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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too bad mcps won't post the resumes of the teachers who were plucked from obscurity (random schools) and got sweet gigs (hired by their pals) to write the curriculum. I think most people wound be shocked by the lack of expertise or basic tenure. [/quote]
Don't know where your insight comes from, I have no knowledge of who's in the curriculum office.  And I doubt the ES parents are noticing anything.  But someone's complete incompetence is apparent when looking that MS and HS rollouts.  Some of the errors and just choice of content in the giant packets (which are the only textbook for the classes) are appalling.  This is definitely where 2.0 goes off the rails.  Yet the whole promise of reform was students with better foundational knowledge would be better prepared for later work.  Only now they're tweaking those classes to near worthlessness.  My DS was in the rollout year for Alg I, Geometry and now Alg II and where is the real learning going on?  In physics class this year.  Finally a reality check.  The emphasis of the previous math courses has been no preparation for actual applications.  And this is not just my DS, who is a straight A math student FWIW, at back to school night there was a long line of grave parents circling the physics instructor.[/quote]

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