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Sure, the district has published a ton of information about curriculum 2.0.  I do not dispute that.  [b]The problem is that it still does not make sense to a parent.[/b]  It may make sense to a school administrator trying to create some aggregate analysis of how the school district is doing as a whole, but it does not tell me much about my kid.  No amount of explaining will matter if the system itself does not make sense.  My child got all Ps.  All I know from this is that she did not fail.  I do not know if she is better at math or reading.  I do not know if she just met this baseline expectation, or if she exceeded it by a lot or a little, etc.  It is just not enough information, or at least enough meaningful information.[/quote]

It depends on which parent you're talking about. If you're talking about me, then yes, it does make sense to a parent. So I don't think it's valid to generalize.[/quote]

The problem with DCUM is that it never fails to surface the most arrogant, insufferable individuals.  I 100% agree with pp who says the report is meaningless.  You have offered zero support for your position that the report card is great, and offers lots of information.  <b>You're coming back again and again to belittle those of us who would like to know how our kid is doing in school but are not provided with any information whatsoever. </b> As for the reporting scheme, it's okay at the K-2 level.  After that, you're trying to prepare kids for middle school. If parents don't know at the 3 to 5 level whether their kids are mastering the skills and content they're supposed to be mastering to succeed in middle school, then MCPS is failing parents.  [/quote]

How do you know who is coming back again and again? I posted at 10:43, 15:14, and and 17:02. All of the other posts aren't me. Could you please cite what you found belittling in my post, so that I can try to avoid doing this again?

For what it's worth, my position is that, in my experience, this report card format does not offer any less information than the previous report card format -- except possibly for not having comments, which, depending on the teacher, could potentially be helpful (though the comments my kids got were boilerplate and anodyne) -- and potentially offers more. However, the argument that PPs like 14:08 make about the new report card format as it relates to children with learning disabilities makes a lot of sense to me, and I would be interested to hear from them, although they certainly do not owe me an explanation, what was better about the previous report card format for them.[/quote]

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