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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Democrats gave us Lucy Calkins and her failed reading and writing programs.  Republicans pushed back and now finally phonics is a large part of early reading and spelling again. [/quote]

Lucy Calkins is horrible. Can you explain who pushed back and brought back phonics?[/quote]

There were numerous advocates and when conservatives pushed for this they were ignored. But when the Fairfax NAACP also made it a priority they were heard. [/quote]

Most conservative private schools have better language programs than fcps. Yes. They tend to be more white and wealthy and therefore have a better history teaching the language. From the start of the Calkins program, people who understood the rules of language, majority who were conservatives, pushed back against the loose non-grammar based Calkins curriculum like they are now doing against the math curriculum which is also being watered down. It was only after studies showed that a decade of learning hurt the lowest performers and not just the higher performing students, that anyone on the left started to care or realized they couldn’t hide behind inaction anymore. The same is true now for skills based grading. It’s been shown in Baltimore to have lowered the scores of the entire city. An entire city cannot pass a national math test and their language skills are also very low. Anyone who understands how children learn material and have seen average students with a systematic curriculum can see that it’s detrimental to learning to have little to no structure in educational teaching. The majority of students do not magically do well on exams by doing no individual practice or getting no individual feedback and they do not magically do better on a second exam about a new topic without first understanding the topic they didn’t pass before. They also don’t learn that previous topic better by changing grades from the past. People who understand the slow but methodical steps of educational growth can easily see the fault with only grading exams once a month and nothing else. They are smartly skeptical of new fads preferring them to be introduced in moderation and to complement previous methods while keeping the best of the old whereas new fad is the only way liberal education works jumping from one thing to the other. Liberals think that they need to cater to their base in education and so often bring out a new program saying it will help the poor or is non racist whereas conservatives are focusing on tried and true methods which have worked for the majority of students over time. They don’t buy into this idea that our educational model was to indoctrinate children to be societies worker bees. They understand it was to help develop students minds. A blend of both produces an educational system that is both changing with the times and holding on to the non changing aspects of human development related to how children learn. You can see this at the political level as well. Liberals are always about new and change. We need a balanced board who cares about education and understands this and isn’t constantly jumping around from one thing to the other with no real depth of understanding how they are changing education. [/quote]

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