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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why doesn’t MCPS teach phonics in early elementary? Is benchmark as bad as it seems to parents? [/quote]

Having a one size fits all curriculum doesn’t work when the country is as diverse as our county is. [/quote]

How does this answer either question? [/quote]

You know what’s also diverse, OP? The 20+ years or scientific research showing how kids actually learn to read. Phonemic awareness is a HUGE part of that. This is what’s wrong with MCPS! Well tenured teachers have no clue of the outside world and are brainwashed by MCPS dogma. [/quote]

Not OP here, I’m beginning to wonder if OP is coming back.

I agree with you that phonics is vital and agree that in the past MCPS has been resistant to it. (I don’t know about the new curriculum that was selected after the audit, I was hoping that use a phonics approach).  I think, however, the brainwashing goes back to teacher training and ed schools.  It’s been called by different names, but balanced literacy, whole language, look-say, etc., has been promoted for years as the enlightened way to teach reading.  Years ago, the state of Maryland mandated the state colleges of education teach phonics, and professors protested the requirement.

https://cnsmaryland.org/2003/12/05/phonics-mandate-angers-teachers-of-teachers/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading (History of Learning to Read)

Further, I think that MCPS has generally de-emphasized content, across all subjects, especially in early grades. Again, I hope that the new curriculum will address this shortcoming but have no data on the matter.

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Benchmark is terrible and the current elementary ELA director for MCPS flat out told parents that MCPS has been teaching reading incorrectly for at least 10 years. They are looking to PG and Baltimore for advice on how to teach kids to read based on science! Unfortunately, there are still many years left in the contract with Benchmark. We need to advocate the state to adopt policies like Mississippi that limit school districts to spending public money only on curriculums that support the science of reading.

You can’t give any good argument about the brainwashing of MCPS. The largest reading tutor training center on the east coast is in Rockville, yet MCPS REFUSES to send teachers to train in methods based on the science of reading. [b]Their answer is to send a handful of staff to get ISME training and have those people train MCPS teachers. [/b]We know this will be a shit show. [/quote][/quote]

Not a MCPS teacher but in another district in MD. I just took the ISME training and they clearly state that those who complete the training cannot go back into their schools to train others. You'd need to complete the practicum first and there was another hurdle before you'd be able to train others.[/quote]

Maybe the wrong teacher is responding :-)[/quote]

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