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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it...   The one take home message from parents is that they like the "feeling" of their kid going to another class and getting special attention rather than them taking a step back and building a foundation to make them even stronger in the future...

This is the world we live in...[/quote]

That is not what I'm hearing at all.  I hear frustrated parents who's kids are stuck because of an ill-conceived transition from one system to another.  MCPS should have been able to figure out a way to implement 2.0 that did not involve having children repeat an entire year of curriculum.  There are plenty of ways this could have been handled better; having kids repeat is not one of them.[/quote]

No matter how many times you slay the zombie it just keeps rising from the dead.

You are not repeating a year of curriculum if you have not grasped the matter conceptually.  If you were in second grade and did third grade math, move onto third grade the following year under a curriculum that assesses mastering mathematics fundamentaly (which was not stressed under the old system) then you cannot move to fourth grade material until that happens.  Its all quite simple but the same zombie idea keeps rising from the dead to be slayed again.

Parents are frustrated because this simple idea they cannot understand.  And if you have a better idea for a person in third grade to show fundamental understanding of third grade math while doing fourth grade work please do us a favor and enlighten the community including MCPS how to do so.

No matter what a change in curriculum is never going to go smoothly I hate to inform you.[/quote]

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