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[quote=Anonymous]Op, I am the op of this thread.      [url]https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/716481.page[/url]

You are going to get push-backs from the teachers because they do not have the bandwidth to help you. I cultivated relationships with all the teachers and the school  and met their needs for classroom supplies, books, snacks, chaperoning, PTA, donations etc when possible.  Apart from that, I did not ask for their input on what they were teaching my kid. I used the MCPS curriculum to determine what would be taught, but pretty much added my own curriculum on top of that, based on my resources.  We are also at a high FARMS school cluster, and my kids have been in the magnet program for most of their school life. Even with the magnet programs, the middle school magnet curriculum was subpar and I was pretty much scrambling to afterschool and add rigor.

I think with a bit of research, you can craft a curriculum uniquely suited for your child. You will find that the school assignments are really slim and it does not truly interfere with the afterschooling.  My kids finished homework at school in ES and MS. That was my expectation from them. Only in HS, have I shifted my attention away from curriculum and moved it to the college process. [/quote]

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