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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents with higher achieving students have just about had it with the dumbing down. Mcps will eventually see more and more higher achieving students pulled out. If more reasonably priced private schools or education co-ops existed,  I'd pull both of my kids out immediately. [/quote]

How is expecting kids to be 1 to 2 grades above grade level dumbing things down?[/quote]

It’s not that.  It’s the fact that they no longer want to keep records.  Keeping it off the report card makes it easier to say that kids are all ‘doing fine’.  Allows MCPS to get out of providing services for kids who might need services.  Allows MCPS to talk about how all the URMS are doing fantastic because there is no data otherwise.[/quote]

same concept as then they ceased final exams in HS. 
And stopped issueing B+s or A- so everyone's final grade rounds up to an A in HS.

all smoke and mirrors, and has the top half of the class scrambling to differentiate themselves, since their hard work getting a 95% correct is an A just like the 86%'er kid. [/quote]

No, it’s not equivalent at all.  Kids learn to read by third and read to learn third grade and beyond.  This is just another way to sweep LDs under the rug.  Mcps doesn’t use evidence based techniques or curriculum to address dyslexia even though 1 in 5 people have some form of it.

People who have means will tutor or do private school.  If people try to fight the system, they will be crushed by MCPS lawyers and this just makes it easier.[/quote]

We are saying the same things.

MCPS created only 2 bands of ranking students: pass/fail, A/B. This both aids them in neglecting to provide LD services to K-3 kids and aids them in saying 50% of their HS is 4.0 unweighted.

We have a family history of dyslexia. From what I see at MCPS, they will not lift a finger to evaluate my child's reading or letter/number comprehension until 3rd grade and that will be a 3-9 month process. Most likely we won't get an IED plan or bethesda school specialist appointed, because MCPS must triage its resources to severe LD and ESOL cases where kids are grade levels behind their age. If we do manage to get an IED for dyslexia, my kid will be pulled out 1 or 2x a week with a small group of other LD kids, of any LD.

We hope to move by then. [/quote]

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