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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In critiquing 2.0, I am seeing the 'my child is bored' vs 'my child is fine' arguments.  Parents extrapolate to the whole system based on their limited experience with the kids around them.   We have to recognize that for various reasons some kids are ahead of other kids.  The question is whether it is acceptable to hold kids back when you have the resources to move them ahead.

I have two kids.  One is doing fine in 2.0.  My older child would have been bored silly.  For those of you that don't have an outlier kid, either SN or HG, please don't tell those that do to suck it up.  It is not about trying to get our kids into Harvard or get more resources .  It is about watching all of your child's natural curiosity slowly sucked out of them due to boredom.   In pre-school my one child wanted to be a scientist and we worked on experiments together. He loved reading, math and going to preschool. In K-2, which did not differentiate,  this child used to come home and scream that he hated school (but liked his teachers) and that school was boring.

C2.0 is a disaster  because it forces all these different learners into one square hole.    Aside from that, I still can't believe how it bypassed parent input and how it is being rolled out so quickly without any kind of piloting.   It may get changed and modified over 10 years, but this cohort of kids is getting short-changed.

I will vote against this BOE.[/quote]

This is exactly how it is in our house -- one child who is perfectly bright, normal kid who will do fine with 2.0.  The other an academic outlier who is starting to hate school because "it's so boring."   Why is it so hard or terrible to group such kids together and give them the advanced material they crave and can handle?   If you had 2 kids taking piano lessons together and one was just learning to play "Mary had a Little Lamb" and the other could already play "Moonlight Sonata," do you tell the advanced player she can only practice the beginner pieces?  Not a perfect comparison but this is what I see so far in the math class especially.[/quote]

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