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[quote=Anonymous]Do high performing charters reinvent the wheel as well? What Singapore and other countries? We are also in ward 3 DCPS elementary. Our emerging concern is the inconsistency in materials. Some good. Some repetitive crap. Some even handwritten. There also seems to be too much practice on tactics for filling in the bubbles on a test and not enough on actually understanding word problems. One child told me he was told to just pick whichever answer is closest to his rather than checking his answer first. The latest thing is websites, 2 different ones, that seem too focused on multiple choice. It's not clear to me that the teachers have gone thrush all the questions themselves. It seems like there are one or two poorly constructed word problems a month. Our other child has better verbal comprehension than numeracy. He is less comfortable guessing than his sibling. At first he thought there were trick questions on purpose.

Supposedly the school is teaching more depth and less breadth. Is it possible to do that and test taking tactics to 6-8 year Olds?[/quote]

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