These parents crusading against their children’s math curriculum make my ears bleed, even when reading about it.
But many parents are lobbying the School Board to kill the program. Opponents have submitted a petition with 1,000 names and started a Web site, http://www.pwcteachmathright.com. They have been checking out a video called “Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth.”
I’ve come across these types of questions with my 3rd grader. They use instructions like “Show all your work. Explain in words how you got your answer (the steps you did) and why you did the steps you did to solve the problem.” Kids have to actually plan how to solve a problem and write about how they went about it? Sounds good to me.
More to the point, why parents periodically get involved in these heated, psychotic battles is beyond me. We’re talking about the people who work with your kids for 6 hours a day, 160 days a year. The rest is up to you. If you don’t 100% agree with every single thing that happens in those 960 hours a year, so what? Get over yourself.