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[quote=Anonymous]I think we really need to take a hard look at the APS bureaucracy.  I would bet you that, over time, the FTE costs have ballooned over the last 30 years—as opposed to say aquatics and the planetarium which I suspect are the pretty much the same (and in the planetariums case, reduced).

One byproduct I hate of that massive bureaucracy is the crazy way in which APS is constantly buying new curriculums and testing rubrics.  In ES alone, the teachers are constantly changing what method/textbooks they are using from year to year.  This gives me zero confidence that (1) the method is effective and proven and (2) teachers know how to teach it.  Plus, every five minutes they are adding new/differenr/better testing.

I am not blaming the teacher for this.  In every system, there will be room for improvement and curriculum should be examined, say, every 5-10 years but our ES teachers have new methods every year.  I know this having multiple children go through the same ES year after year.  It’s a humongous waste and impacts the students and teachers.

Turns out that what’s new and fancy in curriculum world is not what we should be doing.  Best example is the horrible reading/phonics that has led to massive reading loss among our students. Perhaps we shouldn’t be chasing the newest technique and if we didn’t have the money we wouldn’t. [/quote]

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