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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's baffling to me that any competent teacher could ever believe that "good readers" look at the pictures and guess and only consider the letters/sounds as a last resort. Did they never reflect on how they personallye r learned to read? Consider that for centuries people learned to read from books without pictures?[/quote]

Plenty of teachers didn’t believe this BS way of teaching but we are required to teach the curriculum. That’s our job. The problem started (like it almost always does) with the higher ups making decisions based on fads. The current fad is equity. Our LA curriculum is based on equity. Once our district heard that the curriculum is a knowledge building curriculum designed to promote equity and they bought it. Does it meet the needs of our students? Nope. Will they listen to us? Nope. So we are stuck with it and have to use it. Don’t assume we don’t what which end is up. We know but unless parents complain, nothing will change. [/quote]

Same at private schools.

Admin come back from some conference and rebuy the math or Socio emotional learning or tell us No More Graded Work.

Meanwhile someone’s making tons of money selling poorly designed new fad curricula that fail fail fail.

Most of the teachers I know have their kids in Catholic schools or hire tutors from k-3 for reading and math facts. Do not rely on a progressive public or private school in Wash DC.[/quote]

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