Saturday, August 4, 2012
Out with the old and in with the OLDER
This week is back to school brain. Started poking around in my Words Their Way book which I love.
Our district adopted a new literacy curriculum (hmmm all the mucky mucks who wanted it have now left for jobs else where). This is not program our school wanted. We had Rigby years before but the touted as all new program has arrived. Not only is it the exact same program. Many of the big books and leveled texts are exactly the same as the ones sent to the Reading Resource Library from the old kits.
What a sad WASTE of money! Buying something we already own. Blah to those not in the classroom and not listening to their teachers.
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Is it a shame that money is just wasted and not spent on something that could REALLY help students and teachers?
ReplyDeleteThis is a double shame because we already had the same materials! And they stink which is why we replaced it 5 years ago.
ReplyDeleteIt frustrates me that so many important decisions about money and curriculum are handled by school boards that are often made up of people who have no background in education and worse are more interested in the bottom line than the educational benefits. It is something that I feel is a major fault in the education system today. Many of these people may feel that what worked for them as a kid should work for today's students without considering that today's students need to be prepared for jobs and careers that haven't even been invented yet. It is unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to happen all too often in education. The people that make the decisions on what teachers should be using are the teacher themselves, not people that aren't in the classroom anymore.
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