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Many parents who were raised in this country have started to protest 2.0 Math, because they have realized that it is inferior to pre 2.0 Math.  These parents at the very least want the standard of curriculum that they themselves had when they were students.

[b]For many parents who were not raised in this country, we were protesting even the pre 2.0 Math, because we were used to even more rigorous Math curriculum in our own birth countries.   We were supplementing even before 2.0, because  we too at the very least want the standard of curriculum for our children, that we grew up with.[/b]

Yes, it is more toil for the parents now because they are managing jobs, households as well as our kid's education. We can protest all we want but before there is any impact, our kids would be out of the MCPS system.  So, we all do what we have to do.[/quote]

If you were raised in an Asian country, I give no credence to this complaint.  In a lot of the high achieving Asian countries, kids go to afterschool tutoring for hours everyday, and most on Saturdays, too.

If you were raised in a heavily socialist, homogeneous European country, I also don't give credence to your argument because you grew up with a lot of social benefits that most of the kids in the US don't have.

I'm sure you didn't expect the US to be like your home country.  The US has a lot of challenges in educating kids that most other countries don't have.[/quote]

Were you raised in an Asian or European country? Probably not.  Neither was I raised in US, so I too did not know what to expect. One thing I was certain about was that US being the land of dreams and opportunities  and a wealthy nation would have a very high standard of education.  Certainly higher than what I was raised in. While materially there is a huge difference in what we were used to and what kids in this country take for granted - nice temperature controlled buildings, playground and equipments, textbooks provided by schools, free meals for poorer children etc. - in terms of curriculum, instruction and rigor there was not much vitality.

I am not saying that I came here and  became critical  of BOE (because that is what we do on DCUM, anonymously),  but just that,  the supplementing at home began for most people like us, once we realized what we had here. We are grateful for the resources here, but are disturbed by the lack of awareness and willingness to pay heed, when someone from a different nation says that WE (please recognize that I include your child and my child in this collective "we") are not competitive in the global market.

Immigrants like me do not demonstrate in front of BOE that the system should be changed. We have quietly supplemented at home and shared this on this forum.  The amount of ridicule and criticism we get for sharing this here is amazing. Other nations are preparing their kids better than we do here.  And with all our resources we can do better for ALL children.

It also may be that coming from not very open societies, we are used to the way the powers-that-be can screw you.  So, we were able to immediately recognize how very bureaucratic and inefficient the education system here is, and we have learnt to work within this system by filling in the gaps ourselves.
You do not give credence to my complaints because you think that it is not an apples to apples comparison? Regardless of what challenges the US has - different races, different languages , different immigration status, different SES and different education level of parents - in some areas (STEM specifically) US is lagging behind. If you are so thin-skinned that you cannot face this then there is nothing more I can say. [/quote]

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