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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid's counselor put our kid in honors calculus and would not let him switch out. Kind of sucked because he had never been in honors math before and ended up with a "D". Besides the grade, our kid was miserable and spent a lot of hours just trying to keep up. 
We talked to the teacher about it and she said straight up that she thought he should have transferred out and she OK'd the paperwork but the counselor would not sign off because it would hurt the numbers.

One of my friends is a long time math professor and she said the American educational system seems designed to demonstrate endless upward progress on the numbers while churning out kids who hate "math" and seem determined to avoid at all costs in their real life.[/quote]

This is exactly the kind of story that would be great to send to the Board of Education, if you'd be willing to?  Perfect illustration of the problem with evaluating schools based on this metric, and I think it is actually totally within the realm of possibility for the Board to push MCPS to change what metrics it is using to report back on its progress to the Board and the community.[/quote]

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