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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I go to drop-off and pickup every day at Oakland Terrace Elementary and talk to moms all around me and no one has ever mentioned disliking the curriculum. I am not the pp, but I agree that DCUM seems like a whole other world than my world on this question. My child has made tremendous progress this year in writing, reading, and math. [/quote]

Who talks about that stuff at drop off and pickup?  I know a lot of parents in our neighborhood who dislike the curriculum, but you only hear them talk about it at PTA meetings on the subject or when they are withdrawing their child from school and going private and even then parents will often say "it just wasn't a good fit" or when you are comparing notes about difficulties with close friends.   [/quote]

I will clarify my answer to say I know a lot of parents in my neighborhood too, and we do speak a lot, and so far none of them have left for private or voiced special concern at PTA meetings about the curriculum at all. I would just like people on here to know that this is not as widespread a complaint as this board may make it appear. [b]I would also be curious whether people are particularly concerned in particular schools or towns[/b].[/quote]

There are no towns in MoCo.  Which is part of the problem, IMO.[/quote]

There are lots of incorporated towns in MoCo but they are not LEAs. A county-wide system of education is set at the state level by MSDE. FWIW, I'm not sure that exchanging a county system for a town system would make things better -- it's really a matter of exchanging one set of problems for another. [/quote]

Not really.  The town-based system I moved from was vastly different.  Parents have a voice in the system, the politics are truly local.

At a bare minimum the county should be split into sections.[/quote]

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