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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Find where high achieving immigrants hang out. Seriously - RSM classes, private music teachers, etc. Your kid will at least know another peer group with higher expectations. [/quote] Yeah this. I find the standards of high income wasp types are sort of mediocre regarding academics and music. - Raised by immigrants [/quote] I was raised by immigrants and I see things really differently. I think immigrants pound the creativity out of their children with rote memorization. I think Wasps recognize that not everyone is a genius and no amount of pressure or forced math practice is going to turn their mediocre child into one. I think Wasps realize the point of learning piano is to have a fun hobby and sometimes play a song for your friends at get togethers throughout the course of your life, not to impress your mom’s friends or foster her delusion that you have a chance to play professionally at Carnegie Hall. I think Wasps actually have a much better handle on how to promote creativity and invention than recent immigrants do. That’s why we wanted to be here and not wherever we came from. And didn’t Anglos invent penicillin, the plane, the computer, the telephone, air conditioning, etc.? I’d say they know what they’re doing, no? [/quote] Nope, see who is winning all the innovation awards in USA right now: https://science-fair.org/2023/11/03/thermo-fisher-scientific-jic-announces-2023-winners/#:~:text=Congratulations%20to%20Adyant%20Bhavsar%2C%2013,version%20of%20a%20triboelectric%20nanogenerator. https://www.invent.org/collegiate-inventors/finalists [/quote] To be smart first you have to have facts pounded in your head at a young age so you understand the basic grammar of each kind of subject and have a solid foundation. Then your creativity will thrive [i]based on what you already knew[/i]. In the western world we used to know that until the "education innovators" started ruining everything as early as the 19th century.[/quote] Everyone should read this! My kindergartener is praised over and over for "brave spelling" and never gets anything corrected. Some things really do need to be practiced and yes, memorized. Why can't we correct one or two words per assignment or per week for a 6 year old? It's not going to crush a kid's dreams or self worth. This sort of things drives me crazy.[/quote] What’s wrong with waiting? [b]They will know how to spell my elementary and middle school and then grammar and sentence structure will be taught over and over again[/b]. There are so many more important things to learn at this age. Patience. [/quote] None of this is accurate. Students today learn none of this.[/quote] There’s no way they can skip the rules of grammar. Really?[/quote] I think learning to write in actual words rather than “texting” is already a step up for many kids.[/quote] True I hope they didn’t give up with proper grammar. [/quote] Schools are not teaching grammar, let alone "proper grammar." Some elementary schools are teaching nouns, verbs, and adjectives and that's about it. I have family in all kinds of ed roles now- elementary homeroom, elementary specials, middle school science, middle school math, middle school admin, undergrad, hs summer school - every one of them complain that the kids coming up now no longer know how to write or spell.[/quote] For example when students start writing they don’t automatically know the difference between too or to. Or their, they’re or there. Structuring sentences, when to start a new paragraph. The little jingles like “I before E except after C”. They don’t do this anymore? My sixth grader only talks about science and social studies her favorites. [/quote]
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