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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grammar and parts of speech are pretty easy to supplement with Khan Academy and Bee Star, if you are so inclined.

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Yes, I will supplement, but that is not the point.  This is the most basic thing that the school should be able to do.[/quote]

The education industry follows whatever trend is fashionable, and the currently the trend is to not explicitly teach most of the basics. The idea is that is better for kids to pick things up naturally, through osmosis. From the school's perspective, this seems to work for many kids. Of course, behind the scenes, the kids for whom this is "working" are generally those whose parents are now either doing the explicit teaching at home or are driving them to one of the many tutoring centers that have opened up since the fad seized hold.[/quote]

This trend is pointless and contrary to how little kid brains work. Who comes up with this stuff? My kindergartener was being taught to guess at quote hard words like “cake” today. There’s an easy phonics rule for that - why guess? Meanwhile I’m sitting at home teaching phonics. Maddening.

Don’t even get me started on word study lists versus teaching spelling phonetically.[/quote]

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