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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, the Common Core is not a curriculum. The Common Core is standards. It is up to the state and the school district to write the curriculum.

Second, is our goal that not every kid in the classroom gets to the proficient level?

Third, if your previously great MCPS ES has gone from an enriching challenge to a rigid drilling bureaucracy after the adoption of Curriculum 2.0, Curriculum 2.0 is not responsible for this. If it were, the same thing would have happened at every school. And it hasn't. [/quote]

To answer your erroneous points:
1) yes, the CC is a standard, not a curriculum, but it forms the basis for the watered-down-lower-common-denominator curriculum that is written to adhere to it
2) yes, I would love to see every child in the classroom reach proficient (whatever, exactly that means), but I would not do so at the expense of the high-achieving students
3) the reason our "previously great" MCPS ES has gone downhill (perhaps more than other ESs) is precisely because we were operating at a high level (farther to fall, so to speak)

Don't be fooled, the CC is the starting point to an erosion of the public school system in this country.  It is about bringing it down to a sub-par level in the name of equality of education.  Unintended consequences, indeed.[/quote]

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