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[quote=Anonymous]This has nothing to do with ESOL students or over acceleration. Please do not play into the MCPS excuse game. MCPS collects enough money to teach math. Parents, students, and taxpayers should hold them accountable not offer up random excuses for why its hard to teach math.

The main problem in MCPS is that it lacks any attention toward actual education and teaching. Its all a game of playing with the data, hiding the data, promoting itself and avoiding accountability.

Math is not rocket science. If they would start actually teaching the subject, requiring students to perform on substantive tests throughout the school year rather than trying to guess what's on the standardized test/drill them on this, and support acceleration combined with proving mastery... then they would end up do well on the standardized tests.

Slowing down and increasing repetition (which is what 2.0 does) will not improve scores. It will make them worse. Every kid should receive challenging math work at every grade. They shouldn't get to move on until they master that level. This plan to teach fewer concepts is not about depth at all. Its about repetition and hoping that if  kid doesn't get the first time around they will pick it up in subsequent years in time for the standardized tests. Stupid approaches will yield bad outcomes. Again, not rocket science. [/quote]

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