On 9/02/08, Samantha Wienke wrote:
> I am a recent graduate who has subbed for several years. I
> have experience with Success for All, but the school I am
> interviewing with uses Scott Foresman Reading Street. I
> was hoping to get some veteran teacher's insight on this
> reading curriculium. What are it's strengths and
> weaknesses? How does it tie into the atrategies kids use
> to learn to read (phonemic awareness, phonics,
> comprehension, vocabualary, fluency) and in what ways do
> you supplement the curriculium? The district also uses
> Step up to Writing. If you have any information on that
> I'd really appreciate it as well. I'd love to get this job
> and I appreciate any insight you have!

Find another job! The Foresman Reading Street and Everyday
Math programs are antithetical to learning. They are
remedial programs that have been mainstreamed for the
general population. They are the inside JOKE of educational
administrators and the laughingstock of the political
elements who have profited dearly from the gross stupidity
of the scholastic community. As a teacher, to use such an
inept curriculum is to endorse the BILLIONS of dollars that
have been stolen from the taxpayers. The so-
called "scientific" proof that these programs facilitate
learning has come under scrutiny and failed. It is neither
scientific nor proof. One reason is that the samples were
skewed. In the very state that was cited in NCLB, Everyday
Math has been eliminated! Those who perpetrated this fraud
have been taken to task, publicly, yet numb skulls who
lobbied for it refuse to admit that they had the wool pulled
over their eyes. Just look at the test scores from the
districts that use the programs; they are proof, in
themselves. The schools buy into these silly (and very
expensive) programs, but them lose funding and jobs because
they can't meet the standards set forth by the same
administrators and legislators who tucked the kickbacks in
their breast pockets. It's a Ponzi game! A scam. Any
educator who takes a moment to actually think about the
curriculum has refused to use it, even if in secret. It's
every teacher's responsibility to his profession to refuse
to use this garbage. It's nother less than Haliburton in
the school system, only Haliburton probably accomplished
something.

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