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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best advice you can get on DCUM is do not rely on it for MCPS school advice.  It has a negative vibe that seems to feed on itself.  I am not saying MCPS is fabulous but DCUM does not mirror the experiences of my friends and coworkers.[/quote]

I’d love to hear about your positive experiences.  Please do provide more details of your friends’ and coworkers’ middle school experiences.

Which cluster are your kids in?

Do you feel they had access to a strong curriculum?  Did they have good feedback on their writing so that they have become solid writers by high school?  Is the Science/Math curriculum engaging?  How has Orchestra been handled this year - are they able to meet in person at all?  [/quote]

The little 5 year old I brought to K barely reading at all now reads chapter books and writes paragraphs.  He is on track for algebra in 6th or 7th grade.  I really can't rate his science and ss curriculum but he is interested in both history and astronomy.  He did not have spelling tests (lots of complaints here about that) but I am not a believer in them. He is learning to spell from reading and writing.   I think writing is an area that the large class sizes hurt.  It is the one place I spend some time with my kids on.  Not a lot but we discuss the papers more after they come home and I give additional feedback.  Not there yet but the HSs offer an array of IB, Magnets, AP, Dual Enrollment.

This is obviously a crazy time and if your kids are in person and you are comfortable with that it would be hard to move here right now.  No orchestra.  How are the handling that in NY?  Huge room so the kids can be spread out?  I guess more masking is possible with orchestra rather than band.[/quote]

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