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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I[b]'m just guessing that the way it was done before was not working for some students.[/b] Maybe not those with parents on here. [b]I don't think anyone is threatened by bright children; MoCo needs its brightest kids to continue to do well.[/b] I think it's more likely that the change was made specifically to help the average kids rather than specifically to hurt the advanced kids. But given the degree of resistance, I wouldn't be surprised if the policies are modified over time to allow more advancement.

I'd really like to get down to specifics. When I was a kid, the "advanced" math was doing Algebra I in 8th, Geometry in 9th, Algebra II in 10th, Trigonometry in 11th, and Calclulus in 12th. That's all that was offered for advanced kids. Now, that old "advanced" route is apparently the new standard for all kids in MoCo. How bad can this be?[/quote]

If it was not working for some students is the appropriate fix to demote those students (return them back to their grade level) or punish the other able students by doing away with the pathway or taking away this option?  MCPS is not addressing the root cause of this problem by taking away the pathway for able and willing high performers.  This begs the true motive here.

If the bright kids are increasingly not the kids of the leadership or MCPS establishment their success is indeed a threat and the leadership will hatch or concoct policies and to reestablish the balance and make their kids look good.  If the kids of the MCPS leadership and establishment were indeed, by and large, these able high performers this policy would never have been entertained.

Kids are smarter and intellectually quicker than you and I were 30 to 50 years ago (as it should be).  There are kids in Algebra 1 in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade.  The internet, online classes and computer programming discrete mathematical logic are evening the playing fields.  There is a reason why the landscape of high performers today looks alot different than 30 or 40 years ago.  This slow change is indeed threatening to the teachers and leaders in Montgomery county.  These teachers and leaders are increasingly teaching children of a different ethnic and racial mix that are out performing the traditional high performers of yesteryear.  When the MCPS teachers and leadership start to reflect the backgrounds of the children in the MCPS schools this foolish policy will disappear.[/quote]

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