Anonymous wrote:My conclusions based on our experience at one MCPS high school located in Bethesda:

-retakes are very rare.
-the curriculum does vary among MCPS schools. This was confirmed by several MCPS teachers at different schools who tutor in math and foreign language.

When your title says "myths", we don't know if you think this is True or False.

Parent of three teens here. I don't have any inside information about curriculum. But my strong impression is that the idea of a standard curriculum is something that relates to ES and MS, and much less so to HS. This is true not only across schools but within schools.

My kid took BC calc this semester and said that the two teachers taught quite different material. Her first semester loaded up on really advanced material not covered in the other class (and had much lower grades). She switched to the other teacher for second semester, who remarked that the kids in the first teacher's course had missed a whole unit.

Likewise, at various times, English teachers were clearly assigning different books (within the same school) based on their own preferences, though I'd imagine (assume) they all had the same learning objectives to cover during the year-- just differing on their preferences of how to get there.

AP classes, generally, are expected to follow the AP curriculum (rather than an MCPS curriculum) and I think schools differ on how that is done (APUSH teachers, for instance, use different textbooks across schools).

So at the HS level, I'd say that learning objectives are probably exactly the same (these are relatively abstract goals for the course) but teachers have a lot of discretion about how to achieve those objectives.

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Anonymous wrote:My conclusions based on our experience at one MCPS high school located in Bethesda:

-retakes are very rare.
-the curriculum does vary among MCPS schools. This was confirmed by several MCPS teachers at different schools who tutor in math and foreign language.

I’m glad that at your one high school in Bethesda that you’ve determined retakes are rare in MCPS.

That’s definitely not true in the DCC high schools.

I’ve had kids at two DCC schools. One allows retakes in AP Calculus on quizzes but not exams. The other doesn’t allow retakes at all in AP Calculus. Neither is in a stem magnet.

That's fine, and even in my kids DCC high school, I have seen similar limitations on retakes for quizzes but not exams. But still, not all or even the majority of students take AP/IB classes. So even if those rules are in place for these courses, they are not in place for the on-level or "honors" (our DCC high school is an honors-for-all school) classes.

Retakes were allowed all throughout my DC's Honors Algebra 2 class. On the one hand, it allowed them to recover from sloppy, stupid mistakes or poor study habits. But it doesn't help prepare them for the higher stakes of higher education.

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Anonymous wrote:My conclusions based on our experience at one MCPS high school located in Bethesda:

-retakes are very rare.
-the curriculum does vary among MCPS schools. This was confirmed by several MCPS teachers at different schools who tutor in math and foreign language.

I’m glad that at your one high school in Bethesda that you’ve determined retakes are rare in MCPS.

That’s definitely not true in the DCC high schools.

I’ve had kids at two DCC schools. One allows retakes in AP Calculus on quizzes but not exams. The other doesn’t allow retakes at all in AP Calculus. Neither is in a stem magnet.

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Anonymous wrote:My conclusions based on our experience at one MCPS high school located in Bethesda:

-retakes are very rare.
-the curriculum does vary among MCPS schools. This was confirmed by several MCPS teachers at different schools who tutor in math and foreign language.

I’m glad that at your one high school in Bethesda that you’ve determined retakes are rare in MCPS.

That’s definitely not true in the DCC high schools.

WJ H Alg 2 retake policy: one per quarter and only on tasks worth a low number of points like exit tickets. Unit test and high point tasks not eligible for retake

Other classes- many assignments not eligible for retake either, seems to be at teacher discretion and rare

Definitely not the case that everything can be retaken.

Anonymous wrote:My conclusions based on our experience at one MCPS high school located in Bethesda:

-retakes are very rare.
-the curriculum does vary among MCPS schools. This was confirmed by several MCPS teachers at different schools who tutor in math and foreign language.

I’m glad that at your one high school in Bethesda that you’ve determined retakes are rare in MCPS.

That’s definitely not true in the DCC high schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My son went to RM and had a Whitman teacher as a tutor.
It was the early years of math 2.0. Tutor said the Whitman math leads were writing their own version of the mcps lessons that they were given. My son was getting straight MCPS.

I don't believe this story because C2.0 was not implemented in HS.

^^
Also, in the early years of C2.0, it was only implemented in ES.