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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fcps cant find a textbook that covers their wonky curriculum so they cherry pick here and there off the internet, have teacher enrichment days, and make kids glue stick ditto sheets into their gigantic spiral notebooks, and the like. 
Math is so jumbled. I wish there was a textbook to give parents an insight of how this stuff is being taught. Apparently, the way we learned long division is not the preferred method - they teach it differently, for example. I couldnt help DS with the long division worksheet bc his teacher had a different approach, which I had never heard of, and it was confusing. And forget Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (It's GEMDAS now).
Kids learn spelling and vocab through reading and writing. No rote memorization. No writing out the words 10x to learn them, etc. No handy vocab workbook to practice words.
VA history is nothing but worksheets, a few boring guest speakers, and a field trip to the Smithsonian [/quote]

Preach. I totally agree. It’s pathetic![/quote]

I agree with your sentiment but some of what you are saying (well, everything you are saying about Math) is not FCPS or even Virginia, but the Common Core. Officially Virginia is one of the few states that has not adopted the Common Core (we don't need it because we have our own Standards of Learning) but everybody teaches Math this way. I am not a fan, but that's another discussion/thread.

As to the lack of textbooks--textbooks are increasingly a thing of the past everywhere and at every level. I am a college professor and think that this mostly unfortunate. Without the textbook, the teachers have to spend so much more time gathering and creating material that ideally would have been prepared by true experts and vetted (ideally...) by more experts. How a teacher uses the material is an entirely different matter. You can still have textbooks and teach in an interactive way, for goodness sakes![/quote]

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