahead in reading. This appears to be the norm in MoCo... everyone is advanced here! But I don't believe that your perception that your child "isn't learning anything new" during her school day is either accurate or an appropriate mechanism for assessing the efficacy of a curriculum intended for the entire school system.

Also, I'm not sure where I "blithely suggest" that parents "go elsewhere for academic enrichment"... mostly because I'm pretty sure I'd never use the word enrichment without gagging.  But it's not a bad idea, and truly, if you have the budget for an internet connection (which your posting here would imply) you have resources to supplement your child's education. As many parents do in many school systems. Even those of us with perfectly average kids, believe it or not!

Finally, as I said, I don't have any issue with parents advocating for their children individually. Please, if you're unhappy with your child's experience in the classroom, take it up with his/her teacher, and my guess is that you'll find a solution that makes everyone happy. Maybe your school is different, but each of my child's teachers has been extremely interested in ensuring that all the kids are learning as much as possible.

Just please, spare us all the rants about curriculum design unless/until you have some particular expertise in that field. And please drop the melodrama (threatening to move! insisting that MoCo is gonig to become a wasteland of the poor and uneducated!), if only because it really undercuts whatever case it is you are trying to make.[/quote]

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