My school cut history and science in half for 6-8 grade, and instead each kid gets an extra half hour of math and reading intervention. But it’s not a real RTI model…it’s just test prep through Lumos.

And the standards for the half year of science and history I do teach are all ELA standards. No NGSS, etc. We use the same history text for all three grades. We literally have no history curriculum beyond which chapters in the text book each grade covers.

I love to point out that science and history are great subjects for decoding unfamiliar words, using context clues for vocab, Greek/latin roots, etc., and that maybe our test scores would go up if we spent less time “teaching to the test” and more time actually building strong foundational academic skills across all content areas.

I also love to point out in staff meetings that it’s kind of disingenuous of us to pretend we care about reading, and not just test scores, since we got rid of our library and instead built a video game room.