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[quote=Anonymous]10:17 again.

10:44 - your kids were going to be guinea pigs for Core Curriculum no matter what.  The school system had to implement it.  The good news is that if MCPS wants to sell it, they need to make it so good that others will buy it.  That means it can be adapted, and from what I hear from my daughter's teacher, the teachers are able to comment.  They had been sharing content that was working via an electronic bulletin board of some sort, but teachers have stopped doing this because they are afraid MCPS will include the content in the package for sale without compensating the teachers.  That's the biggest issue I see with it being sold.

As for taxpayers bearing the expense, you would be bearing the expense anyway because there is no choice but to implement Common Core.  I don't see why you can't understand that there was going to be a change no matter what.

As for Starr, he's picking where Weast left off.  This stuff was well into play BEFORE Starr got here.   It didn't start when Starr got here.  It wouldn't be in full roll out to the schools if it just started with Starr.  My guess is that the BOE picked Starr because they felt he would do a good job of continuing what Weast had started.  Again, you should be asking the BOE.

As for differentiated education, I don't know.  I have to believe it is still there in a different form.  I only have a first grader, so I don't know what was there before.  I am happy with what is happening at my school, who incorporated portions of 2.0 into the K curriculum last year.   As the PP said before, a lot depends on how your principal views the world. Perhaps you should start by asking him/her instead of asking me.

I also need to point out that any school system that has 37% of kids testing as GT has standards that are set too low.  I am not saying I agree with 2.0, but I am willing to see it play out.  
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