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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm pretty sure there are just 2 of us on here yelling at each other now, so maybe I'll just tell you my perspective. I am a local, as you say, with a kindergartner. We live in a neighborhood with a lot of Americans born here, a lot of Latino immigrants, and some Ethiopian and Asian immigrants as well. [b]In my own years in high school and college I saw too many friends terribly burned out by being accelerated by their ambitious parents, beyond their own wishes.[/b] And I also take a particular interest in the immigrants in my neighborhood, who tend NOT to be the high performers you are talking about, and who are often low-income and learning English. So all these things add up to me coming to the defense of 2.0 right now. I'm sure my attitude could change someday, and I don't know what it's like to be you, whoever you are out there. Maybe we can learn something from each other.[/quote]

Do you think prohibiting math acceleration for all able, proficient, and willing kids demonstrating mastery in MCPS is the solution to your childhood observations?  Sounds straight out of Mao's communist China and the RED book.  I would not want may taxes supporting such policies.  I do not think you can generalize your anecdotal childhood observations, perceptions and opinions to how to educate individual students in our County.  For every "burned out" kid you claim to have witnessed I have also seen many go from boredom in school, to class disturber, school trouble maker, dismissal and explusion for lack of intellectual and academic challenge.  Unless you can provide more compelling data and evidence than these anecdotes, that able, capable and willing kids are harmed (or burned out) by advancement in math you have done little to convince me such draconian policy is necessary.  School policy should not be founded on anecdotes.  School policy should be evidence-based. Some will argue some MCPS kids in past ran into troubles with knowledge gaps but this was also due to another foolish policy mandating a percentage 9up to 40 percent) of a given class needs to be accelerated in math.  The problem here is with mandates -- not the benefits of acceleration for appropriate students. [/quote]

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