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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't view education as being confined to school.  You just can't.   Or your kids will suffer.   I get that there are things you want to improve in the County schools.   But I think you need to let go of not supplementing.  [/quote]

Op here.

Here's the thing: I went to private school (Catholic), and I received an excellent education. My parents didn't supplement...because they didn't need to.

We all know that 2.0 is crummy. The thread on former mcps students being so far behind when they move to other districts is appalling. The 2.0 defenders say that moving slowly and forcing kids to jump through multiple steps is better for them, but that simply isn't true. When will they admit their investment in 2.0 was a mistake?

The fact that parents must supplement is proof positive that mcps is subpar. [/quote]
You can't compare how you were educated with the way kids should be educated today. It's an entirely different world. Tech heavy, spell check on every word processing software, heck even google will fix your errors when searching.

When I was in school in the 70's/80's, we learned by rote.  That won't fly today.  Kids need to focus on critical thinking skills, not diagramming sentences or learning math by rote.[/quote]

If you learned by rote back then, I would say your school was unusual.  Those were the days of open classrooms, new math and abandonment of phonics.  Despite the fact that everyone talks about "critical thinking skills" now does mean that kids learn to think critically. First, kids DO need to just learn (or memorize) some things, including the basic skills AND then they need content knowledge on which to practice their thinking skills.  In other words, they need to have something to think ABOUT, make connections, etc.  It is apparent that many kids graduating today think that they are very educated, but they have little ability to form well-reasoned arguments, inch deep knowledge of history and the big ideas that formed the western tradition, very little understanding of our government, little grounding in grammar and strong writing, etc.  Math is up in the air, as we are experimenting; science not sure either.  Along the way, we also abandoned the idea that for some kids, vocational training is necessary for their survival.  I'd say that overall, we are not better off now.[/quote]

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