>Parents who didn’t support the “dumb dumb” math were talked down to and ignored to promote Math program sold by the text book publisher
“I was one of the parents who examined all four of the proposed elementary school math programs when they had an open house at cottage place. I voted for Singapore Math, along with many others. I have an engineering degree and know a little bit about math. Unfortunately, my vote was overruled.”
“I was one of the parents from my childs elementary school selected to participate in the very first focus group. I also reviewed all of the proposed elementary at Cottage Place and presented my input at that time. I, too, felt Singapore was the best and most appropriate program for our Ridgewood students. On both occasions, my iput was ignored. Why, you ask? Because I am a highly educated, working scientist and not a math educator! I was told that I did not understand the way children learn (despite the fact that I was heavily afterschooling all of my kids in math).”
“How about the math teachers that tell a class full of parents on back to school night NOT to help their children with homework because you (the parents) won’t understand it. Talk about the arrogance! The majority of parents probably have Master’s degrees and NOT from Montclair.”
“I do remember being talked down to by the math teacher. Sort of joking about parents not understanding new math. I may have missed something, but math is not new. The programs sold by the text book publishers are new and there is a sucker born every minute (Botsford).”
“How patronizing to pretend that parents don’t understand how to teach math. I have a middle schooler and I teach him math every night. He gets NOTHING from school.I teach him and he understands.”
