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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the textbook hang-up so many people have is because that it wasn't how they learned so they think it is intuitively wrong.  People don't like change.  Kids today grow up without textbooks and access to computers so they don't know anything else.  Objectively look at what your child is learning and see if they are improving.  If they are not that is your problem.  All the textbooks in the world won't solve that problem.[/quote]

[b]This is the most ridiculous thing that I have heard.  We are not in the times of the "Little House on the Prairie", where we have a single teacher and kids of all ages and abilities are lumped together!   In all countries there are textbooks  for each subject and each grade, prescribed for the entire school district.  It ensures two things - first of all, everyone gets the same curriculum, resource and education  AND secondly, students can always practise or go back to content that they have not understood or need more help with. 
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I am surprised that when people clamour to close the achievement gap, they do not demand that textbooks should be prescribed and made available.  Do you think that children who are studying, being enriched and tutored outside of school are doing it without any textbook or material?

I use the old algebra books that was being used a few years back. Math has not changed - even if curriculum 2.0 would want us to believe it has.  My child is in the Math magnet program and we still use the textbooks. [/quote]

Little House on the Prairie.  Love that and plan on using it!

Just wait until that contingent of wireless nutjobs that have taken over the Montgomery County PTA Health and Wellness committee start spewing their nonsense and costing MCPS even more money with their hysteria.  We won't even have chromebooks, or the funds to pay books.

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