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[quote]No matter how many times you slay the zombie it just keeps rising from the dead.

You are not repeating a year of curriculum if you have not grasped the matter conceptually. If you were in second grade and did third grade math, move onto third grade the following year under a curriculum that assesses mastering mathematics fundamentaly (which was not stressed under the old system) then you cannot move to fourth grade material until that happens. Its all quite simple but the same zombie idea keeps rising from the dead to be slayed again.

Parents are frustrated because this simple idea they cannot understand. [/quote]"

No, I am frustrated because I don't agree with it. Where is the proof that accelerated children currently in 4th and 5th grade do not grasp the matter conceptually? My child seems to grasp it. The frequent math assessments indicated that he grasped it. The students I watched when volunteering in the math class seemed to grasp it. [b]If you don't believe (or MCPS doesn't believe) that MCPS math testing has validity to assess mastery of concepts, then MCPS should put forward a more successful indicator[/b]. Simply saying that the students didn't grasp the math because this statement fits with 2.0 philosophy is not proof.

If math has been mistaught under the old curriculum, what proof is there that the students doing grade-level work mastered the concepts? They take the same tests . . . they were introduced to the same concepts, only at a different pace . . . do they need to repeat the material from last year and the year before, etc., etc., to prove they fully mastered it before they can advance? [/quote]

New report cards are just starting this year...  You will get the assessment you ask for then.[/quote]

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