Deep breath!
Over lunch I read about Everyday Math being reviewed in the Courier News . It's about time! This started a discussion between four Moms at N's friend's party. While we talked some math, language arts became the hot topic. Parent A has a kid who is dyslexic but she needed a lawyer to get reading help for her child. Parent B (hostess) has been asking for answers about our apparent lack of a coherent spelling/word study program at board meetings for years. She asked the board where has the program Bridgewater uses been tested before and was met with blank stares. She went back a month later, repeating the question still with no answers. I think it is a valid question. Perhaps I will ask it sometime too! I think she called BW a guinea pig. Is it? Parent C wants to know why the school district has no problem to call her for permission to test her older A-student daughter for the e-program, while she can't get her younger son tested for dyslexia for love nor money. I belie...