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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is rare to find a school that can overcome discrepancies in parental income and education.  Those are the two most important factors in student success.  Not class size, curriculum, money spent, teacher education level...

Is 2.0 perfect no.  Will the replacement be..no.  Is there a curriculum that has been rated very successful for all different types of kids?  That is have not heard of and I would assume it would get a lot of publicity.  [/quote]

The problem was that the MCPS curriculum was trying to teach to the lowest levels of achievers.  It failed everyone in the process.  Good, robust curriculum is easily available on the market. However, that will mean that many students will fail testing.  They will probably need to be taught differently.  That will require money. See how that works?

The only thing MCPS can do now is have different curriculum for different students. This means differentiation in classrooms and creating cohorts of like ability students.  2.0 is not just imperfect, it is at the bottom of the heap in terms of curriculum.  We need textbooks, we need to follow the units in the textbooks, we need the students to do all the assignements in the textbooks and then be tested on it.  Seriously, this is not rocket surgery![/quote]

P for proficient. la la la la. [/quote]

:lol:  Silly pp, not all textbooks are terrible.  My kids have always been in magnet programs and 1 is in MIT (so not Ivy, but I guess its good enough?). So, not la la la la.   If you are educated, show some discernment. Evaluate the textbooks, research, look at other sources.  I will maintain that good curriculum for each grade and each subject is available in the market. But you all want to be spoon-fed without any work, you get what you get.

Should parents be in this situation where they are controlling the education of their students to this extent? Probably not. However, when you can see for yourself that the schools are not doing a good job, why would you wait for 7 years to speak up or take action?  Was this such a surprise to people?  Did they not have eyes and ears?  Was the growing achievement gap not a topic of heated conversation on these forums?  Were Asian students not reviled for getting supplementation outside of school? The symptoms of a poor education was being discussed on this board for years, and yet you had to be hit on your head with a hammer to get it? Really?

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