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I honestly think that even educated professionals frequently assume that the schools know best until they discover unexpected gaps in their kids' abilities.

That was me.  Even though my mom had a master's in early child development.

We did some of our own phonics training and lots of nonspecific enrichment just to be proactive.  But not enough math prep/remediation.  I can also tell that my school district must have added some elements onto the Calkins stuff.  There was paragraph construction training in 1st grade.  And a little bit of spelling and grammar in second grade.

I don't hold people outside the field responsible for detecting and remediating deficits that can only be really seen holistically across large populations of students.  And there's certainly been other contributory causes...the devices, the pandemic, etc.

Because of my mom's professional background, I was aware that there was a long-running phonics movement (for decades).   But that's it.  It wasn't until that Sold A Story podcast came out that I heard the Calkins curriculum was associated with severe underperformance.  Normally I'm a bit of a news trivia person and I was pretty involved in PTA meetings and knew the curriculum supervisor because I lobbied her to fix other issues.  I am surprised to have been so in the dark.  So don't blame your neighbors...[/quote]

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