APS Lucy Calkins- how does this happen?
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Anonymous
BULL. I worked in a hospital for years, and the nurses knew perfectly well which doctors did what awful thing and NO ONE spoke up. That's extremely rare. You are totally lying, or aren't even a nurse. |
Anonymous
Ha, no. This isn’t because parental expectations are too high. The vast majority of our graduates are SO far behind those from other developed nations. |
Anonymous
Maybe the problem is not the curriculum, but that living in poverty makes academic success very difficult, regardless of the curriculum. That's what research tells us, anyway, although it's ignored by everyone because it's much easier to blame schools for a problem they didn't cause than it is to address the real cause - poverty and inequity. Also what my personal experience teaching for 30 years tells me. |
Anonymous
I suppose I can’t speak for all nurses, but I’ve worked for 4 different hospital systems. I guess you worked in a really bad hospital, and a really bad school? |
Anonymous
LOL. You worked in ONE hospital for years! You can totally speak for the entire nursing profession! 😂 |
Anonymous
Same here! I had to secretly teach phonics. It really helped a lot of kids who otherwise would have been held back. But if they'd found out, I'd have been in trouble. Even the kids with dyslexia weren't getting phonics, and it was a total disaster. |
Anonymous
“I can paint all teachers with a bad brush but you can’t do it for nurses.” |
Anonymous
Worked in 3, actually, and my mother was a nurse for 40 years. |
Anonymous
Yet research shows that those kids living in poverty start to thrive when they are in a school that uses a content-rich curriculum! Go back and read previous posts. Using a better curriculum minimizes how much supplementation is needed, meaning it narrows the achievement gap between rich and poor kids. |
Anonymous
Mmm Hmm. You said “a” hospital (singular) above. Go ahead and cry “bull” all you want. You’re the one changing your story. |
Anonymous
Test scores all over the nation don’t lie. |
Anonymous
First off, my child was both bored to death with being taught (talked) down to in every subject in a high FARMs school every day for 6 years. That's tough to deal with as a parent of a gifted child but we can supplement that at home or find other means. However, the problem we had was that our child had to deal with awful kids that were allowed to cause violence and mayhem in the classroom and the teachers had to shield these kids because of 1) ridiculous privacy laws (every parent and classmate knows your kid is the bad egg already so not sure why this is so important); and 2) apparently these kids who physically and mentally torment other kids are snowflakes themselves according to their parents who often label them as the victims. Otherwise why would you get so offensive? Parents of regular students must go into the classroom if there is a kid like this and volunteer if for only one reason. To stop blaming teachers for the lack of learning. Teachers absolutely cannot reach borderline kids when they have no energy and low morale because selfish and entitled parents cite stupid inequitable laws instead of deferring to common sense and human decency. Your one kid who is that socially unstable will not go on to have a good education and career. However, you're taking that opportunity away from 20+ other kids who fall behind because of you, many of whom are URM or from households that don't have a history of going to college, and may need that one good year of learning environment to kickstart their academic careers. Yes, we have many problems with curriculum and some teachers. Yes, general ed classes should be emphasizing education and not babysitting. But it's hard to judge who are the good teachers if they're not able to actually teach. It all starts with having classrooms set up for teachers to teach and not to police. Oftentimes, whom the parents perceived as good teachers were actually just entertainers and not actually teaching any material. And please, parents, don't come back with "my kids learned a lot." Almost all of you don't even know what that means and you're just comparing it to some watered down SOL that is meaningless. |
Anonymous
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It is NOT poverty. It is the curriculum.
Read articles or books by Natalie Wexler. The Lucy Calkins story is so shocking - how the heck did she become so influential. It may be because she makes it easy for teachers. Not only is her workshop approach awful for reading, it is equally awful for writing. Read The Writing Revolution and see what direct instruction with the Hochman Method can do. Public education needs to be evidence based. |
Anonymous
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It's great that we FINALLY have a superintendent in APS who has a clue.
Selecting Lexia is a great first start. I expect more positive changes to the curriculum - including scientifically-proven programs. |
Anonymous
We are a hugely obese country with lots of diabetes and other health issues. Guess that’s on nurses by your logic. |