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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. My kids are 20 and 15 and have been in MCPS since K.

I am very unhappy with the English curriculum, because it's frankly abysmal, but the [b]STEM is great[/b], and better than in any DC area private school.
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That's saying a lot. To must be in a magnet? [/quote]

PP your replied to. No, our kids attend/attended two Bethesda-area high schools. We're scientists and are happy with the STEM offerings of MCPS: it provides a solid start in science. Half our neighbors send their kids to privates like Sidwell and Landon, so I can compare. The MCPS STEM magnet teaches science differently, and in my opinion even better, but we didn't want the commute.

The English curriculum is problematic because teachers have too many students to provide adequate feedback on writing skills. Students don't write enough long form essays, and thus they are not that well prepared for college writing. MCPS also doesn't have students read enough classics, in my opinion as a classics lover. It's all well and good to want to add contemporary works from minority authors, etc, but the point is to contrast and compare with the canon, otherwise all the debates over cultural sensitivities, racism, misogyny, religious and sexual control gets lost on students. Kids these days have a reduced attention span due to the nature of their online world, and need extra training in reading long passages, with rich vocab and complex grammar they would otherwise not encounter in their daily lives.

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