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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP sounds like they work for CommonLit or DCPS. Most parents are complaining because CommonLit removes ALL books from the curriculum. One novel per quarter seems doable and yet DCPS gave the green light to this program without any tweaks.

Because they are lazy. They don’t want to customize. They rolled this pilot out with a few weeks notice to parents in August. They rolled it out so quickly that they didn’t have time to institute any customizations. This is being piloted to the detriment of students for one whole school year.

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I don't work for common lit or DCPS. I'm a parent but have done a lot of curriculum work. [/quote]

Did you see all these comments from teacher reddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/ELATeachers/comments/1jlglt6/commonlit_360/

" it’s making me consider leaving the profession. The materials are mind-numbingly boring, and it’s turning my students into robots. Classes that used to be exuberant and engaged now have no personality. It’s read, answer a (often poorly worded) question, and repeat. I’m sure there are ways I could make it more engaging, and they can definitely pick up on the fact that I don’t like the curriculum, but I feel like it has sucked all the joy out of teaching. I used to have debates, read scholarly articles, do Socratic seminars, assign creative projects…and now there really isn’t room for any of that."

"Students have the attention span of sandfleas, and we're expected to completely overcome it, but aren't allowed to build reading stamina using long-form text. Everything has to be in short snippets. No novels where the kids are given the opportunity to gain empathy and understanding of other people by sharing in their stories. I hate this timeline. "

We left DCPS for middle school, but I would be very worried about this.

In the future I see a widening gap -- private school students (and in DC, certain charter students) are still reading novels and learning how to analyze texts, and public schools students are left to lower and lower and lower standards in reading/writing/learn science and history, etc.

Parents should absolutely mobilize. Jonathan Haidt's new mission is "get Ed Tech out of the classroom."

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