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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Textbooks are useful as a resource.  The fourth grade Virginia Studies textbook is well written and engaging. (though the first edition had problems)  Students learn reading skills such as how to use headings and text features, and how to find the main idea in sections.

Not having a math textbook is a terrible idea.  Parents want to know what is going on so they can help their kids.  Instead, teachers have to come up with a variety of resources and essentially reinvent the wheel.[/quote]

The math textbook is online, no?[/quote]

Yes, but we have not used it.  The online math textbook in FCPS is new this year and is only to be used as a resource.  It's also not very good.   I'm a teacher, but I know that many parents would like to have a solid reference to refer to, when it comes to math.  They want to be able to help their kids.

Math textbooks are not bad. [/quote]

DW and I are both elementary teachers. She teaches math and uses it as a resource. She says she uses Discovery and likes it, but understands lower grade teachers don’t care for Origo. Neither one of us says textbooks are bad. No teachers I know think that, but to complain that there “is no textbook” is a false complaint.

[b]Neither one of us assign homework,[/b] but if something goes home that a student doesn’t understand and the parent has difficulty with, I think they should stop and let the teacher know.[/quote]

You don't assign homework at all? What grade do you teach? [/quote]

Elementary grades.

There are entire schools with no homework policies. It’s not unusual.[/quote]

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