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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.
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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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