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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Howard will fall too, eventually. But they are behind us by 10-15 years. Families with young kids should look Howard carefully.[/quote]

Only if they adopt the MCPS 2.0 curriculum. The people with older kids upset about the decline are from the W schools where the demographics haven't changed. What has changed in those schools is the curriculum. 2.0 isn't just common core, its MCPS' own special version with a lovely super informative report card. Many parents with higher degrees in STEM were also thrilled when math acceleration abruptly stopped. It was just so great having your child go back and repeat math they did two years earlier. [b]I love how my youngest can extend her childhood by counting pasta all the way up through elementary school. In the past, this was preschool stuff. Now they get to do preschool work in K-3.[/b] [/quote]

That's a bit of an exaggeration (my DC went through 2.0 in 2nd and 3rd), but I love how some people on this forum complain about this, how K is doing stuff that their kids did in preschools, and on the other side of the aisle, people complain how CC standards are too hard for K-3.  It just goes to show, you cannot ever please everybody.[/quote]

Isn't it sad that the once great school district used to be able to challenge both the ES kid who knew math well AND the ES kid who did not in each and every HOME SCHOOL?
Now many home schools cite curriculum 2.0 as the reason they can't move ahead, or supplement, or do tracking until 4th or 5th grade.  
oh, but don't worry, there is a teeny tiny magnet program (in the huge county and student populace) that your 5th grader or middle schooler or high schooler can commute to 45-90 minutes away. [/quote]

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