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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should have been working with them at home OP.  Everyone knows that.[/quote]

Parents shouldn’t be the primary instructor for foundational skills like writing. [/quote]

Yes they should.   If you refuse to stop complaining.   It’s part of parenting.  [/quote]

Are you a trained educator?  What are you specifically doing with your kids at home to teach them to write properly?[/quote]

You don’t need to be an educator to teach your kid the basics.  [/quote]

The problem is that this refrain comes up for everything- phonics, spelling, writing, history, math, etc. "You should have been working with your child at home."  WTF are they doing all day at school if we're expected to do this much supplementing at night in addition to their assigned homework?  If they're not even getting "the basics" at school than what is the point.[/quote]

Exactly!  I'm a prosecutor.  I'm protecting you all from criminals committing crimes in your neighborhoods.  Then I should also teach all school subjects when I get home?  Do the teachers prosecute crimes when they get off of work? GTFOH.[/quote]

I think you should be a parent and part of being a parent is education.  It is your job to help educate your kids and ensure they get what they mean.  If you are too busy to spend even 15 minutes a day you have no business having kids. [/quote]

DP but if you think you can teach your kids all their subjects in even 15 minutes a day you have no business in this conversation.

As a PP said, if parents are expected to provide the education, WTF is the point of sending the kids to school all day?[/quote]

In preschool and Es we heavily supplemented.   If your kids are not strong in a subject and you will not help, stop complaining.  We still help out older kids and proof read their papers.  [/quote]

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question- but if your child is receiving mostly As and the teacher says they're doing great, how do you know what they aren't strong at?  We supplemented our older DC with phonics before MCPS introduced RGR because the 3-cueing method wasn't working for him.  But that was an obvious hole.  As he gets older it is less clear to me what he needs- everyone says the curriculum is bad.  I don't want to get to high school and find they can't write, but if they are already meeting MCPS grade-level benchmarks what benchmarks should I be using instead to identify the deficiencies?

Again, I'm really sorry if this is a dumb question.  I did not grow up in an American educational system, where I went to school teachers were highly respected and did the teaching.  My parents were not expected to do all this extra teaching at home....[/quote]

The new ELA curriculum being implemented this year is very good. It was the one they retired at the end of last year that was bad.[/quote]

I have a friend who is an MCPS teacher in lower elementary. She hates the new ELA curriculum. She told me the way they’re now forced to teach phonics makes no sense. [/quote]

Can you briefly explain what it is/how it’s bad? We were planning to transfer to MCPS next year. [/quote]

She told me that the way the curriculum presents groups of phonics concepts is haphazard and includes little explanation about why various digraphs and blends, for example, operate the way they do in English. She said the kids are expected to just spit out phonetic patterns without really understanding the concepts.

She said the accompanying texts the kids are supposed to read for the lesson include phonics concepts the kids haven’t learned yet, so they aren’t equipped to be able to read the text.

This is for 2nd grade, so they’re very much still in the process of learning to read.[/quote]

That's because they are starting it for the first time this year. In 2 years the 2nd graders will have had K and 1st with the curriculum and will be in much better shape.

This curriculum is much, much more challenging than the one they used previously. It's going to be a rough transition for kids/teachers used to the slow pace and simpler content from before. But younger kids in particular are really going to benefit in that they will have many years with the new curriculum.[/quote]

Why can’t they just find a curriculum and stick with it?

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I'd rather have them move to a high-quality, standards-aligned curriculum than stick to one that is bad. Ideally, of course, they would choose the good curriculum the first time around, but when that doens't happen, they should switch.

[b]The worst curriculum of all, of course, is 2.0. And they are still using that in high school. They even doubled down on it this year by "revising" the 2.0 HS English curriculum and made it worse. I[/b] don't understand why they don't just use external curricula, especially when some of the best are available for free.[/quote]
Why do trolls keep posting things that they have no clues about them?
C2.0 WAS NEVER implemented in HS.[/quote]

Well, MCPS has its own high school curriculum. Maybe it's not called 2.0, but it is crap.[/quote]
Again,  you have no idea of what you're talking about.  [/quote]

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about.[/quote]
You're the one who ignorantly claimed:

[quote]The worst curriculum of all, of course, is 2.0. And they are still using that in high school. They even doubled down on it this year by "revising" the 2.0 [/quote]
Keep digging yourself into a hole but then again, you're a troll, trolls have no shame. [/quote]

So you think the high school English curriculum, which [b]MCPS created itself but the state has said is well below grade-level standards[/b], is good? [/quote]
When did the state say that?
You keep spewing ignorance [/quote]

Watch the Curriculum Committee's educational equity workshop from last year.

I see that you keep attacking people but don't actually defend the curriculum. Keep on troling....[/quote]

Do you know where to find a link?[/quote]

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