No Textbooks in Elementary School; All of FCPS, or Just Schools Near Me?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I would love to have textbooks to use with my students. Textbooks are costly and curriculum changes. I get that. It would be to the benefit it the students, families, and teachers to have access to them. I’d rather money go towards textbooks than the countless PD days we have in our calendar.

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Not to mention, some of the (very expensive) online programs are absolute crap, and many teachers agree with this. What a waste of money.

Online learning can be done well. Kahn Academy, CTY, Beast Academy, etc are very good programs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Textbooks are an outdated practice that are expensive, inflexible, and disliked by students. Schools across the country have stopped using them.

Public schools across the country have stopped using them and justify this by talking about the "expense" of purchasing them. Instead they are spending that money on Chromebooks which have full internet access because everyone knows children have the self-control to focus on the math problems they are supposed to be doing on the screen instead of Youtube videos.
In the meantime Catholic schools are still using textbooks and we can all see the terrible results they are getting in educating children of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

Are catholic schools doing any better than FCPS? Do you have any data to back up your assertion?

Why can’t you look things up on your own? Here’s the data:

https://www.educationnext.org/catholic-schools-are-a-rare-bright-spot-in-nations-report-card-2022-data/

I don't see any mention of FCPS there

Ugh, the PO asked about Catholic schools’ data

PP asked for data that catholics are doing better than FCPS. Logically, that would require FCPS data to answer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I would love to have textbooks to use with my students. Textbooks are costly and curriculum changes. I get that. It would be to the benefit it the students, families, and teachers to have access to them. I’d rather money go towards textbooks than the countless PD days we have in our calendar.

+100
Not to mention, some of the (very expensive) online programs are absolute crap, and many teachers agree with this. What a waste of money.

Online learning can be done well. Kahn Academy, CTY, Beast Academy, etc are very good programs.

Beast academy does have a textbook/workbook, but its not required.

https://beastacademy.com/books#curriculum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other elementary schools have textbooks. FCPS having none seems cheap and short sighted.

As others have said on this thread, Montgomery and Howard (two other wealthy/educated counties in the area) do not. Not sure about Loudoun or Arlington.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Textbooks are an outdated practice that are expensive, inflexible, and disliked by students. Schools across the country have stopped using them.

Public schools across the country have stopped using them and justify this by talking about the "expense" of purchasing them. Instead they are spending that money on Chromebooks which have full internet access because everyone knows children have the self-control to focus on the math problems they are supposed to be doing on the screen instead of Youtube videos.
In the meantime Catholic schools are still using textbooks and we can all see the terrible results they are getting in educating children of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

Are catholic schools doing any better than FCPS? Do you have any data to back up your assertion?

Why can’t you look things up on your own? Here’s the data:

https://www.educationnext.org/catholic-schools-are-a-rare-bright-spot-in-nations-report-card-2022-data/

I don't see any mention of FCPS there

Ugh, the PO asked about Catholic schools’ data

PP asked for data that catholics are doing better than FCPS. Logically, that would require FCPS data to answer

How hard is that to look up, lazy DCUM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Textbooks are an outdated practice that are expensive, inflexible, and disliked by students. Schools across the country have stopped using them.

Public schools across the country have stopped using them and justify this by talking about the "expense" of purchasing them. Instead they are spending that money on Chromebooks which have full internet access because everyone knows children have the self-control to focus on the math problems they are supposed to be doing on the screen instead of Youtube videos.
In the meantime Catholic schools are still using textbooks and we can all see the terrible results they are getting in educating children of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

Are catholic schools doing any better than FCPS? Do you have any data to back up your assertion?

Why can’t you look things up on your own? Here’s the data:

https://www.educationnext.org/catholic-schools-are-a-rare-bright-spot-in-nations-report-card-2022-data/

Why can’t you post things that aren’t propaganda? Education Next wants to siphon public education dollars to further enrich corporate America. Because everyone knows businesses are great at educating our children

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Textbooks are an outdated practice that are expensive, inflexible, and disliked by students. Schools across the country have stopped using them.

Public schools across the country have stopped using them and justify this by talking about the "expense" of purchasing them. Instead they are spending that money on Chromebooks which have full internet access because everyone knows children have the self-control to focus on the math problems they are supposed to be doing on the screen instead of Youtube videos.
In the meantime Catholic schools are still using textbooks and we can all see the terrible results they are getting in educating children of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

Are catholic schools doing any better than FCPS? Do you have any data to back up your assertion?

Why can’t you look things up on your own? Here’s the data:

https://www.educationnext.org/catholic-schools-are-a-rare-bright-spot-in-nations-report-card-2022-data/

Why can’t you post things that aren’t propaganda? Education Next wants to siphon public education dollars to further enrich corporate America. Because everyone knows businesses are great at educating our children

…They said without a touch of irony as their kids learn math from ST math and reading from Lexia. And the slew of other public education dollar-bought technology platforms.

[Anonymous]

My 4th grader reports that they have a book for the civil war but nothing else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader reports that they have a book for the civil war but nothing else.

our 4th graders have to share a book in VA studies bc there are not enough

[Anonymous]

None in 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I would love to have textbooks to use with my students. Textbooks are costly and curriculum changes. I get that. It would be to the benefit it the students, families, and teachers to have access to them. I’d rather money go towards textbooks than the countless PD days we have in our calendar.

+100
Not to mention, some of the (very expensive) online programs are absolute crap, and many teachers agree with this. What a waste of money.

Online learning can be done well. Kahn Academy, CTY, Beast Academy, etc are very good programs.

Beast academy does have a textbook/workbook, but its not required.

https://beastacademy.com/books#curriculum

My daughter took a live online Beast Academy class through the Virtual Academy last year, and the textbooks were required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other elementary schools have textbooks. FCPS having none seems cheap and short sighted.

As others have said on this thread, Montgomery and Howard (two other wealthy/educated counties in the area) do not. Not sure about Loudoun or Arlington.

Loudoun has moved to pretty much all chrome books. Minimal to no textbooks.

[Anonymous]

Many other states have not done away with textbooks. Maybe move somewhere that education is valued, you won’t find it here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Textbooks are an outdated practice that are expensive, inflexible, and disliked by students. Schools across the country have stopped using them.

Public schools across the country have stopped using them and justify this by talking about the "expense" of purchasing them. Instead they are spending that money on Chromebooks which have full internet access because everyone knows children have the self-control to focus on the math problems they are supposed to be doing on the screen instead of Youtube videos.
In the meantime Catholic schools are still using textbooks and we can all see the terrible results they are getting in educating children of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Textbooks are an outdated practice that are expensive, inflexible, and disliked by students. Schools across the country have stopped using them.

Is there any research that shows that kids learn better without books than with books?

The opposite...

Many studies have shown that when people read on-screen, they don’t understand what they’ve read as well as when they read in print. Even worse, many don’t realize they’re not getting it. For example, researchers in Spain and Israel took a close look at 54 studies comparing digital and print reading. Their 2018 study involved more than 171,000 readers. Comprehension, they found, was better overall when people read print rather than digital texts. The researchers shared the results in Educational Research Review.

https://www.snexplores.org/article/learn-comprehension-reading-digital-screen-paper