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[quote=Anonymous]NP. My 2nd grader did well in the fall and even higher percentile in the Spring. Attends a small no-name private. It seems very odd - and troubling - to me that a student would drop percentiles by so many points between fall and spring.

If it were my kid, I would switch to a school with a better curriculum -- and maybe supplement at home.

It is sad that parents need to vet curricula, but in some places that is where we are. For reading, during school tours we quietly took photos of reading materials with our phones. When we got home we looked up publishers, Ed Reviews, and such. I hope it is better now, but our public was using the Lucy Calkins crap and even some "good name" private schools mentioned here had the Fountas & Pinnell crap.  Bad reading curricula often teach "3-cueing" which can cause a solid reader to deteriorate. We narrowed to a small set of schools that were Phonics-centered but not Phonics exclusive (English also has many sight words). We got in to one of those schools and it has made all the difference for DC.[/quote]

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