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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No I'm not, we went up to Miramonte HS in the Orinda, CA city which is in the Acalanes district.

Not sure what you are really trying to argue. I'm comparing experiences at west county MCPS school districts to other top public school districts in the country. And I'm here to tell you MCPS doesn't pass muster.

If you want to learn something about K-12 education read through all their websites. Light years better than MCPS. Still have textbooks. Clear curriculum and materials on website.

If MCPS wants east county to keep dragging it down, then continue what you are doing. Right now you can't even offer west county a viable nor comparable education to other top state public K-12s. Not even comparable. [/quote]

Are you kidding? CA schools are kind of terrible. They don't even teach algebra there until the 10th grade.[/quote]

generally agree, MCPS is about 10 years following it.

however https://www.acalanes.k12.ca.us/ was not.

Our family can't make heads nor tails out of MCPS and we've been here since January trying it out. You all deserve better. [/quote]

It's really a separate thread.  But MCPS math curriculum is trash.  It's not simply that your DC's teacher is being held up by slow students.  Even at full pace the class is a stripped down version of what algebra should be.  [/quote]
With the advent of Common Core, CA schools do not allow MSers to take Algebra, and the rate of MSers there taking advanced math has dropped.

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-algebra-segregation-20160323-snap-htmlstory.html

https://www.kqed.org/news/10610214/san-francisco-middle-schools-no-longer-teaching-algebra-1

IMO, MCPS with all its problems (and I have been a huge "whiner" on here about the new magnet acceptance process) is still better than most of CA's public school system.

I used to live in CA until a few years ago, grew up in LAUSD, and still have friends there who have kids in MS. [/quote]

Yeah, I know nothing about current CA schools but I took Algebra in So Cal in 8th grade back in the day and MCPS Algebra, DC took last year in 7th, barely touches on the topics that class covered.  My older DC didn't get to many topics until pre-calc in, wait for it, 10th grade.  They've just relabeled things, MCPS has re-named things, sounds like CA actually gets there sooner.

The problem with the magnet whiners, is no matter how we divvy up those 100 (200) slots, everyone else gets crap math.  [/quote]

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