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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This week amplify has more terrible questions. How hard is it to write 12 decent, specific questions? If your kid is a dcps middle schooler, you should be able to see the questions via clever this week because Halloween is a major deadline for the rcts. Please raise a stink with the chancellor and mayor.

The 7th grade questions ask about circulatory, respiratory, and digestive systems yet mention no organs, tissues or specific cells.  This is amplify‘s “human body” test but doesn’t even mention the nervous or excretory systems. The nervous system is its own standard in ngss so I don’t know how they can say this program is “teaching” the standards.

The diagram of the heart in their “sim” (online lab) for this unit shows an empty box. If you select “choking” in the sim, it blocks the digestive system rather than the respiratory. I’d say esophagus vs trachea but neither of those parts are labeled/included. The “human” cell is shown as a rectangle without a nucleus. It’s malpractice to require all kids to be in this program.

$680,000 was spent this year for this? $1,000,000 last year? [/quote]

Was this made by AI? Seriously so strange.

These poor kids. It is malpractice to lay an incorrect foundation in science to every single DCPS middle schooler. What happens if they want to go into a STEM field later on and are competing with peers who learned properly (at privates and many charters)?[/quote]

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