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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are doing their part. They work hard, so I feel guilty that the adults are failing them . [/quote]

You can't have people teaching advanced classes that don't have the background to teach the content. No one should be teaching high school math without either an undergraduate or graduate degree in math or a related subject (physics etc.). Having subject matter expertise is the only way that a teacher can be a competent teacher. You can't have a surface understanding of a topic to be teaching at the high school level or just reading the answer key. This is part of the reason that education programs in this country are being lambasted. Education pedagogy is fine, but subject matter expertise and the ability to communicate with teens is very important. We literally had a teacher a few years back tell parents that he would be learning the material (AP Calc) along with the students. Completely UNACCEPTABLE![/quote]

This is all true and what I find extremely frustrating.  Even if the HS level course is appropriately taught as a handful of problem solving techniques, the teacher needs to be modeling more advanced skills like stating definitions and theorems concisely, because mimesis is a large part of how students eventually learn these skills.  This is where HS is really loosing ground and why some o[b]f these classes do more harm than good[/b] (and really these types of omissions start in MS level classes).[/quote]

Yes, at the honors level this is the case. I simply do not trust MCPS to teach advanced math. It does end up being a more harm than good. My dd who took honors geometry and got Ds and worse, switched to regular geometry and started getting 99s on tests. This is a problem. She also said that she was understanding the material better. My other dd is more talented in math, but even so, she will take on grade geometry. [/quote]

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