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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And if your source is from 2019, it’s irrelevant. COVID revealed to a ton of parents how awful MCPS really is.

Moreover, only 17% of the people contacted for the 2019 survey responded.

https://moco360.media/2019/10/03/parents-pleased-with-mcps-survey-shows/[/quote]

And yet they keep sending their kids to MCPS schools, while they themselves do little to affect any change or want to increase taxes to pay for their champagne wishes.[/quote]

What choice do most of us have?  Not everyone is wealthy or living in a "good" school district.  The only "affordable" privates are Catholic schools and that's only for elementary.  Only a few Catholic schools are remotely welcoming to non-Catholic/non-Christian families.  The rest of us cannot afford $50-60K privates, and there are very few privates let alone non-religious ones.

And, the privates don't have the same math track come MS/HS.[/quote]

Every private I’ve seen has MS/HS math tracks.[/quote]

They aren't equal.  Of course they have MS/HS math tracks but often Algebra isn't started till 8th, or even 9th, vs. MCPS is 6/7th grade.[/quote]

And it’s been shown that pushing kids too fast in math isn’t always appropriate. It’s not as though MCPS kids are excelling in math; far from it. So this wouldn’t be what I brag about.[/quote]

This! I have a friend who teaches math at a state university. He says it would be better if middle/high schools slowed down and spent more time on Algebra instead of pushing kids through at young ages. The number of remedial Math classes at his university is growing.[/quote]

The same thing with reading. I like that my daughter’s K-8 considers reading “a slow burn” that stretches from K through 2nd. I saw firsthand how pushing her too fast severely undermined her confidence. When we pulled back and really took it step by step, her confidence got SO much stronger.

It’s not all about acceleration. The pedagogy simply doesn’t support it. [/quote]

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