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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My thoughts on MCPS:

I don't care for the new grading system, but Curriculum 2.0 doesn't really bother me.

Acceleration does exist in the system--my DC will be in compacted math next year (1.5 years of math taught during one school year.)

Prior to MCPS, my DC was in a private school.  I will say it was more rigorous, but the opportunity for acceleration wasn't there.

If I had to rate MCPS on a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a solid 7. It's decent.[/quote]

That depends on the private.  Parochials rarely advance. College prep schools do. One of my daughters is at a private and is very much accelerated and having all 3 levels under the same roof, kids can take classes 1-3yrs above their grade without a problem. That said, they won't accelerate unless there is 100% knowledge understanding. Something MCPS didn't really do before which is why kids in acceleration didn't memorize basic math facts and were struggling by 5th grade acceleration. The problems took too long. [/quote]

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