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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Again, I will ask - would it be appropriate for some kids to be moved ahead a grade?  Perhaps MCPS does not do allow kids to skip a grade - I just don't know.  But it may be one solution.[/quote]

Perhaps.  Although my kid was unchallenged, and in fact an object of curiosity among other students because of her smarts (the kids would come up to me when I volunteered and asked why DD was so smart numerous times, they told the teacher in the beginning of the year, just to warn her, that DD was smart) I would not want her to grade skip.  She is a 10 year old and putting her with 11 year olds may bring to light maturity issues and the like.  What I wanted was for her to find both intellectual and social peers in once place, kids she had things in common with developmentally and intellectually and socially.  This was one of my biggest goals with applying to the HGC program (that and more challenge, of course).  She was accepted, and finally this year has real friends and has met kids she can understand.  Yes!  It's not all about challenge and grades.[/quote]

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