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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to the person who stated they left private schools because the curriculum was weak, and stated that ACPS's curric is strong/good, please detail what you find strong about ACPS' curriculum? I am honestly blown away by this statement, considering the curriculum has changed each year over the course of the past 4 years....thanks.[/quote]

The curriculum (in the honors program at least) is more full -- more material is covered in any one academic year than was covered at either of the two privates where we were.  Challenge level -- the ACPS system clearly does not feel obliged to give every special little snowflake an "Excellent Advanced Mastery" or whatever term means an A in a particular private school.  There's more differentiated instruction in ACPS than in most local privates; neither of our privates would provide any block period or special support for any advanced or supplemental study of any kind (and parents used to pull kids from one of them for this reason, among others).  Math (in particular) -- the entire math curriculum is taught, the homework and testing is more thorough and more frequent, and the kids we know in ACPS are more conversant.  There are numerous -- I mean a lot -- of ex-private parents in our DC's class and there's pretty nearly universal agreement on these.  We also prefer the overall academic environment, which isn't focused on privilege or personal background.

(The year-end SOL testing isn't especially significant and also isn't terribly challenging.  We understand why the substantial numbers of recent-admission ELL kids, as well as special ed kids, and perhaps kids who don't care or have entirely unsupportive home environments would do poorly.  But for average and above-average kids, they don't seem terribly meaningful.  So we're disregarding those even though DC has done well on them).  [/quote]

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