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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, but how is this a Churchill specific issue? This is true in most good schools in the area. Many math teachers can't teach well enough, don't try due to overload, or just don't care. And luckily some are pretty good and do care, but unluckily they are probably in the minority.[/quote]

From what I gathered at Back to School Night, as a department, Churchill writes the worksheets and writes the assessments prior to the county assessment.  The problem is when the students have to take the county mandated test, there are gaps in concepts.  My children have reported (including this year), there were problems on assessments that they had not been taught.  If you are in an Honors class, the teacher has the line "Your in Honors.  You are supposed to figure out the extensions on your own."

I can only speak to the Churchill experience.  I don't know if math is being taught this way across the county.  It seems there is no defined math curriculum right now so Churchill is struggling to come up with it's own and they are not professional curriculum writers.  Perhaps this is a Central Office problem or Churchill is the rogue outlier.  I don't know but whatever the issue, math sucks at Churchill.  Tutoring is your only option for saving your child.[/quote]

+1 Absolutely agree! Same experience with my kids.[/quote]

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