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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]2.0 is a disaster. Its a bunch of poorly hobbled together and disorganized mediocre interpretations of what MCPS thinks will be on PARCC. Its 100% about gaming the new test and they've done a pretty piss poor job in the process. Common Core is just a standard. How and what is taught is all on the idiots in MCPS. The poor teachers can barely get a lesson plan together from this junk much less figure out to work around and above it to provide appropriate level work to many of the kids in the system. They are just trying to survive.[/quote]

2.0 is creating a generation of kids that are learning how not to achieve. These aren't traditional underachievers but normal and above average kids who if given even a little motivation in school or presented with an expectation to do more would be learning at a much deeper level. Its actually smart behavior to only expend the necessary energy to complete a mundane task. You're not going to use calligraphy to fill out your DMV form. Academic work in MCPS is the equivalent of filling out a DMV form nothing more. [/quote]

Is that what you tell your child? "Eh, just do enough to get by. That's the economically rational thing to do." It's not what I tell mine.[/quote]

What you tell your child during the 10 to 20 minutes you hopefully talk about their school day, is not nearly as important as the 5 hours they are in school every day.   They are in school for 5 hours, that is where the mediocrity get implanted like the previous posters have superbly described.  I don't know if you are blessed with little robot kids who do exactly as told, but yes my kids (and one is in a HGC) will do as much as it takes to get a P because there are some nebulous expectations for an ES which they will never achieve.

I love it when people blame the parents.  When my kids were little and not supposed to keep score in soccer, they all kept track of the score.  Even when told not to, that it was all for fun, they all kept score.  No parent was out there telling them that they were behind in goals, or what the score was.  It's intrinsic in the human psyche to seek positive reinforcement for behavior.

Think back to when you were a child, think if you consistently put in more effort, rewrote and fine-tuned your writing assignments and you received the same grade as a kid that just submitted his first pass.  I know I would have felt like a pogue to put forth extra effort if I was going to get the same P grade.  There is no motivation to excel, and so kids will not excel, which is what this school system wants.

They will close the acheivement gap by bringing the higher performing kids down, our kids are a big social experiment.

Kids compare grades they always have and always will.  You can spout that PC crap about do your best, but that message means less and less as they get older and develop their own independence and motivations.[/quote]

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