MCPS to Parents, 'Curriculum Resources are NOT of Interest to You'

At all the parent meetings at the announced pilot schools where the new curriculum was to be used this Spring, the health teachers did not mention or show the attendees the Teacher Resources. When asked about them, the standard answer was they were ‘for the teachers only to use and not of interest to the parents’.

So the parents who took the time and had the interest in their children's education to come to these 'parent meetings' never even knew about the resources that were used to create and support the new curriculum. Of course then, since parents didn't even know that the resources existed they wouldn't know what was in them, so parents didn't understand where the quotes came from in the letter that the CRC sent to pilot school parents.

But it gets worse. When hundreds of concerned parents called MCPS to get an explanation of what the information that the CRC was providing was, they were told (you guessed it!) the information quoted in the letter is not in the curriculum. To this day MCPS still makes this claim. For educational 'professionals' to take such a position is, well, farcical.

However, right reason made the day and Judge Williams saw through this.

Is one to conclude that this was all by design? The resources were not (and are still not) on the MCPS website, they are only listed in the back of the annual report. Most all of the resources listed have no web addresses, and some are even gone from the web entirely. The CRC website is the ONLY place were the new curriculum's Teacher Resources can be seen. This is our County government doing this to us folks!
- posted by Bob @ 9:30 PM