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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in 5th grade.  I wouldn't call anything that he has encountered so far "intense," but the Virginia studies bs in 4th grade was over the top.  An entire year of history dedicated to Virginia, with a weekly packet to complete and daily study requirements, all leading up to a much-hyped SOL finale.  [/quote]

I grew up in a state in the midwest and we had this too.  Nothing like an entire year on the history of your state.  And this was back in the early 80s so it's not exactly like there were lots of units about civilizations other than white Europeans who eventually explored and settled there.  At least Virginia has a much deeper history to study.[/quote]

What is the weekly packet and daily study about? Our school didn't have this.[/quote]

They got a mini newspaper every week covering va history (tailored to SOLs). A packet came home with it.  They had a week to go over each newspaper and answer the packet questions; there was a 5 minute study requirement per night.[/quote]

Do you know what the newspaper was called?[/quote]

Every fourth grade kid in Virginia gets it--it's not an APS thing. I wish the state invested that much in other curricula.... Also, it covers geography, geology--not just history[/quote]

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