Perhaps it’s time to think about a new educational venue for her.
I think it works like this:
The schools purchase a crazy math and a crazy reading curriculum at great expense to the taxpayer, and even if they prove to be an abject failure, since they paid so much for them, they will use them, even if they are detrimental to your child and they know that they are detrimental to your child and every other child in the school. They don’t care, they will carry on, hoping for the best, but secretly knowing that the programs are the worst. They will never admit that they are failures — they will use the excuse that parents are too stupid to understand them. Math and reading scores will plummet because the stupid parents can’t fathom the new math or reading curricula and help their children, not that the teachers understand the programs or have the ability to help the children either. However, there is great hope that the next crazy math or reading program will be a success, but that’s after the superintendent and school board have long since gone and a new superinendant and board is in place, with a new crazy math and crazy reading program.
“... they will use the excuse that parents are too stupid to understand them. “
And that is deliberate. How dare the parent challenge the enlightened “teacher”. And if the parent tries to teach the child the traditional way, the parent gets hit with criminal charges. It has happened, in NYC. And the father, trying to teach his daughter the old way to do math (the way that works) was black, which reinforces my view that inner city schools are administered by racists who do NOT want the child to learn - need to make more welfare clients for the Cloward Piven strategy.
Next up - if the student on his/her own initiative learns to old way, then it’s time to drug the student.
I have always viewed Montessori as some flaky New Agey stuff, however I am re-considering that position.
My 9th grade son just told me a funny about his geometry teacher who used to be a bouncer.
On the first day of school, he told the class to get out their new math books and “put those effing POS’s in the cardboard box.”
He then distributed the older math books that actually had real math and real instructions for doing it.
He is one of my son’s favorite teachers but his language is a bit uh-colorful.
I’m okay with it if he’s teaching the boy real math though.