Scripted Texts: I Wouldn’t Last One Day

This first ‘this and that’ will be brief.

Here’s my question …

Is there anyone out there who can share with me the benefit   

                                           of  requiring a teacher to follow a ‘scripted’ text?

What if you had to choose between what you were ‘told’ to do and
                                                         what you ‘know is right’ for your students?

This research is from 2006-2008. It is 2024 - if it didn’t work then why would it work now?


I just do not get it. 

The teacher holds a book, reads the text (including the questions, directions of when to ‘point’ to a picture, etc…) and that’s that. You stick with the script and that’s the law. All of the students will learn and understand everything about Mesopotamia in kindergarten. 

No. They will not.

They. Will. Not.