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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poster at Time 1900:

I've been to a forum and read lots from specific high school teachers who are concerned about over-acceleration and children not getting a strong enough grasp of the basics.

I don't discount that. Rather, I think there's truth to it. But I think that, in part, that is the county's own implementation of the pathways that has been the problem. Older son's elementary school over-accelerated children who weren't ready. The county (or maybe schools themselves?) put quotas on the NUMBER of children who needed to be placed in advanced math. I once heard a principal talk with parents about college readiness being tied to such acceleration. She insisted that X number of children needed to be accelerated because the county was requiring it. I used to hear from parents of children struggling in my child's math class. "Is your son struggling, my child is" kinds of comments.

Now, the county is going in the complete opposite direction. Let's not accelerate at all because we failed children so badly with acceleration.

The truth is that children don't fit in either of the boxes. Different children need different amounts of acceleration. My older child is THRIVING with 2-yr math acceleration. He doesn't struggle, he gets the concepts easily and he's amazing at math reasoning. But he's always been that way, pretty much from birth. Now writing on the other hand ... not so much. He has to work much harder there. Meanwhile, your child might be able to write and write, but might need far more time on math concepts than my child. Both are okay, but MCPS isn't willing to accept that.

There's a balance to accelerating and it's time that MCPS find it.[/quote]

+1   This is exactly correct.  Pathways allows kids to move at their own pace.   Curriculum 2.0 is one-size-fits-all.[/quote]

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