NYC kids are so unchallenged by dumbed-down curriculum they read novels in math class
Story by Susan Edelman, Deirdre Bardolf • 1d
Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say.
Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars for tutors or flee in search of more challenging programs, parents say.
Parents in District 2, which covers most of Midtown, Lower Manhattan and the Upper East Side, are demanding accelerated math classes in elementary school and geometry starting in middle school to keep kids on par with their peers elsewhere in the city and country.
“Kids are reading novels in math class because they are bored,” Danyela Egorov, a member of District 2’s Community Education Council, told Superintendent Kelly McGuire during a recent board meeting.
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