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[quote=juanjunoz][quote=Anonymous]Some students are getting to Alg I too quickly and don't have the necessary background and number sense to be successful.  There is a reason many of us didn't take Algebra I until 8th or 9th grade.

When MCPS tried to slow things down, parents complain.  
When kids aren't placed in the highest courses, parents complain. 
When the content gets difficult parents complain.

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Actually, we're new to public school so this is my first complaint. Also, actually this isn't an MCPS issue and maybe I should not have posted here. The MCAP is a state wide test.
I showed some of these problems to my mom, who attended private school, then a seven-sisters college, and then started a PhD (but didn't finish) in educational psychology. She said that some of what is included in the Algebra I curriculum were things she wasn't doing until graduate school.

It was actually George W. Bush who started us down this path of high stakes testing, which is pretty funny since I highly doubt he could have passed the Algebra I MCAP then, now, or ever. [/quote]

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