>You have to be kidding about the cart.
I have to provide the "other side" that makes district people do CRAZY things
like this. When I was supporting teachers in their classrooms we'd run across a
teacher in some schools who had kept every piece of an old basal series for
their grade level, and that's what they were using-in the same ways they always
did. They LIKED it and they had taught kids to read with it for years. Of
course if a child couldn't already read the stories the teacher wanted them
tested, too. I am talking a 1980 copyright of Macmillan maybe. JUST THINK how
crazy this drives a Language Arts Coordinator under the gun to raise test
scores, and trying to balance the use of basal and develop a workshop approach
too. What happens? The Language Arts coordinator gives up and mandates programs.
Don't get me wrong-I think collecting books from classrooms and sending books
home with teachers should be treated the same as Malpractice in the field of
medicine. It boils down to a great deal of distrust for teachers in varying
degrees at all different levels in our profession, and some of it is warranted.
I have been there.
john d.
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