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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stumbled onto this post and OP, thank you for expressing why I find my kids' elementary school frustrating. Yes, we supplement because if we didn't our kids would spend their days ambling from station to station doing "independent" work. There's the mini-lesson for 15 minutes, but beyond that my kids both report that they work alone or with other kids to figure out things. There is a massive lack of direct instruction. Hence, we spend money on Russian Math and I spend over an hour each night essentially teaching my kids reading, including walking through the different steps in a DRA. It is frustrating when I think about how much time is wasted in school where the kids are not getting direct instruction.[/quote]

This is me, too. It is exhausting. The education my kids are getting in school is the pits.[/quote]

Maybe you should homeschool.  If nothing else, it might help with your martyr complex.  [/quote]

I don't think I have a martyr complex, maybe I do. I work a lot and my kids go to a center school that is considered top notch by most of the families who attend. I did not expect I would have to put so much time into teaching my kids the basics. People move to the area to go this school.  I have lived in another state, and used to teach, so I am pretty familiar with what a good education can look like. My impression at my school: the families are well educated and highly invested in their kids; the kids by and large are great and make excellent peers; the opportunities for advancement, especially in math, are plentiful. But the actual teaching -- especially in language arts -- is shockingly inconsistent. What goes on in the classroom is not impressive at all. [/quote]

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