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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Its very stupid that in 21st century a county-level group of administrators thought the best course of action was for them to write a curriculum on their own. Ignorance and arrogance is a very dangerous thing. There are university reviewed high quality curriculums out there with materials for them to adopt. There are 32 other countries that outpace the US in math. Not every country has its curriculum documented and available to the US but many do.

Do you think that top private schools hire 50+ 3rd tier state and community college educated, former C students to sit in a bubble and make shit up? No! They adopt research driven curriculums and materials. They also…now wait for it…..make sure that the students actually work to their potential. This means that if the student fails something, they get an F not a P. The private school is contacting the parents, requiring tutoring, requiring that the student demonstrate improvement or the kid is counseled out. MCPS is passing them along and just dropping down the standards for everyone else. [/quote]

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[quote]Yes, that's true. We have also managed to graduate lots and lots and lots of people who do not understand math and cannot do math. 
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If it is MCPS's goal to graduate even more students that do not understand and cannot do math then they are succeeding with this hacked up curriculum.

Does the very clear Geometry example that the previous poster described not bother you?  If it doesn't then step away from the keyboard and bury your head back in the MCPS sandbox.[/quote]

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