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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new Amplify curriculum central office wants to role out in science is terrible. It has dozens of factual errors and awful graphics. A human heart in the anatomy unit is just shown as a box. The definition of bacteria is wrong. Can we cut the thousands some fool spent on it? [/quote]

Almost all of the home grown curricula are bad and substantially worse than what DCPS could buy off the shelf for much less money. Why would a single city even want to develop its own math or science curriculum? I understand pieces of social studies, in order to emphasize local history and likely government given the unique DC context... and maybe some of ELA to emphasize local writers, local culture, etc, but neither of those require entirely new curricula and neither of those have anything to do with math or science. It's insane how much money DCPS wastes on developing its own stuff.[/quote]

The irony here with this comment and sentiment is that these "home grown" curricula you're referring to from the central office are made by teachers that are hired and paid admin premium to write it. You know...teachers that are so universally competent and efficient that they don't need a central office beyond maybe a skeleton crew ?[/quote]

Absolutely not true or at least misleading. There are a slew of central office people who are curriculum developers. If they outsource the actual writing, that’s even more embarrassing for DCPS. And being a competent teacher doesn’t make you good at writing your own curriculum.[/quote]

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