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If acceleration and grouping is offered for reading, why shouldn't it be offered in math? That's my first concern with 2.0. My second concern is that those who are already accelerated in math will be forced to repeat math lessons during the transition years.

If Curriculum 2.0's approach will provide better grounding in math, why can't students get the better grounding and then accelerate, if they are capable and interested?

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They can...[/quote]

THEY CAN NOT.  That is the whole point.  Last year, before 2.0, kids who were able to do the work, were able to go to an upper grade classroom in order to get the challenge they needed in math.  (A 2nd grader could go to a 3rd grade room and get 3rd grade math; a 3rd grader could go to a 5th grade class, if that was his/her level).  Please understand that this is OVER under 2.0.  This is NO LONGER ALLOWED.  I know this b/c last year, my DD went to a 4th grade class to do math, this year, simply b/c she's a 3rd grader, she is re-doing 3rd grade math (along with her entire, undifferentiated classroom of children).  Has she lost all of her math abilities over the summer?  No.  But under 2.0, it doesn't matter that she is ready for more (and did more advanced math last year!).  All that matters is that she's a 3rd grader...and 2.0 says this 3rd grade work is what ALL 3rd graders will do.

Do parents really think this makes sense?[/quote]

I am not the PP you are responding to, but you're wrong.  The school could absolutely send your daughter, if she were truly able to demonstrate that she needed the acceleration (under the admittedly more strict guidelines than the county's previous acceleration policy), to another class for math.  What is gone with 2.0 is skipping an entire class (or half the grade or more in some cases) ahead a grade in math and hoping that the holes fill themselves in.  I understand maybe your child's teacher or even principal has told you this, but that doesn't make it true for the entire curriculum.  It is not going to keep her from getting into Harvard someday.[/quote]

All due respect, you are wrong.  In fact, our principal specifically told us (at a meeting we have already had) that if anyone could be accelerated, if would be DD (her teacher agrees).  She specifically told us that there will be NO acceleration in this school b/c of 2.0.  In fact, the math blocks (that used to all occur at the same time during the day) have shifted in order to prevent kids in one grade from attending math in another grade.  (For ex., last year as a 2nd grader, she attended 4th grade math in a 4th grade class b/c it occurred at the same time.  This year each grade does math at a different time of day in order to make sure that there is no movement between grades).

I get that it is hard to know from anonymous posts whether someone is blowing smoke about their "little snowflake" as it's called here.  But I can tell you that this girl loves and accels at math (probably from her father's side b/c he's a physicist:)).  Trust me, I'm not interested in complaining about this out of some sense personal narcissism ("my kid is great" or whatever).  I'm just dealing with a kid who's accels at math and currently in her school, there is no way to get her the instruction she needs.

Glad to hear if this is being handled differently where you are.  But from where I sit it is frustrating.[/quote]

"Where I am" is working for MCPS. It sounds like that is your principal's decision based upon a number of factors (the scheduling of different math blocks, etc).  It is not county policy that your daughter cannot be accelerated as I described previously.  I stand by what I said that you should continue to advocate for her if you feel that is what is really appropriate. [/quote]

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