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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We have a neighbor who chose Georgetown Prep over the magnets.

To weigh the options and compare, you actually need to tour to see what is available. MCPS has dropped the ball while trying to write their own curriculum.[/quote]

1. The curriculum fiasco is a catastrophe at the lower grades, but if we're talking about high school here, it's less of a problem because the curriculum was far less impacted by Erik Lang and his band of merry incompetents.

2. While I don't doubt your story about your neighbor, admission to the Blair magnet is highly competitive. No one should plan on getting in, or assume their child would have been admitted, as some others on this thread are doing. However, I'm not surprised that a young man who would be competitive for SMAC would also be competitive for an elite private. I hope they had a good experience. [/quote]

Incoming high school freshmen were the first guinea pig test group for 2.0.  My child got through because we supplemented with workbooks and extra assignments at home.  He had time to do so because his school experimented with the concept of no homework.  Things did not improve much in middle school.  He had about 1/4 the amount of homework than my older child because it just wasn't being assigned.

High school students who just graduated could have been affected in Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2.  Those were also rewritten.  My child who just graduated was part of the first guinea pig students for those courses as well in which central office was literally writing the courses while school was going on.  It was a disaster in which our school staff rebelled and taught the old curriculum which did not match up with the central office tests.  We hired tutors to get through those courses.[/quote]

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