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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support paying taxes. I support allocating non-traditional educational resources such as food, healthcare etc within schools with higher poverty to address the problem. I support giving more resources to schools with poverty for smaller classes, special programs, more ESL etc.

However, there is a balance and Montgomery County needs to provide a good educational program for ALL the kids. While the lower SES schools have a 12:1 K ratio, the higher performing schools have 28:1. This is more than twice and 28 is way too high for any K class. The standards for the curriculum and level of challenge has been lowered so badly by 2.0 to allow the lower performing schools to claim success that kids from higher performing school who come into K with age appropriate skills are doing less than they did in preschool. This is not OK. Forcing my kids to sit on a bus for several hours a day and lose the neighborhood connection to a school just to mask over the housing segregation is not OK. The day this happens is the day everyone moves out of the county. [/quote]

+1 - I've had kids in MCPS long enough (huge gap in ages) to say yes the standards have been lowered and the current system of accountability is a joke for Elementary school age kids.  Just look at what a child needs to produce to get a P as a passing grade.  The standards and level of expectations are way lower than what they were 10 years ago for Elementary students.  I can't wait to see when this crop of guinea pig 5th graders hit Middle School.

I was so concerned about the lack of standards that for my child, I provided him with outside resources.  He has a tutor to help with his writing skills, he reads at least 30 minutes a day, and he is working through the Singapore Math curriculum.  These are all on our family's dime and time and we are not the only family that feels the need for educational supplementation.  A lower income family might not know of the need to supplement or have the resources.  Therefore, is it any wonder our kids perform better?

You can be the squeaky wheel, protest for better, write blogs on DC Urban Mom but meanwhile, what are you personally doing to help your child's education?  If you are doing nothing than your child will continue to fall behind. [/quote]

I have 2 kids that are 9yrs apart and agree that they have dumbed down the education to the increasing SES going to MCPS. But many won't be proactive with their kids education. This is why we have the problem.  Yet people want things equal.   [/quote]

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