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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m more concerned with the middle school curriculum which is absolutely terrible. [/quote]

What MS curriculum do they use? What books do they read? What makes it so bad?[/quote]

DCPS has developed its own curriculum for Middle School.  For each year in grades 6-8 students read 4  anchor texts, in 6th grade it's, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred Taylor), Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt), Inside Out and Back Again (Thanhha Lai), Beowulf: A New Telling (Robert Nye).  In addition, students read short stories, poetry, and some literary nonfiction.  Most of the writing assignments are designed to train students to answer the PARCC essay questions. My major objection is that this is rather thin and a lot of my students had either already read these books in elementary school or would read the entire anchor text in a day or two.  So there isn't much challenge. Additionally, because there is no "textbook", teachers are forced to develop their own materials to teach what is traditionally known as language arts. So students are deluged with a sea of handouts, now mainly delivered online. It's pretty thin gruel, but probably not much worse than any other public middle school.[/quote]

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