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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whenever are people talking about how tracking would solve all of the school's problems I have to roll my eyes. I think people only like the idea of tracking as long as their kid is at the highest track if your kid got into a lower track they'd start complaining and suing[/quote]
Those debates would happen at the margin. Overall, however, if you group kids, you decrease the range of skills in any one class, making it easier for teachers to target instruction where it's needed. Students in all of the groups benefit from targeted instruction. [/quote]

And if mcps would simply ditch benchmark and offer all students the enhanced reading instruction, I suspect everyone would do better.

In private school they teach reading through literature, and they also teach vocabulary and grammar. End result: well-equipped students.

Mcps demographics shifted dramatically and they pivoted to focus on test scores by dumbing down the curriculum. Big mistake.[/quote]

My friend: you clearly are new here.  MCPS’ decline happened long before majority minority.  The in crowd would like you to blame black and brown but the poor management is more a cause of the crappiness than little Juan from Nicaragua.  Read about the Curriculum 2.0 give-away to Pearson; then about the mysterious hack of all student information: then the final 500,000 report from Hopkins that hood old fat Jack ordered to get rid of it.  (Really to cover the fact that the horrible contract, signed in 2021, probably was for 10 years).  What a lesson in utter incompetence/malfeasance.[/quote]

My friend, I am pushing 50. I’m not new here. I have a handful of kids spanning decades. One was a 2.0 Guinea pig.

You might want to read up on the shifting demographics in MoCo. It started before 2.0. (Perhaps read up on the history of El Salvador and the refugee resettlement ties to MoCo.)

Mcps has jumped from curriculum to curriculum rather than step back and remember what kids need to thrive. [/quote]

What were they using before 2.0?  What was wrong with it? [/quote]

Common core standards were adopted in 2010ish by the department of education (or whoever). Montgomery Co didn't want to wait for textbook companies to write and test curriculums based on common core standards, so, we wrote our own because--MCPS is so fabulous (with a grant from Pearson textbooks basically selling our kids' testing data). I never understood what the hurry was. Curriculum 2.0 was horribly implemented with poor planning and little teacher training. One of my kids started with 2.0 in 3rd grade. One of her assignments was add 1+1 using 10 different methods. This was for a kid who had known her math facts since 1st grade. WTF. We were told that the curriculum was much "harder" than the previous curriculum.

The previous curriculum was not perfect (for example it really did not focus on memorizing math facts, you were just expected to do that at home), but at least the kids had science and social studies. The teachers I know think that 2.0 was especially horrible for ELA.[/quote]

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