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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education is run by progressive liberals who don't understand the consequences of their soft teaching.

We need to be focused on educating our kids with math and reading. And discipline, consequences. For all kids. We are too focused on feelings, making kids feel good.

As the saying goes, the worst preparation of adulthood is a stress free childhood. [/quote]

How can we get back to actually educating our children as a society? I don’t mean a return to rapping kids with rulers, just telling kids they are WRONG when they say 2+2 =5 or spell “said” as “sed.” Right now they are complimented on their thinking and creativity and asked how they got there and to please show everyone else how they did it. No! Don’t teach 20 kids the wrong way! Tell the 1 kid that he is wrong and here is the correct answer. [/quote]

Spelling has been secondary to critical thinking and putting ideas on paper for decades now.  This isn’t new and the students do get better at spelling every year.   I don’t see any differences in reading skills during my school years, my older child’s school years, my middle and my younger child.

Some schools apparently aren’t having the young kids write as often as they should or they don’t read books as often as they should.  The parents should be able to get behind that and insist that it change.  It doesn’t cost any more money so why wouldn’t the schools agree?   [/quote]

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