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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The curriculum has been dumbed down. Kids are given a ridiculous rubric. Nobody is actually teaching kids how to write. Plus, mcps abandoned grammar instruction. [/quote]

terrifying. how the hell are these kids supposed to compete in today's world without decent writing and grammar instruction?

this is a big reason why we're paying for K at our preschool program (which luckily offers a true K year). might as well delay the dumbed down curriculum until 1st grade. DH doesn't follow these debates as closely as I do, and thinks DD will be fine next year ... I keep telling him otherwise. it might take her going through 1st grade for him to realize how bad the situation actually is, and get on board with private school. I get that he doesn't want to pay for it, and wants to support public education--I do, too--but what are we supposed to do when MCPS won't even teach grammar? we can fight and fight with the administration, but ultimately they're going to make the boneheaded decisions they want to. [/quote]

You’re basing a lot on some random anonymous poster’s comments.[/quote]

these comments only provide more evidence to back up what I've read in MCPS's own curriculum materials and heard in person from parents with kids in the later ES and MS grades. [/quote]

I’m an English teacher (not mcps) and have been impressed with the work dd has been doing in elementary in mcps. I can’t speak to how middle school will be.

Talk to some more parents, then.

What if your daughter goes to first grade, and your husband thinks it's fine? [/quote]

Then we'll keep our daughter in public school, but I'm doubtful he'll think it's fine. When I mentioned to him that MCPS doesn't include grammar in the curriculum, he was dumbstruck. He keeps thinking that maybe MCPS will change things in the next few years ... haha. [/quote][/quote]

I’m an English teacher (not mcps) and have been impressed with the work dd has been doing in elementary in mcps. I can’t speak to how middle school will be. [/quote]

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