GTA Protests Fast Tracked Pearson Curriculum

The Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County, Inc. protests the Board’s scheduled September 27, 2010, “Approval of K-5 Curriculum Frameworks.” 

            “Curriculum is fundamental to what Montgomery County Public Schools is trying to accomplish.”  Policy IFA B.  It should specify “the Board of Education’s expectations of what students should know and be able to do at the end of each grade level and course.”  Policy IFA C.2(c).  It should reflect “the needs of learners, and the desires of the community….”  Policy IFA C.2(a).

            Neither parents nor Board members have had sufficient opportunity to consider the Frameworks;  the Pearson arrangement that is framing the Frameworks sets a mid-level Seven Keys trajectory ill-matched to the needs and abilities of gifted and talented students;  and the “integration” of Science and Social Studies into Mathematics and Reading seems to abandon robust, discrete, Science and Social Studies courses in  Elementary School education.


Full statement from the Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County, Inc.
GTA BOE K5 Curriculum 9.22.10