It's not bad, but it depends how the district uses it. I just brought it with me to my new district, in fact we had our initial training yesterday. Don't worry, I gave the teachers a comp day for it and they will not have to report until Tuesday the week before school. It the district says that is all you are going to use, then run away. The people as CScope will even tell you that you need to use other resources. My teachers are required to follow the scope and sequence. The lessons are optional. The lady that did our training said that over 800 districts use CScope, so good luck finding a district that doesn't use it. The people that think it is bad usually have one of two things happening 1) the district is not using as it is intended or 2) the teacher does not care that they aren't teaching the state standards and want to continue to do things their way. I like it because of the verbage. It tells exactly what students need to know and be able to preform the concept. Remember experts in the field are writing CScope. Some people will say that don't like the sequence, but their is a document that tells you if the student will be using the concept later in the year and the student does not have to master the objective on the first go around because they will see it again later in the year or in years to come. Example, elementary kids see place value every year, so why does a first grader have to master place value if they will see it again in second and third grade. The biggest thing I like to see, which is difficult, having teachers teach the concepts the same way. Why be taught differently year to year on the same concept? Kids would be more successful if the concepts were taught the same way from year to year. There's my two cents.