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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS sucks. It will blame the kids and try to use this as a way to keep pushing the new 2.0 math which is even worse!

If over acceleration was the problem you would see the group of students who were not accelerated doing better in their levels than accelerated students. The distribution doesn't show this at all. Rather than actually improving the rigor and quality of math instructions, MCPS is hoping that by holding back all students, the more talented math students will test better in the lower levels hiding the lack of performance in other students. Its a stupid approach.

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Even if this were true, this approach would work only if MCPS, under 2.0, were actually "holding back all students". But MCPS is not.

And, also, according to you, this reflects a problem with math instruction for the non-accelerated students. So let's talk about that -- math instruction for the non-accelerated students. There are a lot of them, and it's a valid topic, regardless of how 2.0 may or may not affected your own talented-at-math child(ren).[/quote]

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