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[quote=Anonymous]Our school had a presentation from the county tonight, and it almost felt like they were trying to talk us all out of doing it.

Takeaways:

No materials are being provided to teachers by the county except mathspace accounts.

No data will be provided to parents on skipped standards or weak prealgebra skills until MAP data comes in a few weeks, and then they aren’t sure how much information that will provide since it hasn’t been used in elementary before.

The threshold to take algebra this year in 6th is lower than in the past. They could not explain why it was chosen, what the numbers mean, or why they think children at that threshold will be successful.

There is no plan going forward to streamline 3/4/5th grade so that future kids don’t skip 2 years of math to take algebra in 6th. The goal is to get everyone regardless of AAP on a track to algebra in 8th and just move to algebra earlier if they score high on whatever tests.

They chose to automatically opt in instead of have parents opt in because “not all parents read school communications” (our parent community was ticked at this and very much argued that going forward families should not be auto enrolled). Feedback was “county is just trying to remove all barriers to algebra 1 in 6th grade”.

I’m disheartened at how poorly this is being done.

I felt bad, the presenters clearly thought the program was unnecessary and have been handed this mandate from Reid. But at the same time…man, it’s horribly done.[/quote]

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