Parents fret over Montgomery schools' readiness plan | Washington Examiner

Parents fret over Montgomery schools' readiness plan | Washington Examiner

...On the other end of the spectrum, some parents are concerned that the standards are too rigid for the county's students for whom college is not the realistic next step.
Gordie Brenne, a parent at Kensington's Albert Einstein High School, said the Seven Keys make no allowance for nearly half of the schools' freshmen who, based on estimates, will fail to graduate.
Brenne wrote a letter to Superintendent Jerry Weast arguing that the studies used to create the Seven Keys were biased toward students most likely to attend college anyway. And the necessity of Algebra II, he said, was not concluded in any of the studies.
Brenne and parents like him worry that initiatives that have worked for less successful students will be crowded out by the Seven Keys approach.
"We need to have room for more experiments, to engage our kids in more novel ways," Brenne said...

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The Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland printed Mr. Brenne's letter and statement to MCPS Board of Education on May 2, 2009. Read Mr. Brenne's letter and statement, and the statement of Mary and Tom Peterson here.