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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm angry at APS for monopolizing and wasting so much of the children's time. Answered the 2024-2030 Strategic Plan survey. Sharing my answers to vent.

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[b]Question - What do you hope for the students?[/b]
Answer: I hope that students move through school knowing well how to read, write, speak, count, think, debate, value truth and knowledge. I hope that their curiosity would be encouraged, that they would ask many questions and learn how to find meaningful answers. I hope what they would be taught in a way that they value the lessons, and look forward to growing their skills and understanding.

[b]Question - What are the school's opportunities and challenges?[/b]
Opportunities - you have the attention of most of the county's children age 5-18 for 7 hrs a day/ 5 days a week. This is a tremendous opportunity. You're playing a huge role in their development.

The challenge is that the schools seem rotten to the core and are stunting the children. My daughter is in 4th grade. Apparently, learning spelling, sentence structure and punctuation aren't taught. Her writing had at least 1-2 errors per line, and the teacher didn't mark any mistakes. Put a "likes it" stamp on the page. Shame on you for wasting children's time and potential, making them sit through "CKLA" to learn that that spelling and grammar don't matter. My daughter and I looked at her writing, with all the errors that the teacher ignored. We looked at our poster of "Writing Systems of the World" and we agreed that writing and reading are forms of magic. And that the school failing to teach how to write is severing a person's connection to the past and present and robs them of their human heritage.

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Did it occur to you that maybe the teacher is fighting an uphill battle to teach spelling and punctuation, given all the prior years of schooling that have neglected it, and sometimes she just needs to put a stamp on a paper and move it out, so she could get on with the 399 other things she’s been told to get to that day? That CKLA is not the fault of the teacher?[/quote]

So at what point does someone put a stop to it, correct it, and teach the students how to write properly? You're excusing teachers from focusing on basic spelling and grammar because they're busy with other things?! [/quote]

At what point do parents realize it’s on them? I have no faith in our schools, so I teach my kids myself.[/quote]

How fortunate for your kids. Now, at what point does someone put a stop to it and teach the students in our schools how to write properly?[/quote]

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