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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][img][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Orton-Gillingham follows the Science of Reading (phonics) and not Calkins

Highly recommend listening to the Sold a Story podcast before anyone goes to back to school night!

As the commenter notes on the first page mentioned, so many of the veiled Calkins teaching methods are noted on these private school website. It may not explicitly say her name anymore but the practice is still there.

Beauvoir, GDS, Maret, Sidwell, NPS - they all are still pushing the outdated (and not based on science) methods [/quote]

Is NPS using Calkins? I have never heard them say that but I did hear at back to school they are using writer’s workshop for writing and that was the first time I’d heard that. I thought they’ve said Orton in the past but maybe I misunderstood?

I honestly don’t know what approach NPS is using because it seems like a hybrid of “guess based on the picture” and memory worlds and phonics. I have been absolutely devoted to forcing her to practice phonics with me every night and teaching her letter combination sounds. It’s frustrating to see her looking at a picture and guessing the wrong word when she can easily sound it out. I have in the past had to keep asking her not to guess and to sound out the word and she tells me the school is telling her to look at the picture for clues.  [/quote]

I’m sorry but with the amount of $$$ you are paying for tuition, why aren’t you demanding that they stop this Lucy Caulkins insanity? [/quote]

Because demanding a school change their reading program always works so well! This comment is hilarious. It IS a big undertaking to change curriculums from LC to OG. It goes beyond teachers taking a 2 day course and buying new books. It takes a year + of training and at my DD's school all the teacher trainings are not about teaching but all about diversity and inclusion not about teaching children to read. I only wish they'd focus on adopting OG! Wouldn't that be nice. [/quote]

[b]Yeah - this country has lost its marbles over the DEI crap[/b]. Soon everyone will be included in the “nobody can read and write” club and it will be very diverse. [/quote]

Spoken like a true racist. It's the white supremacists who have lost their marbles over DEI. [/quote]

How dare you. You are so insanely ignorant and people like you are exactly why we have so much division. Moreover, to your surprise, I identify as a person of color. Believing that the obsession with DEI in schools is not a good use of limited energy and resources does not make someone racist or a white supremacist. A lot of people of color agree with this. You need to get out more. [/quote]

I really don't care if you identify as a person of color. Your internalized racism and classism is showing through loud and clear. [/quote]

Right and you are an unreasonable left wing radical who cries racism at any and everything. I follow the King’s teachings, you know judge people by the CONTENT of their character. Nobody gets a pass with me. You don’t need hours of DEI training - what you need is to teach ALL colors that the only thing that matters is the content of their character. [/quote]

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