School district honchos eaten by hamsters, film at 11…
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However, school district “curriculum” honchos, before you take your head out, check to see if the OP is up there somewhere!
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This is completely asinine.
Scratch that. This is fucking stupid.
I’m a teacher. One week before school starts, after I’ve already put my room together and placed texts in desks, we find out that Some One at the District Office felt that our math program wasn’t aligned to California state standards (that I don’t understand as when we adopted the program, we were given a handout from the district that lesson by lesson told us which specific thread of the standard was being taught). Golly, what would work, Some One pondered.
<snap> I’ve got it! Take all the 5th grade texts. Give them to the 4th graders. Take all the 6th grade texts, give them to the 5th graders. Voila! Problem solved!
Oh, yes, and tell the teachers to stay on the same pace as before: one lesson a day. No time to pause–gotta get through that book before testing in April!
WHAT the FUCK are you THINKING!?
OUR TEST SCORES IN MATH HAVE BEEN GOING UP–A LOT–SINCE ADOPTING THIS PROGRAM! WHY ARE YOU FUCKING WITH IT?
I just graded a stack of math homework. I’m seeing way, waaaaay more 10-13% than I should, ever, but particularly in the beginning of the year which is supposed to be reviewing skills they already know. Of course, never mind that they’re expected to skip a full fucking year in the program. Never mind that this will make my math-phobics freeze and give up. Never mind that something has to give in my teaching day if I’m going to teach this in a way to catch the ones that are already falling. 2 hours of math, 2 hours of reading, hour and a half of science and social studies. Fine. Fuck anything creative.
Fuck you for making my students go through this. Fuck you for making me go through this. Get your distict-office-cubicled self into my classroom and try teaching long division (two digits into four digits) as a review on the second day of school. Stick around for the bewildered-to-angry notes from parents.
FUCK this.
You must be in the same school district as Tristan. 
“Fascist idiots” sound about right?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2438874
Er, Ruffian, where are the parents in all this? I know if La Principessa came home from 7th grade math class and was suddenly expected to do 8th grade math, after not having had 7th grade math, because when she was in 6th grade last year they were teaching 6th grade math that year to 6th graders, but now that they’ve changed it, they’re teaching 7th grade math to 6th graders and 8th grade math to 7th graders, so she never had 7th grade math…
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Anyway, we’d be down there at the Keil Building making dissatisfied noises.
Damn that sucks. I went through a year of hell as a 3rd grade Catholic school teacher, so I can sort of relate. Skipping an entire year of math?!?
You should think about contacting the local TV station. They’d eat that shit up and raise some hell.