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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School is not about learning it's about beating the next guy. Parents have turned schooling into a competitive sport.

If they "add" stuff to the curriculum, their kids are "better", "smarter", "will get ahead".

It's the fallacy that working hard will get you ahead ... so when somebody is not doing well they can just look down on them and say.. well you didn't work hard enough. When their kids fail they can say, "I did everything right" so it's somebody else's fault.

We are taking this "lack of teaching" and sport time to be more in tune with music, nature, hiking, growing, watching series together, just chiling... all the things missing from school life normally. [/quote]

Your comments really missed the mark.  Elementary educators have dramatically changed classroom instruction. Where prior generations studied grammar, spelling, geography, social studies, science and so on, schools now teach skills and strategies.  They rely on videos, instead of teacher instruction,  to teach these skills and strategies.

Many parents are concerned, as they should be.  Many of us still think spelling and grammar and geography are useful.

So, no.  Elementary school is not a competitive sport.  We are not concerned about our kids being “better” than the next student. We just wants our kids to be educated.  It’s a seemingly simple ask. 
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