“When we got the QuickNotes the other day, MCPS included in it the charts that actually show in each class I think all the way up through Calculus what the particular content was that was either omitted work or condensed or as not included as part of the curriculum this school year,” said Kimberly Glassman, a mother of three referring to the omitted content for elementary school mathematics.
“So looking to my own kids, my seventh grader was the most impacted. It was something like 57 percent of the content was covered and the remainder was not covered in the school year and I believe the idea is that in future math classes those are concepts that we circle back into the curriculum so they will get it in the future.”
Other parents noted that basic math lessons such as measurements and date that include telling and writing time and differentiating U.S. currency, had been omitted.
“When I was looking at math curriculum and saw that the first graders didn’t get the difference between a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter and didn’t learn how to tell time on the hour and a half hour, that really struck me because those are basic life skills,” said MCPS parent, Jessica Hasson.
Some parents said that with just one month left in the school year, they didn’t find about the removed content until recently. It was a finding that sparked a long discussion on social media among many MCPS families.
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