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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's MCPS's new process for families "to request alternative assignments if a text conflicts with sincerely held religious views."

[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2025/08/refrigerator-curriculum/[/url][/quote]

This "refrigerator curriculum" does not accomplish what Taylor and MCPS claim its accomplishing.

1) How will CO ensure the curriculums they're sending out align with the curriculum the specific teacher in a specific school is doing? Teachers have a lot of autonomy to choose and build lesson plans based on a variety of texts they choose from

2) The descriptions of the curriculum are purposely and intentionally vague and innocuous sounding, which means parents still have to do the leg work of looking up the text themselves and seeing if it is or isn't objectionable to them. This will mean "watchdog" parents will still be on the hunt to blast out warnings about texts that MCPS hopes will fly under the radar, which just perpetuates the problem they currently have. They're hoping that they won't have many opt-outs if they make the texts sound innocent enough.[/quote]

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