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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS used Lucy Calkins until about 3-4 years ago. My older child was taught how to read using the look at the first letter and guess based on the picture approach. We spent thousands of dollars on tutoring to teach her the proper, backed by science, way of reading. Thank god FCPS switched to Wilson/phonics by the time my younger child started K.[/quote]

[google]I think it's a mistake to trust the schools to teach children what they need to know[/google]. What could illustrate this more than the so-called reading wars and Calkins' influence over curricula in schools for so many years? There's also $ invested in other latest trends in education that will eventually be shown to be a waste of time. Good to lobby for better, but definitely wouldn't wait on them to ensure my child is literate and numerate.

This book came out almost 15 years ago and slams the whole-word approach and reading wars, and highlights that part of the ongoing fall out is resistance of teachers. https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Brain-New-Science-Read/dp/0143118056

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You know, when we were kids, schools did teach us what we needed to know.  Parents didn't preteach or afterschool teach.  It's not absurd to expect schools to teach academics.

Fwiw, I can see the big changes in the past couple years in what my older DC was taught and what my younger DC is being taught.  And even in what my older DC is being taught now compared to several years ago.[/quote]

I learned to read at home.

I learned basic math facts at home.

Everything I ever learned about history was learned at home. Other than AP Government, my social studies education in school was abysmal.

I learned about meteorology at home.

I learned human anatomy and physiology at home.

I learned about British Literature at home.

I'm sure there are many more examples, but this should prove a point that not everything was taught at school even when we were all kids (for me, in the 80s and 90s).
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