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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a parent who has posted on this forum for years.  Regardless of what MCPS was doing - pre 2.0 and during 2.0 - we have always bought textbooks for Math, Science and Foreign language for all the grades for all my kids,   I am surprised that people did not do that,   Mcgraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, pearson, prentice hall, glencoe. There are textbooks galore. Pick one, any one textbook and teach that to your kid.

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My parents didn't do that for my sister and me in the 90s, and they definitely valued education. I don't remember having any academic supplementation at all. We definitely did extracurriculars (music, mostly, for us, just based on our interests), but no textbook work outside of school.

Have things changed so drastically that this is now a given? [/quote]

Yes. Times have changed.  I did not grow up with supplementation. Most people took SAT without prep. Studying for a few weeks for SAT was considered a whole lot of prep.  Kids who basically did their assigned work (homework) were successful.  US was a superpower. Most factory jobs were here.  No jobs were being outsourced to other countries.  No obs were going offshore or near-shore (Canada).   US was attracting talent from around the world leading to a brain-drain crisis in other countries.

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Did you graduate from high school in the 1970s?[/quote]
More like the 1940's  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  -- Anyone suggesting that factory jobs are the future is living in a time warp. Geez people.[/quote]

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