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[quote=Anonymous]Mr. Starr and his cronies have created the problem with families and their schools and teachers.

When my kids come home with straight As and do very little homework why in the hell would you not expect me as a parent to inquire about the lack of challenge and ask for advancement.

As a parent I will not be satisfied with my child bringing home stright As semester after semester.  There is a significant problem with this approach.  The child is not challenged.  As a wannabe mathematician, if all you do for your ego is simple problems over and over again to get an A  then it is time to move on to more difficult problems!

MCPS and teachers are sending young kids the wrong message when up to 80% of their students are on the honor roll and up to 30% have straight As.  Only a foolish superintendent, principals and teachers would be alarmed by the clamour for increasing challenge, enrichment and advancement in the educational curriculum.

The extraordinary number of MCPS honor roll and straight A students implicitly and explicitly demand a more challenging curriculum and opportunities for subject advancement for challenge.  You will set these MCPS students up for failure down the road when they enter the real educational world (top flight colleges and universities with top flight professors) who increasingly claim these kids can't write and argue cogently and have poor mathematical preparation.  This is what I hear at the next level.  But, how can this be so these kids have been honor roll super stars from middle school through high school?

MCPS has created the public furor and demands for challenging education through their watered down curriculum and intense grade inflation marked be honor roll distinction (like a tin trophy or ribbon) for almost every child.  This is a recipe for future disaster.

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