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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hold on - there are no textbooks in APS??? My DS is starting K and we are keeping him at current preschool for the K year because of small class and were then planning to move to an APS ES school. I'm going to date myself here, but kids don't have workbooks like "Wordly Wise," etc or books for social studies reading or math problems? What do they have? I have a PhD in the humanities and my main way of learning was reading independently - hate group work etc. Is that all there is in APS? Tell me more![/quote]

For real. It's awful. The only time I ever saw a textbook was one time when I had a sick child who had to miss a few weeks of school. There are limited textbooks, so they tend not to be used, plus they don't match up with what is being taught. Don't expect spelling lists, either. Or handwriting skills.

See the discussion about moving copiers out of schools because APS is moving away from paper. This is Murphy's legacy. I hope it turns around.

Some schools are probably better. Does ATS use textbooks? That's probably your best bet.

The math thing is horrible. When my oldest was learning how to do long division, they taught five different ways to do it and she never mastered any of them. I see the value in different brains work different ways so it's good to have options, but where APS failed us was we didn't get enough repetition at one way so the kids could really learn. And because their grades were fine, I never really realized the deficits. That's on me, I should have been paying closer attention, but I believed the line that "all APS schools are good."

We switched to private this year. If I had known then what I know now, we would have done it much sooner.[/quote]

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