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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.  [b]He had time to do so because his school experimented with the concept of no homework.  [/b]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]

No homework in elementary school is not an experiment.[/quote]

The principal said that kids needed more time to play outside and should be able to get all the practice they need at school.  Reality check for our neighborhood, most families have two parents who work.  That means there aren't neighbor children to have over for playdates after school.

I personally think the principal made the change when parents started using homework as an example of what was wrong with the curriculum.  The homework clued parents in that standards had been lowered.  When parents complained using the only examples coming home, the homework, then poof - the homework stopped.  This principal no longer works in MCPS by the way.[/quote]

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