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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I volunteer once a week in my daughter's class. It is insane how little time a core group of kids gets and how much time her teacher has to try to communicate with 1/3 of the class. We are in Rockville and I thought the system was top notch but it is clear my kid is skating thru as an obvious average student.[/quote]

Average to bright kids are skating by and doing nothing in the high performing schools too. We're in a "W" cluster and I volunteer in my youngest child's K class. The ESOL kids in this school are Chinese and Russian. Despite the language barrier they run academic circles around their American classmates. They get the advantage of going to school on Saturdays and learning actual material. MCPS M-F is busy work for everyone. The only difference is that in the "W" schools the teachers aren't running around trying to get every up to speed. The work is just as lackluster and the bar is just as low. Its just as bad in the upper grades.

Its not fair to blame ESOL students, the problem runs much deeper. MCPS should be accountable for providing a better learning environment and competitive curriculum. As long as parents supplement and smart kids score high on tests despite being taught nothing in school, there is no incentive for MCPS to change. [/quote]

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