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Why don't you try using your own common sense.  Dumbing down the curriculum, slowing down the kids who need more and eliminating pathways for kids to excel (math pathways, differentiated classrooms, etc.) will hurt kids.  Don't you get it?  Curriculum 2.0 is being TESTED on your children.  It is nothing more than a pilot-program.  Completely untested and unproven - yet rolled out in one of the largest and until-now "best" school districts.  That should make you wonder and ask questions.  When you start asking, you will have more questions because the rationale for 2.0 is murky at best - driven more by financial incentives and a world-view that suggests no child should be allowed to excel in school (lest anyone less able feel bad).  After all, proficient should be good enough under 2.0.  It is unconscionable to eliminate opportunities for children to excel in school.  That's 2.0.[/quote]

Seriously, I get the anger. I've read all these posts. I am just an analytical, often skeptical person, and I would like to base my views on this on real comparative educational data. If people are saying the curriculum is dumbed down compared to that of other nations, I want to see that. I don't want to hear about what someone remembers from when they were a kid in Europe, or what anyone has heard from parents in Japan. I would like to see if there is anything out there describing the math work that early elementary school students are doing abroad, so I can compare it directly with what my child is doing. If there is no data, this is all baseless hysteria. [/quote]

Thanks PP - I agree. [/quote]

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