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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to interject as reasonably as I can that Montgomery County does need to educate [i]all [/i]of its students as well as it can. It's possible that the old system worked better for the few kids at the very top, and it's possible their mothers are disproportionately represented on this board. But it is really not the county's problem if you want your kindergartener to do 2 hours of challenging homework at night or your 4th grader to be taking algebra. And it's also not the county's problem that you paid a million dollars for your house because you heard it was the best school system ever, and now you find that in fact the school system has to educate all the other kids in the county too.[/quote]

Every child deserves to learn in school, whether she/he's at one end of the scale or the other. EVERY CHILD. With this new curriculum my child is learning very little other than school is boring and he doesn't need to try hard to get the highest marks. How is that MC "educating" him? It's simply setting him up for future failure when he eventually encounters truly challenging work and doesn't want to do it because he's not used to having to think hard.

For me it's not about the homework at all.  My personal preference would be no homework in primary school.  But I do care that all my son seems to be doing in school is worksheets, one stultifying worksheet after the next.  And because he finishes so quickly he's simply given more of them to pass the time and keep him occupied.

--signed, mom who lives in red zone in a tiny house we paid less than $170K for.[/quote]

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