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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]In addition, the school districts might tell me I have to use a certain junky curriculum, but if I can prove that my methods work better, I should be able to use them -- after all my kids test scores (and my job!) are on the line. I deserve the right to use materials that will work better than whatever junk they provide. (If the argument is the pearson written curriculum is bad)  
 
 
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You mean like teachers did back in the day?  I taught primary grades--we always worked together and developed materials.  But, now, with standardization it is quite different.  [/quote]

Well, WAY back in the day, each school district had its own standards.   In fact, when I was growing up (in the 70s) I'm pretty sure there weren't any standards set in my school -- teachers just decided what they wanted to teach, basically )they were given textbooks).  Some teachers went faster and covered the whole book, others took side trips because they were interested in Science or really loved poetry.   One teacher loved to put on plays so all year long we just did a bunch of plays.  The experience from teacher to teacher was very different, depending on who you happened to get.
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