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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except in the wealthier schools, many of our kids never got anything in ES or MS. [/quote]
When CM was really for the advanced kids, and not for those whose parents were pushy, the 5 or 6 kids in our ES took a bus to the MS for acceleration.

Then some parents pushed for their kids to be in CM, so more than half the grade got pushed into CM which they then offered at the ES.  I volunteered there, and it was clear that many kids did not belong in that class.  I was thinking my youngest should probably be on track, not accelerated, but [b]the teacher told me that because so many kids were pushed into CM, the kids left in the "on track" class were very behind,[/b] and my kid would be completely bored.   It became opposite extremes with nothing in the middle.

That said, I'm super glad my kids will be out of MCPS.  CM was necessary for one of my kids, who is now in college as a dual math/STEM major, getting a 4.0.

The dumbing down of MoCo kids.   This will hurt those whom MCPS is trying to help the most.  Some parents will just get tutors or teach their kids at home so their kids will be more advanced come HS so that they can take AP BC calc in 11th grade. It's the kids whose parents don't have the means/will to do the same who will suffer the most in the end.[/quote]

This perfectly illustrates the problem with MCPS, which is constantly lurching from idea to idea rather than using proven change management tools.

In the early 2010s (and before), CM was truly only for a handful of kids per school. It might have been a little too tightly gate-kept, but not by much.

Then they lurched to throwing it open for every kid at or above grade level, so most of the kids in a lot of schools. They could have just opened it up a touch, but they threw open the gates entirely. SHOCKER - it did not set kids up for success, but the by time that cohort of kids started spinning out (usually pre-calculus), we'd already gone through two superintendents.

So now they are lurching back, without any sort of change management (buffer year) or any in-between approaches. It's just so dumb and avoidable. [/quote]

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