New Math Program - NO Differentiation until Grades 11-12?!?

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Anonymous wrote:Who is coming up with these dumb proposals? Is the VA dept. of Ed still being by the same moron who's fu**ing up TJ? Idiots!

Education LOVES fads and trends, and the students that get stuck in school while they're going on are the ones who end up behind or under-educated. Between my schooling, my spouse's, and our kids', we've lived through tracking/detracking, acceleration/busywork, phonics/whole word memorization, cursive/no cursive, just to name a few. Education feels like a constant experiment on live subjects.

1000% this.

Just like schools are finally wising up to the stupidity of the Lucy Calkins reading program, without any plan to remedy all of the kids who couldn't learn to read this way.

If you want to make my very even-keeled and generally agreeable mother, a long-time English and ESL teacher, really angry and rant for an hour, talk to her about programs like Lucy Calkins that don't teach reading using phonics. She has VERY strong feelings about it and, back in the dark ages where she had control over her curriculum and wasn't teaching to a test, would stealth teach phonics whenever the curriculum du jour tried to go in a different direction. When my kids hit preschool, she called and asked me if schools were going through "one of those stupid phases" where they weren't teaching phonics and offered to come and teach them herself, if that was the case. Programs like Lucy Calkins make her crazy because she sees it as fostering illiteracy and putting kids at a serious disadvantage, especially those who aren't getting reading/letter sounds at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is coming up with these dumb proposals? Is the VA dept. of Ed still being by the same moron who's fu**ing up TJ? Idiots!

Education LOVES fads and trends, and the students that get stuck in school while they're going on are the ones who end up behind or under-educated. Between my schooling, my spouse's, and our kids', we've lived through tracking/detracking, acceleration/busywork, phonics/whole word memorization, cursive/no cursive, just to name a few. Education feels like a constant experiment on live subjects.

1000% this.

Just like schools are finally wising up to the stupidity of the Lucy Calkins reading program, without any plan to remedy all of the kids who couldn't learn to read this way.

If you want to make my very even-keeled and generally agreeable mother, a long-time English and ESL teacher, really angry and rant for an hour, talk to her about programs like Lucy Calkins that don't teach reading using phonics. She has VERY strong feelings about it and, back in the dark ages where she had control over her curriculum and wasn't teaching to a test, would stealth teach phonics whenever the curriculum du jour tried to go in a different direction. When my kids hit preschool, she called and asked me if schools were going through "one of those stupid phases" where they weren't teaching phonics and offered to come and teach them herself, if that was the case. Programs like Lucy Calkins make her crazy because she sees it as fostering illiteracy and putting kids at a serious disadvantage, especially those who aren't getting reading/letter sounds at home.

PP here. Its really really bad. Both of my kids were "taught" to read with Lucy Calkins (I didn't know that was what it was called then) but I could tell it was a ridiculous way to teach reading. Both of my kids really struggled and I'm convinced learned to read much later than they would have under phonics. They also now have this pervasive feeling that they are "bad" at reading which has been difficult to combat. I'm livid.

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