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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP’s choices are to move to a school zone with higher expectations, move to a challenging private/parochial school, or sign up to supplement Phonics, reading, spelling, grammar, math, and the other academic subjects.  Maybe homeschool is an option too.[/quote]

OP here. No to homeschool. I am not a teacher and it’s part of my frustration. I know teachers have studied for years to teach. Their hands are probably tied because of the set curriculum, administration, state and national testing, etc etc. But we are in what is supposed to be a top district and I’m sitting here trying to research literacy methods and teaching DD phonics and spending hours and lots of money trying to find curricular resources to teach things I’m not qualified to teach. I feel like phonics, spelling, math past 1-9 are all things they should be learning in kindergarten through 1st.  Why am I spending hours looking through G-O method vs balanced literacy, researching ed articles about Lucy Caulkins, and trying to look through TPT and other state curriculums to see how math is being taught?

The same with music. I put in my hours every single week helping DD practice and take notes during lessons in an instrument I do not play, and find the top music is school is faffing about enrolling 8 and 9 year olds who have never touched an instrument. I am not personally one to put kids on an instrument at 3 or 4, but yes I do expect the top music school in the area to enroll students that young. Where are the 4 year old violinists if they aren’t in my area? Just NY and Seattle and LA?[/quote]

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