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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you know that every school is doing there own thing?[/quote]

The principal and the head of the math department told me when I showed them examples of materials from another school.  I have a nephew taking Geometry at different high school than my child.  My sister and I have compared the resources, homework assignments, and tests.  Simple concepts such as vocabulary lists are different as well as the order that the concepts are being taught.

Basically the principal explained that the math department gets the student learning tasks that the kids need to achieve but each school and teacher individually has to develop the plan for teaching that task.  The vocabulary example is that the kids need to learn basic geometry vocabulary.  Each school makes a determination as to what that is.  It sounded like to me that they teach what they think needs to be taught, in the order they want, because there is not enough guidance on what they need to do.  The principal also said the curriculum has not been fully written so sometimes there are lags while the staff are waiting for the next unit.[/quote]

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