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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You forgot the age appropriate part. Business proposal at 5th grade is not going to be more sophisticated than a lemon stand. I call that waste of time. [/quote]

Neither is a fifth-grade research paper. Or a fifth-grade creative writing piece, or opinion piece. Fifth grade math is very unsophisticated as well. And history and science at the fifth-grade level, good grief. All, all a waste of time.[/quote]

This is absurd. I happen to think all the things you listed here are valuable exercises for a 5th grader. All would be excellent foundations for a business proposal later should the kids decide to go into business when they grow up. [/quote]

Our private does research papers in elementary school, especially in weekly library class.  Throughout 4th and 5th grade my child had to pick a state (he picked Montana), a country (he picked Iceland, then another time Madagascar), an animal (don't remember....), type of pollution ("space pollution"), etc.  Then put 5 pages together in an order that made sense, solid grammar and correct spelling. Didn't seem like a waste of time to me. 
They also have weekly creative writing on Fridays in 3rd grade. They have 45 minutes to write - they are given a sheet with a starter sentence, a cartoon and a list of 10 words to use in the short story.  I intend to save these forever! Some are really funny, like the robot that worked and then died the day after the warranty expired (wonder what appliance I was complaining about at home!). [/quote]

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