Accept accountability - Do Not Appeal

Seattle District spokeswoman Patti Spencer said:
"This is a very surprising decision, and the District is now evaluating its next steps. Seattle Public Schools followed an extensive process in adopting these materials, which were thoroughly vetted by a diverse group including mathematicians and teaching professionals."

It seems Ms. Spencer is a bit off task as she failed to address the result. From the beginning the District treated this case as …… if we go through “right steps” then the result is just excellent, because really who cares about answers.

Once again the district thinks that the process is all-important and the result or answer does not matter. Being reform math devotees they assumed that the answer does not matter because full credit will be awarded for process.

Welcome to the Real World math, where the answer matters.

Whatever would be the basis of the appeal?

Big news you will need to address your failure to get the right answer. Oh pardon me. You are appealing you must think you have the right answer.
It is now time for you to prove it.
Oh my gosh all you have is Discovering Geometry and all the theorems and any shot at formal proof is in the last chapter. It is only February, so you are just out of luck.

OK so prove it by checking your work. Where is your work?
No. I am sorry the cherry-picked data from Madison, Wisconsin will not cut it. It is not relevant data as it was cherry-picked off of a much larger selection.
You said this high school choice was made to produce vertically aligned instructional materials k-12. So let us look at the results from k-5.

Oh you hear your mother calling and it is time for you to go home.
I agree.

Because the Discovering Books were rated Mathematically unsound that is why they align with your k-8 materials.

The district's preference for reform math and inquiry materials has widened the math achievement gaps of many subgroups of disadvantaged learners over the last decade while those gaps in Language Arts shrank significantly over the same period.

The discovery/inquiry IMP materials used at Cleveland and Garfield saw ELL pass rates go to 0% in 2008, while the Percentage of Cleveland Black students rose to above 70% classified as far below basic level = level 1

The district ignored principal major elements of the NMAP report. Most flagrant was the strong recommendation for the increased use of “Explicit Instruction”.

Citizen comments were not even submitted to the court by the district as a basis for the decision nor was the NMAP report submitted. The plaintiffs submitted many citizen comments to the court. Many were data rich. Plaintiffs also submitted the NMAP report, because they felt it should have been used in the decision making process.

A board member clearly found the individual experience of her child relevant to her decision but her child may have little to nothing in common with the educationally disadvantaged learners that the district so routinely ignored in their flawed decision making on math materials over the last decade.

Contrary to the claim of the District as “Discovering” being a balanced program, the court found the texts to be an inquiry-based program. The publishers call the program Discovering and said that it is an investigative program. The court found the publisher’s claims to be true and did not find the “Discovery Program” balanced.

Don’t appeal just remember:
"Every student achieving, everyone accountable." -- It appears the court is now demanding everyone accountable…. Forget any appeal thoughts if you are modeling accountability.
Or is the desire not to be accountable.
Let's finally walk the talk.
Rerun the process correctly and this time try to produce the correct answer the students deserve. Better Late than Never.