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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A golden rule to remember is almost anyone commenting on what is or should be taught at a given school or what the daily lessons contain has ZERO experience in any classroom at that school.  They haven't seen the syllabus, can't tell you what books are required there, don't know the assessments, etc.

But that doesn't slow them down. "THIS AWFUL SCHOOL DOES THIS, AND THEY NEVER DO THAT!"

Anytime I see those arguments, I tune them out.  Parents can't even cite what happens in their own child's classroom in any detail.  Thinking they can opine on how a given school teaches something is mostly nonsense.[/quote]

Some parents I know are very involved and knowledgeable about what happens in their child's classrooms, and the curriculum used by the grade level. There will always be parents who criticize or admire a school without even knowing any details, and who post on here as well.

This is DCUM. You take the good with the bad. It happens in the public school forums, and every other topic you can think of. People love to opine, whether or not they know anything about the whatever it is! :-)

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Some probably are - most who post here with loud opinions NEVER cite a single lesson, topic, book, project, or exercise that happened in the class that they think is going so terribly wrong.

They don't consider that a prerequisite for assessing the course contents, apparently.

Not so different from our political discourse today in a post-factual world for many.[/quote]

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