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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isnt news. Maybe i am late to the party but just wanted to share anyway.
And has now incorporated phonics in its revised curriculum. But its too late for the students who struggled because of her. It’s appalling that our kid’s education is just a money making business and mcps continues to pick sub par curriculums over and over again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html[/quote]

As a mom, [b]I think it’s very important for parents to be paying attention to their little kids’ early reading, writing and math skills.[/b] Some of the school fads are  ridiculous. It’s pretty easy to see when it’s not working and to help your own kid. It’s also really, really fun and satisfying!! [/quote]

Of course it is! But the way some of the reading lessons were structured, kids were given books to bring home to read that THEY ALREADY KNEW. So of course they could "read" them! And teachers were saying that the kids were doing great and had learned to read when in reality, all they'd learned to do was memorize the books. So yes, paying attention is great, but parents WERE paying attention and still weren't finding out until later (maybe even multiple years later) that their kids couldn't actually read.

This isn't me blaming teachers, it's me blaming a sh*t curriculum that just made its inventors money and actively harmed students. [/quote]

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