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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you are extremely pedantic.

I would not say Benchmark is an awesome or perfect curriculum. However, you, as a parent, have an incomplete picture of what is being taught day to day in the classroom. The curriculum does make more sense than you think it does, in that skills and concepts are being taught sequentially and systematically within and across the units.

You are a bit outside your lane (in that you aren't trained in pedagogy, don't have classroom experience teaching 3rd graders, and aren't aware of the scope and sequence of all the lessons). DCUM is full of parents thinking they are experts. Go write an ELA curriculum please, and grace us all with your genius. [/quote]

Private schools teach reading through literature. They also teach critical language schools through grammar and reading drills (think: one page passages with sat-like reading comprehension questions). Writing is taught through all classes—primarily English, but also social studies and science—through essays, exams, and research papers.

Mcps kids get a few minutes of group instruction followed by independent work during an extra long block. Nobody is receiving appropriate instruction. [/quote]

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