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[quote=Anonymous][quote]This is what I want (AT THE VERY LEAST) from MCPS -

Webpage(s) that contains -

1) Detailed curriculum - broken down by grade level, subjects and quarters - AND that lists the textbooks (chapter #) and other resources that MCPS teachers use to teach, for each UNIT.
 
2) And that is easily accessible from MCPS and School websites. I hate that to reach any information I have to make multiple click throughs and then have a link that opens a PDF file. The usability of the website sucks!
 
3) And that the information is on the web page in plain HTML. I hate getting links that opens up DOC and PDF files. [/quote]

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To be honest, I'd be happy with just #1.  Not the color brochure that each of my kids has brought home written in education-speak.  For the love of God, why can't my kid get a Math text book in the 5th grade?  That could come home occasionally for me to peruse?  I'm not against the new methods being taught under Common Core, but how am I supposed to know what they are?  If my kid wants help understanding a concept, doesn't MCPS want me to be able to help her?  Since nothing is provided to me, I have to fall back on the way I learned name-the-concept in the 5th grade 33 years ago.

Real world example:  My kid has learned a different method of long division from her MCPS teacher.  She is now doing division by decimals - but the way I learned to do this is not the way she's been taught.  If I could read a textbook showing me how it's being taught, I could help her.  Instead, I just confuse her by falling back on my old method.  (and by the way, I have a hard time understanding what was so wrong with the old way, considering that I still perfectly well understand and remember how to do it 33 years later . . .) [/quote]

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