>The problem with Ridgewood Schools is that administration is not accountable.
There are one or two teachers in every school who should be teaching somewhere else. That is not the biggest problem facing the Ridgewood Schools.
The problem in this town is that administration is not accountable. They come up with programs and ideas that don’t always work. It takes them years to respond to their mistakes. Remember “writing to read”? Connected math will eventally be replaced with a better program, but it will be too late for many of the kids to catch up to where they should be. It is educational malpractice.
There was an article in the Ridgewood News about BF placing a suggested time limit on homework. That is not the solution. The problem is that kids leave class not understanding the work. In a normal math program they would have a text book to refer back to. Connected math does not have a text book and kids are left to Google their homework questions. The program is confusing and there is no book. That is the problem. Stressed out kids spending a lot of time trying to figure out the homework is just a symptom. I know of 6 kids in my daughter’s class who have gotten tutors this year(What would the number be if all of the parents had been asked about this?). This is an outrage! It is time to face up to the real problems in our math program. How many years does it take for the school to reevaluate and make the necessary changes??
