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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they are overcrowded, yes they will be more strict.  It sucks but I recommend that you fight for it.  The curriculum is so ridiculously slow and my child (an Aug birthday) is bored out of her mind.  [/quote]

I truly do not understand this.  What is too slow?  If the child is a precocious reader, is she not allowed to read at her level?  In math, there are things like "make an addition fact family". That can be using 5+2=7 or 326+408=734.  Right?  [/quote]

My child is in the middle of 1st grade and the furthest they have gotten is adding/subtracting up to the sum of 6.  She did that in preschool.  They have not learned any time, money, fractions or simple geometry yet.  It is all VERY basic adding/subtracting with number lines, groups etc....  It is extremely slow.  My oldest was actually EEK in Sept and at that point they had math levels so she was in K and then moved to math2 in grade 1.  So she was adding/subtracting into the thousands and doing fractions and some geometry.  Time and money was taught in K.  She finished 5th doing Math 7 and moved right to Algebra 1 in 6th grade.  They no longer have those options.  ALL kids learn math at the same pace in MCPS until grade 4-5 when they can possibly go into compact math.

As far as reading, they do not encourage you to read past certain levels.  So my 1st grade daughter already hit the end of 2nd grade reading level at M and is not allowed to advance past that until 2nd grade.  Whereas my other daughter's reading group kept going and going and they even moved kids around in groups to keep them accelerating.  2.0 is about learning the basics.  It helps kids that have had no prior learning but it seriously hinders kids that learned in preschool and learn at home.  [/quote]

That is completely different from how my child was taught in McPS in K.  She was a level O in K and had peers in her class.  Teacher did not cap her level.  And in first grade they are adding and subtracting over 100.  Of course only some are.  Many are not, and that is fine too.  Clearly different schools handle this differently!  [/quote]

NP here.  How long ago was your child in K?  We were told at back to school night this year that kids in K would never move past E level and they instead would work on comprehension and writing so they could advance in 1st grade.  I would be royally pissed if other schools advance.  I have a hard time believing that a public school kindergarten had a reading group level that was at a 3/4th grade level.  [/quote]

Last year.   [/quote]

Oh and I'm sorry you've had such a different experience, but what I said was completely true. [/quote]

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