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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve got a first grader in FCPS, was just talking with DW about how much time our DC will be missing over the next couple of weeks and we realized that she’ll learn a lot more at home with us during that time than she would in school.

Disappointing to hear it doesn’t sound much better in fifth grade. I wish they would focus on academics, not equity at the exclusion of all else.[/quote]

What are you even talking about?  How is "equity" being taught in 1st grade and taking away from academics?  Seriously.  Give specifics.[/quote]

DP.

Elementary math in FCPS now follows the lower standards of the “E3” math curriculum.  Yes, the “E” is for equity.

[b]Language arts have also been dumbed-down, again, for racial equity reasons.  Homework is discouraged because it is seen as racist / not equitable.[/b]

FCPS is desperate to “close the racial achievement gap.”  The easiest way to do that is to dumb-down the whole curriculum, which is exactly what FCPS is doing.[/quote]

There isn't LA homework because Benchmark doesn't have homework (yet), not because of equity or racism.  Part of the idea is that classwork is done in class where teachers can see and assist (and make sure kids are the ones doing it, no cheating) - but also, kids these days don't do homework.  This isn't an FCPS issue, it's across the board, all over the country.  Something has happened to Gen Z, maybe it's the pandemic, maybe it's chromebooks/phones? But kids just don't do homework anymore, and some don't do classwork either.  Wealthy kids, poor kids, neither of them do it.  [/quote]

To further the point you were making, Benchmark was picked from a list of possible LA options provided by [b]VDOE[/b]. So if PP wants to blame Youngkin's people over there for Benchmark (guessing they don't), I guess go for it?

But while FCPS picked it - and they should have picked Wit & Wisdom or Amplify CKLA, but whatever - VDOE allowed it.[/quote]

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