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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, the staff were told they had four crummy free options to choose from, and they selected the least crummy option. The least the board could do is approve it given that there isn’t any money for a real curriculum. All these curriculums are just rough outlines with no actual resources, so there is a ton of work to do after the thing is approved.[/quote]

All of hte so-called crummy free options they were looking at are substantially better than the expensive option we currently using, which is not aligned with standards. -Member of the review team.[/quote]

Believe me, as an ELA teacher, I am no fan of study sink. However, the for free options we reviewed are still crummy. No materials are provided unless you pay for them, and the county isn’t paying for them. We are starting from scratch. This is especially frustrating since we had a decent curriculum before study sink which we paid a small fortune to be told wasn’t good enough. Since literacy is one of the most important things for our students, I don’t understand why we aren’t getting a high-quality curriculum like the William and Mary.[/quote]

William & Mary is not a standards-aligned curriculum. CKLA is. It is a full curriculum and all the materials are available for download for free. MCPS said in the memo that it would be printing the materials.

CKLA is the same curriculum they are using in MCPS ES, albeit there is a published version for ES (not for MS).[/quote]

??? There is absolutely a published version for MS.  You can download a homeschool or classroom version from the CKLA website or purchase a printed classroom version for $270.  If Amplify is their distributor then clearly they should have the means to provide a digital and/or print version in order to get our business.  In fact we got a quote last year for the MS version.  I fail to see how or why a full thorough review by committee hasn’t been conducted by now.  Replacement of the MS curriculum wasn’t a surprise nor something that just came up this school year.

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