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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know OP. My 6th grader has zero knowledge of how big the US is or where it is in relation to other countries. He was shocked that it takes less time to fly to the Dominican Republic than San Francisco. I said, “Look at the map - California is much further away.” He said “We learned in Social Studies that maps are bad because they make Africa look small.” 🤡 [/quote]

I'm sorry, did you expect us to believe this? What a dim view of educators you must have, to think that parents would believe such clearly fabricated nonsense.[/quote]

this is what he told me! if your DCPS child had lessons in basic geography - identifying states and countries on a map - let us know. [/quote]

6th grade at Deal last year and there was a lot of emphasis on maps and geography.  He was better at identifying countries in Africa and Eastern Europe than I was. They covered maps of the whole world by continent and the US by state. [/quote]

We all know that Deal is the only functioning middle school in DCPS, so it's not really representative of the rest of DCPS as all. Of course DCUM wouldn't know this because all of DCUM resides within the Deal boundary.[/quote]

My 7th grader is at Jefferson and does all of the items that were listed at being taught at Deal. In 6th grade did geography, maps, state capitols, etc. In 7th is doing ancient civilizations, beginning with hunter gatherers and is now learning about Hinduism. They have researched debates every Friday where students cite evidence on their topic. They did a research paper comparing and contrasting female rulers of different civilizations. To say that Deal is the only MS doing this work is incorrect.

And in our IB ES, we did westward expansion, origin of the US, the American Revolution, some civics (how a bill becomes a law, etc) and native tribes in various locations of North America.[/quote]

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