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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS needs to replace this awful tool.  Students and teachers alike hate it.  Students find the readings uninteresting and are not at all inspired.  There is no independent reading time in class anymore which students also hate.  Students feel they have to interpret readings in the exact same manner, no room for diversity of thought.  Students find the questions really confusing.  In conclusion, benchmark really really sucks.  FCPS do better.  [/quote]

I said this last year and was pilloried for it here. The defenders jumped into action, screaming how their child’s reading scores actually improved. Thankfully we moved on the middle school where they are not using Benchmark. My child’s love of reading has finally - her class did a book club. And my child is finally reading independently again after a whole year off.[/quote]\

Anyone who describes those of us who said that Benchmark helped our children as "screaming" and who claims that a [I]school curriculum[/I] is the reason their child didn't read outside of school is just not credible.

It's YOUR job as a parent to make sure your child is reading outside of school, not the school's. Weren't you buying her books, taking her to the library, etc.? There are a TON of resources out there to help you find the perfect books for your child's interests. I subscribed to a middle school librarian's substack and get great recommendations from her. There is BookTok if you're a TikTok person, librarian influencers on Instagram, even Barnes & Noble has lists of the most popular middle grade books out there. You're doing your children a great disservice if you're not helping them find great books to read.[/quote]

My child lost interest in reading outside of school the one year they did Benchmark. This year is the first year since then that they have expressed an interest in a book outside of school, despite everything I tried.[/quote]

I don't see how your child could lose interest in reading because of the language arts unit at school. [b]You were NOT doing anything to encourage them to read. Parenting fail[/b].[/quote]

That’s utter bs. How would you know what I did and didn’t do?[/quote]

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