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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not say that MCPS was good. The teachers do know the students, but they were powerless to stop all the advancing. Now that the rapid advancing has stopped, parents are complaining that it moves too slowly. 
Anyway, Norwood is a different model. What seems to keep coming up is the teachers in K-3, maybe 4, are not effective. [/quote]

My kids had and have had excellent teachers throughout lower school, and I feel confident that they are getting a sound education. (The older one scored in the 99th percentile on all sections of the SSAT with minimal prep, and she didn't learn that math on her own.) I would like to see more challenge and creativity in some areas of the curriculum, but I think that would be true just about anywhere. More important, I believe that the school is already making changes that will strengthen both the curriculum and teaching. I am truly sorry if you have had a poor experience in LS. While my kids' experience has been excellent overall, both had an ineffective teacher at some point in their time in LS, and I know how frustrating that can be. However, I think it is far from true that "the teachers in K-3, maybe 4, are not effective." And prefacing this assertion with "what seems to keep coming up" greatly overstates, IMO, the extent to which this view is shared by other Norwood families.[/quote]

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