We watched A Charlie Brown Christmas tonight while we applied the finishing touches to our tree. Mady has 2 workbooks, which she worked on while we were decorating too. 1 is 5th grade and 1 6th grade, each for language arts, they just arrived (to appease her dear, biological, Dad, remember?) We were comparing the 2 workbooks. THEY WERE THE SAME! OMG! THEY ARE THE SAME!
They both began with nouns, then, plural nouns, pronouns, possessive nouns, singular possessive nouns...the exact same order! Why can't other people see PS is pretty weird? If you teach people something one time, and people get it, why do we continue to teach it to them year after year, after year? WAKE UP!
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I know it's so stupid!!! Poor Mady, she is to smart for this!
I think it's because that's what the system is based on - rote learning, and pounding it in their head so that they can remember it (but only long enough to be tested!)
If there isn't any interest there (and really, how can there be with such hit titles as "singular possessive nouns") they figure pounding is the way to solve the problems.
It's amazing the different conclusions we can come to when we step outside of it, isn't it?
Even my brother-in-law (my sister homeschools - in a more 'school at home' vein), thinks that no children will learn spelling, math, science, or history unless you repeat it over and over again.
(and sit down to have spelling quizzes.)
It amazes me that anyone actually believes that!
Wake up!, Indeed.
Spiral approach to learning. Not the approach other nations take. But it is the standard here. Another symptom of the one size fits all approach taken to education and how it is silly.
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