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The point is parents are helicoptering over which/how many novels their kids are reading. If youre that concerned, get your kids more books. If they’re below benchmarks call the reading specialist. There are resources for every kid. APS is not failing kids on literacy bevy they’re not reading the same 10 novels.

I mean I can get them a high powered laptop and a guitar, but I don't expect them to become a FAANG employee or rock star all on their own. Reading complex literature, understanding the themes and processing content that spans more than a paragraph are important skills for any career, and practice and instruction are part of that. Sure I can HOMESCHOOL them for their reading curriculum, but I already have a job and I hate to have my kid wasting 6 hrs of their day waiting for other kids to READ OUT LOUD.

How can there really not be more novels assigned? Why is there not earlier reading differentiation, since even at 5th grade some students are very advanced readers and need more to be challenged -- even if not marked "gifted" (and since APS switched to push in, gifted has been a bit of a farce)[/quote]

A couple of thoughts:

--Many parents want their kids to have choices of books to read, or object to certain novels, so assigning the same novels to all kids is something US schools have really moved away from over the last 20 years
--Many kids are more willing to read if they can make their own choices
-- Reading non-fiction is actually more important to building kids' background knowledge and vocabulary. Most schools have students reading a mix of non-fiction and fiction, and if you're not counting the non-fiction they are reading, you are missing an important factor.
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I would be ESTATIC if we had history textbooks, or they were reading biographies or even natural science/history book.

So kids get choices to what to read, do I get to ask to not teach them about tectonic plates or the civil war?  If a kid doesn't want to learn fractions, do they get to make choices in math topics so they are more willing?

I really want to bend spouse to returning to APS, but this level of student directed curriculum is not going to have the scope they are looking for.[/quote]

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