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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My impression of the parents bringing these concerns is that they moved to Montgomery County, many from abroad, because they heard it had exceptional public schools and they are now frustrated to find that the public schools have to educate all children in the county and not just their own exceptional ones. Am I wrong?[/quote]

Yes, you are wrong. My wife and I lived in MoCo before we had kids. The only concession was that when we bought a house we considered the individual elementary school. Additionally, your comment that we are frustrated about "discovering" that the schools must educate all kids is amazingly condescending. [/quote]

I am this pp so I will apologize for the condescending tone. I know that we all have different perspectives on this, and I definitely may be wrong. My perspective on this is that I see how Curriculum 2.0 could be much more beneficial to the majority of students in the district than the previous system. Children are no longer permanently divided into the kids who are ahead and the kids who are behind, so children who might once have been denied the opportunity to get to, say, calculus in high school because they didn't test well early in elementary school will now have the opportunity to do so. In other words, they are trying to raise the floor by bringing all students into a reasonably advanced curriculum. This apparently means that they are limiting the ability of some kids to be in a very highly advanced curriculum (and as I understand it this is also because they have evidence that too many kids are being accelerated too quickly without thorough understanding of the material). So when I hear parents complain that their children are no longer being highly accelerated, I fear for the far greater number of kids who would be consigned to the bottom if they go back to the old system.[/quote]

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