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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]And, as it turned out, we were not doomed. In fact, I've been quite happy with Curriculum 2.0.
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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]

C2.0 may work out in the long run, but it is being rolled out poorly.   An 82% Final Exam Failure for HS Algebra I is not anything to be happy about.

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Don't worry, it did work well.  18% passed.  It all depends on how you look at it.  Maybe more would have passed if the county had their new computers and tablets so the kids could google the answers and chat with each other to get the answers they don't know.  Team work is a positive thing.[/quote]

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