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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope she's really, actually walking it back and not just putting lipstick on a pig. After all, Fairfax says it teaches "blended literacy," which is really just the cueing of Calkins with a tiny bit of phonics smattered around the edges.

I too am still working to undo damage done by this way for a child. I feel stressed to teach a preschooler to learn to read so that she won't even try to use the stupid picture/first letter cues. It's not good.[/quote]m

As a fourth grade teacher who is told I HAVE to use Lucy, I try to undo some of the damage but there’s so many kids and so little time. I gave my students word ladder puzzles today and found myself saying things I’ve said to first graders as an aide and tutor in the past... like “‘h-ate. Oh now we substitute the h for an r. R-ate.” And some kids were spelling “care” and “came” with a k so I said “sometimes c makes a hard c sound like in cat. C-at. But sometimes it’s a soft c like in Cinderella.” It’s heart breaking they’re in fourth grade and I feel like I have to say this stuff to help them because they should’ve learned it in first and didn’t.

It also drives me crazy but again, I’m not blaming the kids. I just feel like my admin says I HAVE to teach Lucy 4th grade curriculum yet I find my kids need to learn so many things that many first, second, and third graders learn but at non-Lucy schools. Also, I’ve heard Colorado banned the use of her curriculum but I’m not sure how true it is as I taught in Fairfax last year and am in MA now. Both schools use that sh*t though!! Drives me insane. It really is harmful to the kids but if I tell admin that they aren’t happy to say the least... it’s use it or resign basically. But this year I’m slightly less micromanaged so I sneak stuff in.[/quote]

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