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Really?  Cause that's what it seems like at Bannockburn Elementary School.[/quote]

I'm sorry to read this.

(It does suggest to me, however, that the idea that the best schools in MCPS are in Bethesda is wrong. My kids' school has a FARMS rate and an ESOL rate both over 20%, and my experience of Curriculum 2.0 has been great.)[/quote]

Again, at the risk of putting too fine a point on this, but schools that haven't been high-achieving will (of course) have a better experience with 2.0.  Schools that were high-achieving with a lot of students in advanced/enriched classes are the ones losing with 2.0.  This speaks to the fact that 2.0 is damaging the higher-achieving students by taking away opportunities and pathways to advance beyond the basic level.  2.0 has always been about bringing up the bottom and keeping the top from thriving -- that should trouble everyone.

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2.0 is not about keeping the top from thriving. How would keeping the top from thriving ever benefit MCPS? No, really?

And why do you assume that my school is not a high-achieving school?  Just because it doesn't have a FARMS rate <5%?

Or that I am unfamiliar with high-achieving students? I have one kid in an HGC, and another kid in our home school (pre-HGC grades) who is a high achiever.

I don't know anything about Bannockburn ES, besides what's on the at-a-glance page. But if you're having problems, I suggest you start with the teachers and the principal.[/quote]

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