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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]No textbook, no clear path from the teacher, and even the Geometry webpage was down till this past Monday. I was concerned enough to talk with the teacher, the math resource teacher and the principal because my child was struggling in the course and I could not make heads or tails of what was going on. This is what I was told - the course is still being written, the teachers are only provided one unit at a time, the textbook does not align with the curriculum, the instructional resources are lacking because they are still being developed, and each school in the county teaching the course is coming up with their own plan on how the course should be taught. The course is complete chaos because in reality, MCPS is still determining what the curriculum should be for the course. The school has seen huge disconnects in the path to where the kids need get to so they are rethinking and redeveloping the course as it moves along through the school year.

The rolling out of new curriculums before they have been fully developed, resources written, and teachers trained is asinine. Our kids are going to be worse off than earlier generations because they are not going to be well prepared for college and higher learning. There are going to be some serious gaps in fundamental skills with MCPS's educational experiment gone amuck.
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The most idiotic statement I have heard on this forum is that "they have been teaching math wrong"  Really?  Somehow we have managed to graduate engineers and students who do very well in college.

I think what is missing from the MCPS mindset is that our children don't get these years back in Geometry/Math instruction while they are the test subjects for their new curriculum.  Look at the 2.28 BILLION dollar operating budget, where 1.47 billion are for salaries...  don't you think they have enough staff to write a curriculum.

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Since we are on this point, should not they have enough resources to write a new final math exam every year as well? [/quote]

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