ECISD new curriculum requirements

THE STORY: New curriculum requirements for ECISD include four years of science and math.

THE LINK: www.oaoa.com/news/four-43341-nall-dobbins.html

THE POLL: Do you think students need take four years in each of the core subjects?

>> Yes: 80 percent (8 votes)

>> No: 20 percent (2 votes)

>> workingmom: “I think the 4x4 is good. I had foster kids under this program in Dallas and they did really good. However I think they should begin planning and talking with the kids and parents in 8th grade so they will be ready for the 9th grade.”

>> oldodessan: “Well, okay, I guess. Seems like a little knowledge of how our bodies work and a chance to develop lifetime habits of fitness might have had some value, as well as technology training.

Just not sure what good calculus is going to do a 300 pound five foot tall teenager who keeps fathering children or keeps having them and who doesn’t know why.”

>> nehemiah2: “the drop-out rate will go through the roof.”

>> proudbroncho: “The four-by-four is simply an attempt to make our kids more marketable in their futures. The health requirement can be taken care of in a biology class (but in districts committed to abstinence only, baby mamas and daddies are still gonna be trolling the elementary, junior high, and high school hallways). Physical education is a bit of a joke when most people can get the requirement out of the way in one semester of 9th grade (can still tip the scales into obesity in those last 3 and a half years of high school). Going to a block schedule in which students attend 5 classes a day will allow students the opportunity to knock out 10 classes a semester instead of 8. Electives are of little use to children who can’t read, write, do basic math, or compete in the global marketplace.”