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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest and youngest is almost a decade apart in age.  I will say MCPS has seriously slid downhill from where it was 10 years ago.  My oldest received a decent education at a W school.  We are now considering private for my youngest.  The privates as far as class options, class size, and positivity in the school climate just seemed like a happier place to go to school when we toured them.  Curriculum has a higher standard and they focus more on developing basic foundations with proven curriculums vs. the nightmare 2.0 debacle.  There is also no need for wasted school days on PARCC instruction and assessments.[/quote]

How much time did your oldest spend on MSA instruction and assessments?[/quote]

Not as much as PARCC and the MSA was paper and pencil.  With PARCC, the computers sometimes crash and loose the child's answers.  [/quote]

Really? My kid spent way more time on the MSAs than my younger kid spent on the PARCCs. Especially MSA prep.[/quote]

Schools might have different prep plans.  Our middle school was insane about the amount of class time preparing for PARCC.[/quote]

I must add, there was a principal change between MSA and PARCC transition so that could also be the issue.  The last principal could have been more focussed on trying to bump up scores for tests vs. actual student engagement and learning than the first.

I do think teaching to the test vs. teaching students to learn and retain knowledge long past the test is part of the problem with MCPS.  The non-existent curriculum is the other.  MCPS doesn't know what pathway to choose and students have paid the price.  For my kids, I saw issues early on with 2.0 so I bought textbooks and workbooks of proven curriculums to fill in gaps at home.  Even in our W school cluster, so many families didn't realize the need to do so that my children easily outperformed them in school.  [/quote]

The curriculum issue is so deeply concerning. The fact that kids will be learning with the failed curriculum for at least one more year is horrifying.[/quote]

I heard from a teacher several people in the curriculum office were given pink slips.  I am not upset they were given pink slips because of the 2.0 disaster. I just don't understand why it was done before a new curriculum could be bought.  So much for MCPS making money on selling 2.0 to other school systems.  [/quote]

Then they’re back in the classroom. They would be placed elsewhere.[/quote]

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