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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it, you hate the Friday assemblies. But what’s your specific gripe with the CEEL curriculum’s community outreach?[/quote]

It just takes so much time away from academics and it's too intense for some of the kids.  [b]My kid always chooses the "easiest" one [/b]because they don't always want to have to debate injustices.  Just let the kids learn English, math, stem, and prepare for college.[/quote]

I don't understand how you can say that and that your kids want to be intellectually challenged.

As I tell my MS child, if you decide that you're going to be bored instead of engaged, you will be bored.[/quote]

You're just poking at the PP and you know it. Anyone who is familiar with the CEEL program knows that it isn't about academics and it certainly isn't about academic rigor. That's the issue. Parents would prefer that their kids receive academic instruction from teachers and not participate in so many field trips, assemblies, teach-in days that they complain about. By "easiest" one, I'm sure that the PP was meaning the least annoying one.[/quote]

My 8th grader did a CEEL field trip today that involved researching a current public policy, thinking of questions to ask experts on multiple sides of that issue, having a conversation with those experts, and reflecting on what they learned. Maybe not strict academic instruction, but exactly the kind of intellectual activity we chose gds for.[/quote]

Oh come on now. That was a History field trip. Good Lord you think they did all the actual work leading up to it with the CEEL team?  :lol: [/quote]

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