The Real Issue: The Curriculum

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "English and Textbooks, and Teaching in Middle Scho...":

This particular topic should be renamed ,"The curriculum". That is what is really the issue here. I bet most parents would agree that we as children were never given the amount of school and homework that our children receive. The HW is excessive with some teachers. Maybe one of the teachers on this blog could explain to me why any teacher in their right mind would load a child up with hw on halloween. There are some teachers that do give assignments to children on work that was never introduced .I know this to be a fact because my child has told me this on multiple occasions . I don't think slamming parents on this blog is to smart. I think the employees of our school district should give thanks on this holiday. Thanks for being employed while other districts have layed off teachers.As I have stated before there should be more anger directed at the administration and the BOE for the majority of the problems in our district because they are the ones that set the policies, curriculum, and political agenda. God forbid you say anything controversial at a pta or board meeting and you will be cast as a troublemaker. We need enough residents to complain to the board to a point that they will have to do something for fear of not being re elected again

English and Textbooks, and Teaching in Middle School

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Just the ELA Facts Ma'am...":

New English topic: How come we pay for middle school literature textbooks, but xeroxed short stories are sent home? The texts collect dust at home. How come teacher reads story to class on day 1 and on day 2 gives a test on story? Are kids supposed to teach the story to themselves?? Oh, more work for parents, no thank you. Need to bring back traditional teaching to our classrooms. Do vocab, read story, assign questions, discuss, write about THEN give test. Process should be 1 week to go over story.