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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school rotates two CM classrooms along with two classrooms participating in the new ELC program. My son was just complaining this morning that some of the kids in class can not keep up and wonders why they are there because last year "they were in the lower groups" while in  regular 3rd grade math. Sad that he is frustrated with CM because they cannot move faster because MCPS feels the need to try and bolster their Math numbers at the cost of the children.[/quote]

MCPS just can't win. If they don't accelerate lots of kids, that's bad. If they do accelerate lots of kids, that's bad too.[/quote]

No.  The problem is that MCPS has decided to accelerate kids who should not be accelerated just to make their stats looks good and to pretend that they are closing the ‘achievement gap’.[/quote]
You're the second poster who seems to have assumed that the kids who can't keep up, in the top PP's post, must be poor/black/Hispanic kids.[/quote]

NP here but the kids who can't keep up in DD's compacted math class are all white or Asian. Honest to god.
But I do think that, in general, MCPS is making a lot of changes just to rejigger the numbers and make it look like they are doing better instead of focusing on the real problems.[/quote]

You don't think offering more access to accelerated learning is a positive?  [/quote]

I think MCPS is spending too much time and money lowering bars and expanding programs in strategic places just to make it LOOK like they are successful at closing the gap. But they are not really closing the gap this way. It's fake. [b]They are changing the standards[/b]. I would have spent more of my efforts on the early education and STEM programs targeted at URM that they are putting in place. I think those will make a difference in the long run but they are too small right now. 
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Are they changing the standards of access to programs or changing the actual standards of the curriculum?  Meaning -- is the curriculum at HGC and compacted math different than it used to be?  If standards of access have changed - I don't see a problem. But if they are watering down curriculum -- that is more of a concern.  [/quote]

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