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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's weird that people think the lack of textbooks says something about the curriculum in FCPS.  I taught there.  It wasn't like, hey we have no books, teach what you want.  It was more like, hey, teach the full SOLs for 4th grade social studies and don't forget all the FCPS POS points, and oh, by the way, we don't have any textbooks or resources for you so you'll have to find all the information online at the VDOE website and then make all your own handouts.  [/quote]

Lol and they encourage you to create the mini lesson on slides. All they seemed to give teachers were the standards in the order they wanted them taught. Occasionally they’d suggest a resource but then you had to track it down and usually another teacher had it checked out of the school library or another school had it!! Like thanks for suggesting I use a specific lesson from a specific book next week, but I probably won’t find it since it’s checked out by another teacher at a completely different school towns away. Thanks for the idea though!

Where I am now, if a school wants a teacher using Fundations or a HMH book, that teacher is given their very own copy to keep in their room. If you can’t find it it’s your own fault. Keep it somewhere safe and you’ll always have access. [b]No need to spend hours after school waiting for a free copier to run off a billion copies of anything.[/b] [/quote]

But textbooks are so antiquated! Isn't it much more [i]modern[/i] to have professional who are paid $70,000+/year to spend hours every week in front of a photocopier? [/quote]

So green![/quote]

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