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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I guess it depends on what you consider "basic education". In the country where I grew up (f. USSR), the expectation was that all students regardless of ability will have two years of in-depth trigonometry/pre-calculus work by age 16. (Trigonometric equations, exponents, logarithms, limits, etc...) It appears that the only way to ensure that at least some students get the same level of education in this country is by advocating for more differentiation and acceleration. I don't know about PP but I am a very free-range parent and I don't think my child is a genius or even "gifted". But as a bright child of educated and somewhat involved parents, there is no reason why she should not be able to do the same level of work I did at her age, and I know plenty of kids from less-advantaged backgrounds who could do the same. And it is not someone's "gifted snowflakes" but those less-advantaged kids, the ones who don't have parents who are able to sit down with them every day and cover material not covered in the classroom, who really lose big time when you remove differentiation. [/quote]

I identify with your evaluation.  I attended elementary school in West Africa in the late 1950s and 1960s.  My mathematical training was far superior than what my children receive in MCPS 60 years later.  My children and I and not geniuses but I find the poor teaching of mathematics in MCPS at the elementary school level shocking.  This observation has led to my teaching them myself to prepare them for the "real" world.[/quote]

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