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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people don’t know what a classical education emphasizes in elementary school here are some examples:

Phonics  is taught systematically using a curriculum. Students will read decodable texts instead of guessing and memorizing whole words while looking at picture cues. Workbooks to practice phonics skills are used.

Spelling is taught and there are weekly spelling tests. Instead of having students in kindergarten and first grade write sentences, paragraphs or pages of journal writing where they write using invented spelling about their favorite animal or what they did during the weekend, in classical education students first learn to copy correctly using correct spelling and punctuation. They memorize and recite poems.

In math students memorize math facts. [/quote]

All you people caviling about now no one understands the meaning of a Classical education care to comment whether this is actually accurate? [/quote]

People are probably referring to Traditional foundational education for early childhood development with classic units and literature. And then differentiation, electives and theories for upper school once there is a strong base of knowledge and kids learned enough to pick some passions. Then for college they narrow down again to majors.

Can you imagine having some new age kumbaya curriculum that covered only a fraction of the above, and with totally new experimental methods and then moving out of state and really suffering a lack of skills?? [/quote]

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