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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]schools with no books... is that funny or sad?? [/quote]

First, it was SHOCKING.  We are in elementary level now...

Now, I know it is just HORRIBLE.  Why? Because there is no way to find out what is gonna be taught next week, and provide appropriate support at home.

I naively asked the teacher for a breakout of new content [math topics] to be taught by weeks (forget days!).  I told the school FCPS "program" online is too general to figure out what is going on on a daily-basis.  I got a fuzzy answer (as usual) basically suggesting that material gets decided upon based on how kids do; it is subject to adjustments after discussions regarding how kids absorbed the material; so it is basically not available in advance.

So, what we get is random pages of school work on a weekly basis which shows what they did.  If your kid is forgetful, you may not get the folder timely, and good luck finding out what has been taught.  However, when your kid's grades go down, you will find out what should have been learnt which was not learnt.  Post-factum that is.  When the grading has been done already...

Coming from a system where [b]each subject was text-booked[/b], and therefore structured towards very clear learning goals, it is extremely frustrating to swim in uncertainty of what is it that they are learning...  Of course I can talk to my kid and find out what happened during the day, but 1st / 2nd graders may leave a lot of things out.

{"I would storm out of here right now if I had a place to go or money to spend" -- someone from Friends said something like this...}

What I wonder is whether there is an active advocacy group for improving FCPS approach to textbooks (?).  If the goals are set for each grade, why not indeed have a core textbook, and supplement it with more whatever forward-looking / modern / latest thinking materials as needed?  [/quote]

This post is funny.  First grade math isn't that confusing.  Parents can figure it out if they feel they need to reteach or preteach it.  [/quote]

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