Your post doesn't make a whole lot of sense, really.

Anonymous wrote:I am the pp and I'm only going to say one more thing because the anger on here is making me lose my faith in people. I think people should consider that Montgomery County schools is educating 70,000 elementary school students this year. They need to come up with a curriculum that serves all of them as well as they can. It seems like they may be choosing to make changes that benefit the vast majority of students, not focusing on that small percentage of parents on here whose kids are 2 years ahead in math.

I am the pp and I'm only going to say one more thing because the anger on here is making me lose my faith in people. I think people should consider that Montgomery County schools is educating 70,000 elementary school students this year. They need to come up with a curriculum that serves all of them as well as they can. It seems like they may be choosing to make changes that benefit the vast majority of students, not focusing on that small percentage of parents on here whose kids are 2 years ahead in math.

Anonymous wrote:I am the pp and I'm only going to say one more thing because the anger on here is making me lose my faith in people. I think people should consider that Montgomery County schools is educating 70,000 elementary school students this year. They need to come up with a curriculum that serves all of them as well as they can. It seems like they may be choosing to make changes that benefit the vast majority of students, not focusing on that small percentage of parents on here whose kids are 2 years ahead in math.

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Anonymous wrote:Naivete is bliss. It's not the recent immigrants and their children who are the MCPS leadership and teachers in our schools. At least in the schools my kids attend the leadership and teachers do not reflect the race and ethnicity of the students being led and taught. There is a tremendous lag. The traditional leadership of MCPS and her schools are run still run by the old generation. They teach an increasing multi-cultural and diverse student body many of whom out perform their own children and thus get the "entitled" spoils: prizes, awards, magnet slots, Ivy slots and other prize college admissions ...

+100000

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Anonymous wrote:The only place I've heard people upset about it is on here.

You clearly didn't attend Starr's Spring Forum on GT education. There was a large room full of very upset parents with legitimate concerns and a pompous and arrogant superintendent who wanted to hear none of them. Instead, he prefered to preach about "social justice".

How about justice for the kids who show up to school everyday, but because they've already met all the benchmarks, are told to read quietly on the rug or to help the other students who are lagging behind. They also have needs, but they are ignored. Where is their "appropriate" education?

Anonymous wrote:The only place I've heard people upset about it is on here.

Anonymous wrote:

Now I'm about to paste in the official summary of Curriculum 2.0. You can all see what it says. It says that our children are being taught to juggle chainsaws. If you don't see it in there, it's just because they are trying to cover it up.

--New internationally driven standards in math, reading, and writing
--Renewed focus on teaching the whole child
--Nurtures skills that build confidence and success
--Engages students beyond reading and math, to spark greater interest
in science, social studies, information literacy, art, music, physical
education, and health
--Integrates thinking, reasoning, and creativity for a lifetime of learning
--Enhances learning by connecting subjects

One critical aspect of curriculum 2.0 that you have excluded (perhaps inadvertently): students that has mastered the content of this curriculum (curriculum 2.0) will no longer be allowed to move up. Even if this mastery is ascertained at the beginning of the school year the child must remain in the assigned classroom and repeat the content. This is particularly germane for any student in mathematics. There are no longer any pathways for advancement even if the child has mastered the math content at the start of the school year.

Anonymous wrote:I for one am really relieved that my kids just missed it.

Yawn.

Anonymous wrote:

Now I'm about to paste in the official summary of Curriculum 2.0. You can all see what it says. It says that our children are being taught to juggle chainsaws. If you don't see it in there, it's just because they are trying to cover it up.

--New internationally driven standards in math, reading, and writing
--Renewed focus on teaching the whole child
--Nurtures skills that build confidence and success
--Engages students beyond reading and math, to spark greater interest
in science, social studies, information literacy, art, music, physical
education, and health
--Integrates thinking, reasoning, and creativity for a lifetime of learning
--Enhances learning by connecting subjects

One critical aspect of curriculum 2.0 that you have excluded (perhaps inadvertently): students that has mastered the content of this curriculum (curriculum 2.0) will no longer be allowed to move up. Even if this mastery is ascertained at the beginning of the school year the child must remain in the assigned classroom and repeat the content. This is particularly germane for any student in mathematics. There are no longer any pathways for advancement even if the child has mastered the math content at the start of the school year.