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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone should be held accountable for the costly mistake with Benchmark.

The working group of educators who reviewed the various options did not support Benchmark. So who made the decision to go against the recommendation?

Big, expensive mistake that negatively impacted students.

Where’s the accountability?[/quote]

I used to volunteer in a school with kids who struggled to read and did 1:1 tutoring. By third grade if they weren’t reading well it was too late. They just fell farther  and father behind each year, despite all kinds of interventions. Self esteem tanked, and these kids hated reading and school. It’s terrifying to me to think of how many hundreds - or thousands - of kids have not learned from this lousy, awful curriculum and have no idea how to read and instead have been taught to use pictures to guess words, or to guess words based on whatever words look similar, and have no idea how to sound out words, and will now be on the receiving end of a million interventions to undo the damage of Benchmark. Many will never recover. Someone needs to
Be accountable for this! [/quote]

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