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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand what's abnormal or age-inappropriate about learning about carbon dioxide and the carbon footprint. (And I know that first-graders learned about the environment under the previous curriculum.)

It makes a lot of sense to me to wait to teach about time on an analog clock until the children have learned about fractions. And I don't see the detriment, since [b]everybody uses digital clocks these days anyway.[/b]

Also, a lot of the stuff you complain about is school policy, not the curriculum.

(Probably under the previous curriculum, you would have been one of the people complaining about math acceleration. MCPS can't do anything right.)[/quote]

FWIW, I've never seen a single digital clock on the wall in an MCPS classroom, they are analog in every single class.

Hard for kids to learn to estimate how much time it takes to do a task, when they are going to rotate to the next group, whether a peer's turn is over, etc.  if kids can't tell time on the analog class on the wall in the classroom.

Also, to some extent, learning to read an analog clock helps with directionality, which can be a problem for kids to learn when they are writing.  These two skills (writing and learning to tell time on an analog) help each other to some extent. [/quote]

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