Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate computer programs. I want textbooks and homework on paper.

Amen, I don’t know when textbooks were phased out but every year I am disappointed there are none.

Textbook management is a nightmare. Also most of them are poorly written with numerous errors and school systems can't afford to keep replacing them. The reality is it is horrible to depend upon them. The companies don't make enough money to make it worth their while to publish a good product. This is backwards.

Then the school system should publish their own textbooks. This is what many virtual schools do including K12. Also most textbooks for homeschoolers are very well written. At the very least, students should be sent home workbooks for the year.

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Anonymous wrote:I was so sad the day my Kindergartener told me that her teacher didn’t read them books, she watched other people read her books on the TV.
- why are there no textbooks or workbooks?
- why does my kindergartner spend hours on her laptop daily
-get rid of all these weird apps and paid consultants

I’m a kinder teacher and this is very sad. Her teacher is lazy.

I had to use a few videos like this during Covid because we couldn’t use the rug (even last year!!!) but I tried to use my document camera instead and read a book myself. One of my goals this year was to read every book aloud because I planned ahead. I’ve mostly just used my on for non fiction books.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was so sad the day my Kindergartener told me that her teacher didn’t read them books, she watched other people read her books on the TV.
- why are there no textbooks or workbooks?
- why does my kindergartner spend hours on her laptop daily
-get rid of all these weird apps and paid consultants

I’m a kinder teacher and this is very sad. Her teacher is lazy.

I had to use a few videos like this during Covid because we couldn’t use the rug (even last year!!!) but I tried to use my document camera instead and read a book myself. One of my goals this year was to read every book aloud because I planned ahead. I’ve mostly just used my on for non fiction books.

Anonymous wrote:I was so sad the day my Kindergartener told me that her teacher didn’t read them books, she watched other people read her books on the TV.
- why are there no textbooks or workbooks?
- why does my kindergartner spend hours on her laptop daily
-get rid of all these weird apps and paid consultants

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP lost me at handwriting. Seriously? Next you are going to complain they don't teach kids how to darn their socks.

We want them to be comfortable with technology because technology is the future. Handwriting is dead. I am glad for enrichment activities that the school provides out of the common core whether it's trips, or art or STEM.

You want Handwriting? Geeze

Handwriting helps to imprint a feel for language - particularly cursive instruction. If you want Junior to grow up to be a SysAdmin, then by all means send them to a large DMV public school. (Former disgruntled MCPS parent who could say ditto to all of the critiques about FCPS. Our schools are targets for corporate sales. I saw leadership at Discovery Communications salivate over top 15 school budgets - hence the launch of Discovery Education twenty years ago.

Here’s the piece on cursive

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

I work as a sysadmin and plan to steer my kids into the field and spend all of my egregious sysadmin salary on a private ES which is one step from Amish in terms of the electronics available.

What school do you mind sharing?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate computer programs. I want textbooks and homework on paper.

Amen, I don’t know when textbooks were phased out but every year I am disappointed there are none.

Textbook management is a nightmare. Also most of them are poorly written with numerous errors and school systems can't afford to keep replacing them. The reality is it is horrible to depend upon them. The companies don't make enough money to make it worth their while to publish a good product. This is backwards.

Then the school system should publish their own textbooks. This is what many virtual schools do including K12. Also most textbooks for homeschoolers are very well written. At the very least, students should be sent home workbooks for the year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP lost me at handwriting. Seriously? Next you are going to complain they don't teach kids how to darn their socks.

We want them to be comfortable with technology because technology is the future. Handwriting is dead. I am glad for enrichment activities that the school provides out of the common core whether it's trips, or art or STEM.

You want Handwriting? Geeze

Handwriting helps to imprint a feel for language - particularly cursive instruction. If you want Junior to grow up to be a SysAdmin, then by all means send them to a large DMV public school. (Former disgruntled MCPS parent who could say ditto to all of the critiques about FCPS. Our schools are targets for corporate sales. I saw leadership at Discovery Communications salivate over top 15 school budgets - hence the launch of Discovery Education twenty years ago.

Here’s the piece on cursive

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

So is painting and other art. But it's also impracticable for work and school. You don't understand how much more elevated collaborative docs are in school and how much more they contribute to learning.
Try doing everything you do on paper and get back to us.Don't hold kids back because you don't understand this.

This is pure BS. So called collaborative docs mean that each student is doing a fraction of the work each could be doing on his or her own. If it's working so great for you, why are they barely literate, generally incapable of writing coherent sentences and unable to do basic arithmetic by the time they get to us in high school?
We're ranked towards the bottom of the OECD on PISA.

--HS teacher

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP lost me at handwriting. Seriously? Next you are going to complain they don't teach kids how to darn their socks.

We want them to be comfortable with technology because technology is the future. Handwriting is dead. I am glad for enrichment activities that the school provides out of the common core whether it's trips, or art or STEM.

You want Handwriting? Geeze

Handwriting helps to imprint a feel for language - particularly cursive instruction. If you want Junior to grow up to be a SysAdmin, then by all means send them to a large DMV public school. (Former disgruntled MCPS parent who could say ditto to all of the critiques about FCPS. Our schools are targets for corporate sales. I saw leadership at Discovery Communications salivate over top 15 school budgets - hence the launch of Discovery Education twenty years ago.

Here’s the piece on cursive

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

So is painting and other art. But it's also impracticable for work and school. You don't understand how much more elevated collaborative docs are in school and how much more they contribute to learning.
Try doing everything you do on paper and get back to us.Don't hold kids back because you don't understand this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+ the obvious and unethical self-dealing with preferred vendors for spirit wear, after school activities, etc.

yes! Exactly

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP lost me at handwriting. Seriously? Next you are going to complain they don't teach kids how to darn their socks.

We want them to be comfortable with technology because technology is the future. Handwriting is dead. I am glad for enrichment activities that the school provides out of the common core whether it's trips, or art or STEM.

You want Handwriting? Geeze

Handwriting helps to imprint a feel for language - particularly cursive instruction. If you want Junior to grow up to be a SysAdmin, then by all means send them to a large DMV public school. (Former disgruntled MCPS parent who could say ditto to all of the critiques about FCPS. Our schools are targets for corporate sales. I saw leadership at Discovery Communications salivate over top 15 school budgets - hence the launch of Discovery Education twenty years ago.

Here’s the piece on cursive

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

I work as a sysadmin and plan to steer my kids into the field and spend all of my egregious sysadmin salary on a private ES which is one step from Amish in terms of the electronics available.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder what your solution is, OP? Ours has been to send to a $$$$ private school. But even this school ramps up its tech use around 3rd or 4th grade according to hearsay. Not sure what to do after that.

LOL if you’re concerned about tech/vendor incursion, private solves precisely none of that. If a private school doesn’t take public money, FERPA doesn’t apply and they can do all sorts of fun things with your kid’s privacy and digital footprint.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP lost me at handwriting. Seriously? Next you are going to complain they don't teach kids how to darn their socks.

We want them to be comfortable with technology because technology is the future. Handwriting is dead. I am glad for enrichment activities that the school provides out of the common core whether it's trips, or art or STEM.

You want Handwriting? Geeze

Handwriting helps to imprint a feel for language - particularly cursive instruction. If you want Junior to grow up to be a SysAdmin, then by all means send them to a large DMV public school. (Former disgruntled MCPS parent who could say ditto to all of the critiques about FCPS. Our schools are targets for corporate sales. I saw leadership at Discovery Communications salivate over top 15 school budgets - hence the launch of Discovery Education twenty years ago.

Here’s the piece on cursive

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

I work as a sysadmin and plan to steer my kids into the field and spend all of my egregious sysadmin salary on a private ES which is one step from Amish in terms of the electronics available.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP lost me at handwriting. Seriously? Next you are going to complain they don't teach kids how to darn their socks.

We want them to be comfortable with technology because technology is the future. Handwriting is dead. I am glad for enrichment activities that the school provides out of the common core whether it's trips, or art or STEM.

You want Handwriting? Geeze

Handwriting helps to imprint a feel for language - particularly cursive instruction. If you want Junior to grow up to be a SysAdmin, then by all means send them to a large DMV public school. (Former disgruntled MCPS parent who could say ditto to all of the critiques about FCPS. Our schools are targets for corporate sales. I saw leadership at Discovery Communications salivate over top 15 school budgets - hence the launch of Discovery Education twenty years ago.

Here’s the piece on cursive

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

I work as a sysadmin and plan to steer my kids into the field and spend all of my egregious sysadmin salary on a private ES which is one step from Amish in terms of the electronics available.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate computer programs. I want textbooks and homework on paper.

Amen, I don’t know when textbooks were phased out but every year I am disappointed there are none.

Textbook management is a nightmare. Also most of them are poorly written with numerous errors and school systems can't afford to keep replacing them. The reality is it is horrible to depend upon them. The companies don't make enough money to make it worth their while to publish a good product. This is backwards.