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[quote=Anonymous]There is widespread disgust at our school regarding the new grade reports. For math, the non-math oriented parents think its too easy but are not as upset if they think their kids are stronger in reading anyway. The STEM career focused parents are very upset.

My prediction is that MCPS will have to change course on math anyway. The county scores keep dropping as the low bar math curriculum will  not meet the higher standards of the new tests that are emerging. This is so ironic considering one of MCPS's talking points is that they are only following Common Core. They really aren't. The end to math acceleration, adoption of constant repetition and limiting the math curriculum have nothing to do with Common Core. This is entirely MCPS attempting to hide the achievement gap by not accelerating the higher performing math students out of the base classes with the kids who score poorly. They are banking on the idea that the high performing students will always score high on tests regardless of the curriculum and that the #s of low performers rising will counter the drop in the middle. The students in the middle are the ones who suffer the most under curriculum 2.0 math. The highest performing students are more aware that math in school is a joke BUT they will get enrichment outside of MCPS anyway.

I do think that MCPS will be forced by parents to change the grading system. There is far more universal outrage about the grade cards. MCPS will be forced to at least identify low Ps and high Ps and deal with the stupidity of ES or do away with it. Teacher comments will be forced back into the grade reports.

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