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I agree. This is why we’re considering private. I expect to have to help my kid with homework sometimes and with study skills, but I don’t have the time or skills needed to fill huge gaps in her education. [/quote]

What huge gaps?[/quote]

You must be new to MCPS.[/quote]

Nope. I've got a kid in HS and a kid in MS. The only huge gap I've encountered was under the old math curriculum, when they skipped my older kid over two years of math, so the kid couldn't do long division.[/quote]

This was my kid too.  Went from 2nd grade math to 4th to 6th.  Then repeated 6th.  Never got long division.  Oh the good old days!  Nonetheless he is in AP Math now and ok.[/quote]

My youngest is pretty much 2.0 native and not much for long division.  He may understand how it works but never had much reinforcement in school.  When confronted with division, his preferred method is to feel his way through, only he makes an error some 20 percent of the time.  I tell him, picking up a pencil would be quicker and more reliable, but nope.  And, I did push long division practice summer after 4th.  My impression is 2.0, never settles into a *best* method and doesn't really revisit long division later since calculators are encouraged as soon as the unit is over.

I don't know who thinks Algebra has improved since the rollout year.  My oldest was in that year and three years later not much had changed when next DC arrived.  I don't hear enough talk about replacing the HS sequence, but current MCPS Alg 1, Geometry and Alg 2 are all a cursory hodgepodge of half baked concepts with no texts as back up. It's too late for my family, but there's plenty of room for improvement.  I didn't see pre-2.0 HS math, maybe it was just as bad, but if 2.0 was supposed to fix something it did not.[/quote]

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