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[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]

This is what most of the world does from ages 4-12 plus heavy STEM. 
Then they have serious testing junctures for tracking to a particular middle school, high school, A levels and the career track/college/trade/offload/military.

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