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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people don’t know what a classical education emphasizes in elementary school here are some examples:

Phonics  is taught systematically using a curriculum. Students will read decodable texts instead of guessing and memorizing whole words while looking at picture cues. Workbooks to practice phonics skills are used.

Spelling is taught and there are weekly spelling tests. Instead of having students in kindergarten and first grade write sentences, paragraphs or pages of journal writing where they write using invented spelling about their favorite animal or what they did during the weekend, in classical education students first learn to copy correctly using correct spelling and punctuation. They memorize and recite poems.

In math students memorize math facts. [/quote]

I don't think this is specifically a classical education which is based on the trivium. This is a standard education from 25 years ago.
My son brought home so many pieces of writing last year which consisted of "i like to eat piza my favrit piza is peperony it is soooooooo gud" (with enough O's in it to to fill up the sheet of paper). Now he has to copy a paragraph using correct capitalization, spelling and punctuation. He doesn't care about creative writing; he likes to know that what he has written is correct. Teachers have it in their heads that every 6 year old is a budding stream-of-consciousness author who can't be constrained by the rules of grammar. Wrong! The time for creative writing is AFTER they've learned the rules of the language.[/quote]

Agree. Such a joke.

We were on a tour and I believe they said it was 4th grade classroom but the “writing” up on the walls looked like 1st grade at most. Poor penmanship, poor spelling- same word three different ways even, lack of punctuation, and poor content- repetitive, no descriptions, restated the question as an answer.

And zero teacher feedback. Maybe that was the issue, no one looking things over = Who cares

My spouse actually took phone photos of it to remember. Maybe we’ll apply at a later year there if things elsewhere don’t work out. [/quote]

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