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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's great that your kids totally loved 2.0. Johns Hopkins, nearly all the teachers, and many parents have concluded that it utterly failed, so you are the exception.

So go have fun with your super well-educated kids. Over here, we're worried about the real deficiencies in the curriculum. [/quote]
You're confusing people saying that their kids did learn foundational skills with 2.0 with "we love 2.0".  I don't see anyone saying they want to keep 2.0, just that their kids did learn some things. I, and I'm sure most parents, are fine, even happy, with replacing 2.0, we just don't think we wasted money buying into MCPS.  There's a bit of difference there.[/quote]

I'll raise you: Most parents in MCPS are totally clueless about C2.0 or what their kid does on a weekly basis in school.

We asked a neighbor what she thought about the curriculum and she literally said, "Oh, I don't know anything about it. My kids love school."

There you have it, ignorance is bliss. [/quote]

I think that's totally true. They don't want to look under the hood and see what's actually going on. This is why nothing will change. There are too few parents actually examining these things closely. [/quote]

Most parents assume ES and MS is the same as when they went.  But guess what, IT IS NOT. 
No more frequent PE, Art, Music, Science Class, History/Social Studies.
No more handwriting, graded work, text books, ability tracking. 
No more well-rounded, breadth of subject-matter. 
No more ES teachers who have 15, 20, 25 years of teaching experience. 
No more.

No Child Left Behind federalized public schools with monetary carrots for their mismanaged budgets. Curricula were re-written to focus on the TWO STANDARDIZED TEST SUBJECTS:  Reading and Math. 
That's it, your school gets good reading and math standardized test scores, you get a Blue RIbbon, you get a pizza party, you passed PARCC, you get your annual grant money for the district.  
Anything but Math and Reading, fell by the wayside.  Best way to get scores up?  Instead of 1 hour of math a day, let's do 1.5 hours -- there goes PE and science.  Instead of 1 hour of reading, let's do 1.5 hours -- oop there goes full unit on geography. We can water it down and add it to some reading.

Common Core (obama, Duncan) doubled down on Federal-level standards and the attached grant money. Maryland signed up, renamed it Whatever-I-Can't-Remember, hired more admin to re-invest the wheel. MCPS overpaid Pearsons and Erick Lang to customize the C2.0 Curriculum. Make no mistake, redoing standards and curricula every 5-10 years is a very lucrative business for private businesses, universities, and public school administrators and bloat, I mean, staff.

So, if you want your kid to have any resemblance of the K-8 experience you did, check out the parochial and independent schools. HS is it's own storm of APs, crafting a story and college apps.[/quote]

+100

We had state tests back in the day, of course, but they didn't result in this watered down crap of an education. Pathetic.[/quote]

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