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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a parent who has posted on this forum for years.  Regardless of what MCPS was doing - pre 2.0 and during 2.0 - we have always bought textbooks for Math, Science and Foreign language for all the grades for all my kids,   I am surprised that people did not do that,   Mcgraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, pearson, prentice hall, glencoe. There are textbooks galore. Pick one, any one textbook and teach that to your kid.

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My parents didn't do that for my sister and me in the 90s, and they definitely valued education. I don't remember having any academic supplementation at all. We definitely did extracurriculars (music, mostly, for us, just based on our interests), but no textbook work outside of school.

Have things changed so drastically that this is now a given? [/quote]

The major change since my HS graduation which I saw bring down my whole public school district was No Kid Left Behind, which today is Common Core. Once the federal government started interceding to local city, county and state school districts with their recommended high level standards and tying MONEY to it, things went downhill fast.  2-4 standardized tests a year started, ECs moved to after school since not on the tests, curriculum rewrites for K-8, experienced teachers just retired or left, science and social studies took a back seat, gym/music/art programs and frequency got halved.  Schools went beserk trying to get any which set of kids scoring proficient on these standardized tests because, increasingly, the federal dollars were 10%, 20%, 30%+ of the districts budget.  Oh, and you should see the step function in budgets when Fed $$$$$ get infused in 2000+ and again with CC. Not funny. Incentives all off.

So that's what changed drastically since graduating before 2005. NKLB rolled out in early 2000s. [/quote]

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