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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They have amazing opportunities available (immersion, magnet, etc.), but it is largely up to parents to seek those out and the supply is less than the demand.

I was impressed by the level of art instruction in elementary. They seem to teach techniques, as opposed to the art classes I grew up with that were just random craft projects.

I understand they’re replacing the standard curriculum, so I am hopeful that will become something good, but I don’t yet have enough specifics to know rither way. [/quote]

OP here. I'm in DC, but as the kids get older we are wondering if we should stay. After I read for hours on this site about the 2.0 debacle I told my spouse that there was no way I'd move to MoCo now. [b]I understood that 2.0 was going away as of the 2018 JHI report. Is it still in place?[/b] Or what curriculum is in place?[/quote]
C2.0 been gone and it was implemented in ES and MS, not HS.[/quote]

To be replaced with the ‘outstanding’ (sarcasm) Benchmark curricula…the problem for MCPS is it is too big and the part time school board a major target for Texas based textbook sales companies peddling mediocre curricula.  They must simply give small donations for these campaigns and get their votes - quite a good business strategy. [/quote]

Can’t blame it al on the board. The state should have laws that n place about the quality of curriculum used in public schools. Even states like Mississippi are ahead of MD in this regard. [/quote]

Yeah and Louisiana and Florida.  The Louisiana Believes site rates curricula and the state will back a parish if it picks a tier 1 course.  I am so amazed at how DMV can have all these PhDs and yet friggin’ Louisiana does something brilliant like this.  Apparently they even raised ACT scores by 10 points by doing this and offering more teacher guidance.  Then I researched it a little bit and realized it was a private school grad from DMV - St. Albans’ Jon White, now at Harvard.  We get second and third tier education leadership.[/quote]

There’s planning (a curriculum guide) and then there’s execution (what actually gets taught and the pedagogy). Many of my in-laws live in small towns in Louisiana. They are always amazed at what my kids are doing in MCPS compared to their kids. [/quote]

Well, comparing a 3 billion dollar enterprise to a likely million dollar enterprise likely wouldn’t be very productive.  Oh MCPS will dazzle, that’s for sure…[/quote]

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