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[quote=Anonymous][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]

agree.  we supplement a ton with former textbooks and my ES and MS greatly benefit from the textbooks as a reference, as a better and visible sequencing of a topic presented (better than clicking around PDFs posted online and never printing them out), and no holes or leaps in information.

We also don't like that 100% of their books are not read on the chromebook. We were even told this year that the library will be going away and this year is only for "stopping by" if you need something, anytime (because the teacher does group work and circulates around for each 90 minute block so you can walk out anytime). [/quote]

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