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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So your neighbor has a fifth grader, and heard bad things about Curriculum 2.0, and therefore sent her first-grader to private school? What is your neighbor's first-hand experience with Curriculum 2.0? What is your first-hand experience with Curriculum 2.0?[/quote]

Not the PP but why should the neighbor suffer through experiencing MCPS/2.0 first hand? Do you eat at restaurants with terrible Yelp reviews even though the owner claims its wonderful? No, you would go a restaurant with a better reputation and have a far more likely chance of getting food than experiencing the bad one for yourself.

If the neighbor can afford private and her neighbors are sharing bad things about MCPS - which seems to be confirmed not only here but in the Post, any GT list, special needs list, petitions on change.org, and a whole lot of others - it would be smart to go private. [/quote]

One thing I've learned from reading Yelp reviews is that people like to complain. Similarly, one thing I've learned from reading DCUM is that people like to complain. Before my younger child started school, I read about Curriculum 2.0 on DCUM, and I thought, "OH MY GOODNESS WE ARE DOOMED! DOOMED!! DOOMED!!!" But since private school is not an option for us, off my younger child went to public school. And, as it turned out, we were not doomed. In fact, I've been quite happy with Curriculum 2.0.

If the neighbor wants to spend a lot of money to send her younger child to private school, based on some stuff she heard from other people, that's her prerogative, of course. [/quote]

2.0 works for some children.  The problem is it does not work for all children.  My child has some delays and his thinking will not work with that teaching style.  He is very bright and works best in a traditional teaching style.  When we spoke with the public school, we were very disappointed.  There is no way he can be in a large classroom with 25 kids and no supports.  Since we have always done private services, we do not have an IEP so by the time we could get one in place, which would take months at best, he would have failed by then.  A small private school is our only option.  We aren't sure fully on how we will afford it but at this point we have no choice.  If he was on target, it probably would be fine but he cannot do word problems (he can do addition and subtraction) but that kind of logic thinking is difficult right now.  And, if he went into special education, he'd face the same challenges as they use the same 2.0 and he'd be bored as he is academically doing well prior to entering school.  We spent a lot of time looking at the curriculum, got workbooks typical of the work to try it with our child and it was a disaster.  Give him Kumon and he does great.  Give him 2.0 and its a struggle.  I do not have an issue with 2.0 as I think it has its strengths but that should not also take away from traditional teaching styles and the basics (i.e. we don't need iPads/computer, we need teachers and aides working on basic math, reading, and handwriting skills - none need an iPad for that in school).[/quote]

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