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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I would say that the only way to improve MCPS would be to be willing to piss some parents off. Educational systems in our country have been designed for far too long to replicate society's distribution of knowledge, wealth, and power, by creating unequal outcomes across racial and socio-economic status. Meaningful educational change is going to threaten people, especially people with money and power.[/quote]

Absolutely agree with this and 2.0 is a great example of exasperating the actual divide. Hiding the divide only serves people who work in MCPS. Its not different than giving kids passing grades when they can't read in high school. Who gets harmed? The poor kids get harmed.

Parents with money and education will complain but they will opt out for private or spend money on extra classes outside of class. 2.0 is making the achievement gap worse not better. The number of kids doing Kumon, Singapore or some other type of math course outside MCPS at my school is astonishing. They are learning math while kids just doing 2.0 are not. Guess who will score better on state-wide tests or national tests that MCPS can't suppress...the kids with supplementation or kids in privates. Guess who will still be at the bottom of the pack? The kids who can't afford this instruction. Its sad.

In an odd way, its actually a great time to be in Montgomery County if you have a high achieving student and can afford to get them real instruction outside of MCPS. There will be some kids in the middle with the "oh I don't care about whatever they are teaching, no homework, no challenge..fine by me.. so I have more time to spend on the soccer team or PTA crap" that will fall off from being any competition. At our school, there are not too many of these types but I'm some are out there. [/quote]

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