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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why we moved our child to Catholic school, which has been phenomenal. I work in a public school as a reading specialist, and things are honestly a mess. A big part of the problem is the school systems’ large contracts with ed tech companies, as well as low standards for student work output. In many “top” public schools, the parents are happy because the kids get good grades and the teachers cater to the parents. The parents are not looking behind the curtain or realizing that the kids are not leaning much at all. [/quote]

+1. Wish I had started my kid in Catholic (not incidentally because they stayed open during Covid …) [b]Not only are the standards in public for student outcomes low, but they literally do not believe that the teacher’s role is to teach and ensure the kids to focused practice. As far as I can discern, the current teaching philosophy is that the act of completing the computerized lesson and clicking through it IS learning[/b] and that teachers don’t have to do anything else. [/quote]

We are seeing this, plus we have the workshop model, which I think is ridiculous at the elementary ages. 7 and 8 year olds need guided writing prompts, models of written work, and they need teacher corrections, not comments made by other 7 year olds reading their work. Don't get me started on uncorrected spelling and ungraded math problems.[/quote]

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