My children are already 4 weeks into their year round school, grades 1 and 4 and this curriculum is terrible. What I'm doing now is trying to organize parents to go to the media, PTA etc. with the facts. I'm doubtful it will do much good. I found out that they've already purchased 5 years of this program at an exorbitant price.
Next job is to find out how to make enough $$ to put them into private school I guess.
MKM
That Math Trailblazers program is going to be a boon for Sylvan's and Huntington's after-school tutoring programs.
Children's brains experience their most rapid growth, in areas determined by their environment, up to the age of eight. Unfortunately, too many parents will not realize the problem until their kids are past this critical point. Although I am firmly opposed to Nintendo and Gameboy, it may be that they will be the only opportunity kids will get for developing their spacial skills, systemic rigor and pattern recognition abilities.
The fact is that unless parents keep up a relentless demand for the basics--Reading, Writing and Arithmetic--the administrators will be content believing that their job is character development, recruitment/creation of liberals, and sexuality training.