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Originally Posted by edslunch
How are the new curriculums doing from a teacher and parent perspective?
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In my opinion, the new curriculum is pretty bad. It’s very information heavy and developmentally abstract. For example, students get introduced to the concept of mass and area in grade 1 and sound wave diffusion in grade 2. As an educator, the focus is always on all students, but the spirit of the new curriculum seems to be focused on your top end students who come from homes that will readily pay for tutors or have a parent who won’t be working late night shifts to make ends meet. Furthermore, I care much more about teaching students how to think critically and problem solve rather than rote memorize a ton of information. The pure volume of information in the new curriculum makes it so teachers have to just make kids memorize facts rather than learn conceptually and problem solve.