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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids public has 400 kids who all come from educated and middle to upper class families. If Why hasn’t there been a peep about curriculum concerns, let alone an uproar? Is it possible that the entire teaching staff, district admin, and parents are ALL clueless? I find that hard to believe. They use F&P balanced literacy and writers workshop. I don’t know about upper elementary, but so far there’s been no homework except a weekly set of graded readers in K and 1st, and 1 math worksheet per week in 1st-2nd.

I will say virtually no students coming out of our “award winning” top high school go to top 20 colleges. A big 10 state school is the end all be all of coveted reach. [/quote]
What are you talking about?  There's been a nationwide uproar for several years about this.  It's been huge in the educational world.  If you don't know about it and have a kid in elementary school, then you have your head in the sand.  Listen to the Sold a Story podcast to catch up and then read some news.[/quote]
Examples of coverage: 
The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/lucy-calkins-child-literacy-teaching-methodology/680394/

Forbes- https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2021/11/21/problems-with-lucy-calkins-curriculum-go-beyond-reading-to-writing/

NYTimes-
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/lucy-calkins-teachers-college.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/podcasts/the-daily/reading-school-phonics.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/lucy-calkins-race-gender-curriculum.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/opinion/letters/reading-phonics.html

Vox-
https://www.vox.com/23815311/science-of-reading-movement-literacy-learning-loss

Boston Globe -
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/metro/science-of-reading-lawsuit-calkins-fountas-pinnell-heinemann/

Education Week-
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/4-things-to-know-about-the-literacy-lawsuit-targeting-lucy-calkins-and-fountas-pinnell/2024/12

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/parents-sue-lucy-calkins-fountas-and-pinnell-and-others-over-reading-curricula/2024/12

NYPost -
https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/repairing-the-damage-columbias-teachers-college-did-to-american-kids-will-take-years/

Slate-
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/reading-phonics-literacy-calkins-curriculum-public-school.html

The New Yorker-
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibes-based-literacy

CBS News-
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/literacy-materials-dropped-by-many-schools-face-new-pressure-from-struggling-readers-parents-2/

Newsweek-
https://www.newsweek.com/our-terrible-education-system-not-pandemic-blame-low-test-scores-opinion-1810588

Etc.[/quote]

Soon some company will come along with the “next best thing.” The SWEAP of reading that integrates science, writing, engineering (technical writing), the arts, AND phonics to sell another story. Yippee!  More money![/quote]

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