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[quote=Anonymous]Well said!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in too.

LET'S DO IT!!!!

Even the teachers hate this new curriculum and complain. Parents don't like it either (except for those who have great teachers who make up for what 2.0 lacks.

However, educators who sit in an office away from the kids all the time think it's best for our kids. I don't want my kid part of this high risk experiment any longer.  [/quote]

Our kids are being used as guinea pigs in a very high risk experiment indeed.

The teachers hate 2.0, the principals hate 2.0 and many, many parents hate it.  This is a top-down, bureaucracy-driven social experiment.  It is about removing opportunities for high-achieving students.  It is about one-size-fits-all in a giant school system.  It is about dismantling the entire curriculum in order to (supposedly) correct over-acceleration.  Guess what?  If the problem was "over acceleration" then the solution is to simply stop over accelerating!  You don't need to change (dumb down) the curriculum, eliminate unit testing, change the report card, and eliminate grouping by ability in order to address prior over-acceleration.  When the "solution" is a wholesale overhaul of the system like this, you need to be very suspicious.  This curriculum that is all about an ideology (of mediocrity).  THAT has nothing to do with remedying past over-acceleration.

This curriculum will lead to a greater-than-ever divide of the haves vs. the have-nots.  Public school kids will be hindered under this system meanwhile the kids attending private schools will not.  Students at Sidwell, St. Albans, Holton, NCS, etc. will not be subjected to this system - but our public school kids will.  Already, parents who are able to pay are contemplating moving kids out of our "high-functioning" elementary school.  In addition, parents with financial resources are choosing to supplement with tutoring or outside academic programs.  I've never before seen such a stark difference between public vs. private (or between financial resources vs. not).  By eliminating opportunities for achievement, enrichment and acceleration (where appropriate), it seems like 2.0 wants to dismantle the very things that made MCPS so good in the past.  Why?  Why? Why?  Who's ideology is driving this?  Is it Sup. Starr?  Is it the school board?  Who?  Parents deserve answers and kids deserve better! [/quote][/quote]

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