A few weeks back when Micah and I attended the paretn teacher interviews I was a little shocked and a lot upset to find out that the school does not teach the children their multiplication tables. They teach them HOW to multiply, but there is ZERO class time reserved for repetition so the children memorize the tables.
To make that worse, Parker had to know his multiplication tables - as in have them memorized, within two weeks as the class was starting long division and you cannot divide without knowing your tables. At least not quickly.
So, at home we started teaching Parker the tables and it is going OK - ish. by the time he gets home from school, does his homework, it is supper time.This left him with very little play time. Which, fuck you, is important to a kid.
NOW.
I just got off the phone with Logans kindergarten teacher. Apparently he knows the ABC song, and can tell you what sound all of the letters make, but he does not know the names of the letters - he scored a 6 out of 26. The kicker? They do not teach the kids to recognize the letters in kindergarten. At all. They teach them the sounds the letters make BUT it is up to the parents to teach the kids the names.
WTF?
3 comments:
Wow. This all just FLOORS me...is this something he should have learned in a pre-school, or teachers really just expect parents to do their jobs for them?
Yeh, I'm going with a schooling fail on this one. Why would they test on something that they don't teach? I'd point that out to them.
They are TOTALLY falling down on the job. This is total horseshit. What exactly DO they do all day--if not teach the 3R's????
I would ask to see a copy of that teacher's lesson plans and take it up with the school board at the next meeting--and look into THEM getting my kid a tutor. ON SCHOOL TIME and ON THEIR DOLLAR--which excuse me? Wasn't thet YOUR dollar until you paid your taxes with it?
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