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[quote=Anonymous]The point the PP's are trying to make is that if you don't think MCPS is doing enough to educate your kids then do SOMETHING about it.

1) You can have your children use FREE online resources such as Kahn Academy (go to the library and use their computer if you do not have internet access at home).

2) Purchase $7 Singapore math work books at the Teacher Bookstore.  You can also find math work books for cheap at Sams Club and Costco.  Have your kids practice with them and check their answers.  Have them redo problems they get wrong.

3) Make flash cards for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.  Drill them over and over with your kids till they are ingrained.  Kids will fall off a cliff in middle school and high school if they do not know their basic math facts.

4) Read to infants - first graders 20 minutes a day, everyday.  Have your first grader and second grader read to you for 20 minutes a day.  3rd grade on up, they should read AT LEAST 30 minutes a day and all the reading should not be fiction.  Mix it up with non-fiction sources such as magazines and newspapers or non-fiction books at the library.

5) Take the time to see all your children's assessments.  Make appointments at school if they are not coming home.  You would be surprised how little the P is telling you about their performance.  You would be surprised how little the B means about their preparedness for higher education.  Review the tests with your kids so they can learn from their mistakes and so you know what they may need more instruction in.

6) Finally, find out who is running for public office in November and research their stand on educational issues.  If you are unhappy with MCPS, vote for new people onto the Board of Education.  Otherwise your cries of injustice are just sprinkling out to the wind.  The old guard just doesn't care and isn't listening.

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