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[quote=Anonymous]Has anyone read the Kirwan Commission report?  dls.maryland.gov/policy-areas/commission-on-innovation-and-excellence-in-education#!   Read it and weep. Serious cognitive dissonance going on when I mention this report to my neighbors. Folks, even though you pay a lot of taxes this includes your students. (Basically Maryland students rank in the 30s -- and about 2 years behind their international peers).  Nearly half of MCPS's fourth graders read below grade level.  (Of course they would -- this county is a 'whole word' county -- no phonics going on here even though the evidence is pretty overwhelming.  Reading 'wars' are over and phonics won.).  For the folks on the Western side of the county, let's be real -- the reason your kids are doing better than their socioeconomically lower peers is in large measure that you pay for C2, Kumon, Lindamood-Bell, Mathnesium, Abacus Math et al. when the instruction dips but you don't want to admit it. These 'test preps' are literally in every shopping center on the West side!  I would be much happier if we simply paid for low income kids to get private tutoring...than in joining Erlich's social engineering joy ride to impress the New York Times' Editorial Board.  It would be much better to spend the Kirwan money that may be coming our way than in more poor instruction in the schools. (Although given that MoCo is the cash register for the rest of the state -- and dismal representation we have in Annapolis -- it is questionable how much we will receive in funds.) Curriculum is everything and MCPS' decision to stick with a sub-optimal one for so long (including the Discovery Education scandal two years ago) really did it for our family.  Also, while we are at it, the best curriculum in the nation the past twenty-five years was developed in Massachusetts -- and MCPS (when they finally got a chance to select a new one) picked... New York's. So they can look look good I'm guessing?  Nice one, Rockville -- the PR folks really are the only ones doing their job well over there.  [/quote]

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