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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish we could go back to teaching the basics in the early grades. None of this ridiculous close reading for 90 minutes a day. Kids need to listen to books but not imitate high school and college kids by spending entire classes doing an analysis of why the author chose that vocab word instead of this one. Do kindergarteners who can barely write their names and hold a pencil need to be wasting time talking about shades of meaning? Nope. Math needs to be simpler because there are students who cannot handle learned 10 different "strategies" to add single digit numbers. We need to pre-test students for math and regroup them for each unit. The slower kids just need to basics. The higher kids can handle all of those strategies. We also need more recess. 10-15 minutes per day for little kids is not nearly enough.[/quote]

As a parent, I’d like to see schools stop doing this too. But, who makes these decisions? Who has the power to change it? Is this decision at the state level? Do individuals districts decide? Principals? [/quote]

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