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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like there is a lot of emphasis on jargon and initials and no emphasis on what really matters....reading, writing, arithmetic and being able to behave respectfully in a classroom.[/quote]

Says someone who hasn’t been in school in 35 years and has no idea what education looks like now. Please don’t step into conversations you’re not capable of having. [/quote]

I’m a teacher. Just got my masters in education on top of my work experience. I agree with the above poster as do many of my peers. [/quote]

I'm a parent of a 4th grade kid in MCPS.  He needs a lot of help and while we find the right placement for him, I am homeschooling him.  But I often wondered when he was in school how the teacher was able to plan a lesson, differentiate, control the class, complete the IEP paperwork, and keep me informed of what was going on.  I know she did all of this during the school day.  At some point during her day, she graded papers.

The teacher had to give 150% all the time just to keep her head above water.  I work full time and her level of effort exhausts me just thinking about it.

In order to homeschool, I had to find a curriculum for him to follow.  Since I work, it had to be relatively independent.  I stumbled upon a classical education program.  Taking the religious aspect out of it, it still teaches the fundamental skills that kids just don't seem to get in the classroom today.  It includes handwriting.  We all know when write something, you retain it better.  It includes learning to write an essay.  Not the hamburger model, but a step by step approach to writing.  For my kid, this works---he needs to be told exactly what to do in what order.  Asking him to write 5 sentences and telling him that is a paragraph means nothing to him.

So while his SpEd teacher was writing IEPs and making sure that she checked all the boxes of what she had to do each day, my child really wasn't learning how to think, how to learn, how to ask questions.  [/quote]

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