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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster who said that it was mostly private parents bashing  MCPS on this thread was actually right. [/quote]

While there are some private parents on this thread, as evidenced by the whole It's Academic debate, I think the early bashers were mostly MCPS parents.

Personally, my kids attended MCPS K-12.  I'm a basher because I think the basic curriculum is terrible, especially in elementary.  (It does get better in higher grades with AP/IB classes.  Textbooks help a lot.)  I do think the magnet classes are great.[/quote]

It sounds like your kids have graduated high school. How do you know what elementary students are doing? Are you a teacher in mcps? [/quote]

I was poster 02/10/2018 04:27 on page 17.

My kids went through elementary school here.  I served on a curriculum committee and have talked to teachers through the years.  The curriculum has changed some, so I included an MCPS link detailing the changes to curriculum in my original post.

The biggest problem with the curricum department is their tendency to devalue content.  While I agree that students should practice the higher order thinking skills that MCPS prioritzes, I feel that systematic content instruction is vital as well.

Further, I feel that producing and selling our curriculum is a huge conflict of interest.  Rather than having subject matter experts produce a textbook, which is professionally edited and reviewed by other experts, before being released, we have a generalized curriculum department which I believe is augmented by MCPS teachers.  Rather than buying a textbook that has proven effective elsewhere, our kids are the guinea pigs for whatever is produced.  Moreover, in the past, the curriculum which was developed on a rolling basis was sometimes provided to teachers only a few days before they had to start using it.  Hopefully the delivery schedule has improved.  Finally, with a commercial textbook, students have a resource they can use, with all the extra features of a textbook (index, glossary, sample questions, etc.)  Our students have assorted hand-outs and notes from class which is not only a less effective resource for them, but also makes it difficult for parents to review the quality of the curriculum.  [/quote]

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