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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents in Massachusetts are actually suing them.  The crux of the argument is that 1-the reading programs they sold to school districts across the country don't work because there is no phonics component and 2-they KNEW the reading programs didn't work.

[b]Doesn't Fairfax still use these programs?[/b]  I was forced to when I was a teacher, and we would get into trouble if anyone found out we were teaching phonics (which many of us did in secret).

I wish Fairfax parents would sue them.  [/quote]

Clearly you’re not in FCPS. If you were, you’d know that no one has used Caulkins in years and that EVERYONE in the county is using Benchmark which has explicit phonics instruction. [/quote]

I'm in Fairfax, but haven't taught in 10 years, and my kids are all out of elementary. But I know those programs were used at least as recently as two years ago, and also that there is no such thing as "everyone" in fcps.[b] Principals are never forced to do anything in terms of instruction[/b].[/quote]

No really, principals are forced to use Benchmark. It’s a state law. [/quote]

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