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Reply to "Explain as a parent why I should care about SOLs?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What grade are they studying Mali? Perhaps it came up in class discussion talking about current events. [/quote] In second grade they teach about Mali.[/quote] Mali comes up in any student of ancient civilizations. It's on the 9th grade World History I SOL, too. Just remember gold and salt and you'll be good. [/quote] This is the problem. [b]The SOLs are based on "all you need to know is" and unfortunately that strategy is what is dominating education in the US right now. [/b]We're jumping ship and headed to private next year. [/quote] here's some others you want to master: 1. economics: supply and demand 2. business: buy low and sell it for more 3. Spanish: Como esta usted? Muy bien gracias. pretty much all you need to know :wink:[/quote] And was it really any different when we were kids? Kids take all sorts of tests to measure what they know - spelling tests, science quizzes, history tests, etc etc. To be successful on those tests, they have to retain/regurgitate material. I had to memorize explorers, learn spelling words, learn multiplication facts, and all sorts of other facts for my classes in elementary school. As for things like supply and demand, I never had to learn that until I took economics in college. I was amazed to see that our son had to know such a concept in 3rd grade (and I grew up attending a school system on par with the best around here). I read the whining on here and just laugh -- what do people want their kids learning that they're somehow not getting? And, really, does it matter? I attended top schools all the way through law school and work with super intelligent people who went to ordinary elementary and high schoools, and attended average universities/law schools. I also have to laugh because you find plenty of complaints on this forum that kids shouldn't be wasting time learning, say, a foreign language in elementary school because it detracts from more language arts or math -- in other words, more basics of the type tested on SOLs.[/quote]
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