Comments on: Sample Outline for Third Grade Math Objectives http://pqme.org/uncategorized/sample-outline-for-third-grade-math-objectives/ Parents seeking math curriculum changes in the State College (PA) Area School District Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Barb http://pqme.org/uncategorized/sample-outline-for-third-grade-math-objectives/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Barb Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:58:35 +0000 http://pqme.org/?p=670#comment-377 I should clarify -- these are not standards required by SCASD for home-schoolers, merely an example of what home-school applicants are expected to provide to the district to be approved. Given that home-schoolers must submit a portfolio to SCASD at the end of the year for review to show that the child received instruction and made adequate progress, these sample objectives may be one thing that home-school supervisors would be expected to have covered and their home-schooled child to have successfully met. Interesting, eh? I should clarify — these are not standards required by SCASD for home-schoolers, merely an example of what home-school applicants are expected to provide to the district to be approved.

Given that home-schoolers must submit a portfolio to SCASD at the end of the year for review to show that the child received instruction and made adequate progress, these sample objectives may be one thing that home-school supervisors would be expected to have covered and their home-schooled child to have successfully met. Interesting, eh?

]]> By: Anonymous http://pqme.org/uncategorized/sample-outline-for-third-grade-math-objectives/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Anonymous Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:12:16 +0000 http://pqme.org/?p=670#comment-376 Barb, That is amazing - the District has higher standards for home-schooled students than it does for students learning math in school. Do you know if the home-school standards are made up by the District, or the state? This reminds me of when I was on the high school soccer team and two girls wanted to play on the boys' team. I went to a small high school with no girls' team and the boys' team did not have tryouts, but the girls had to pass a rigorous fitness test (60 situps in a minute, etc.) before they could play on the team - a test boys did not have to take. At the time I wondered if the purpose of the test wasn't just to discourage the girls from playing - the intent might be the same here. Steve Barb,
That is amazing – the District has higher standards for home-schooled students than it does for students learning math in school. Do you know if the home-school standards are made up by the District, or the state?

This reminds me of when I was on the high school soccer team and two girls wanted to play on the boys’ team. I went to a small high school with no girls’ team and the boys’ team did not have tryouts, but the girls had to pass a rigorous fitness test (60 situps in a minute, etc.) before they could play on the team – a test boys did not have to take. At the time I wondered if the purpose of the test wasn’t just to discourage the girls from playing – the intent might be the same here.

Steve

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