I know a kid who just graduated from Harvard who couldn't find Poland on a map.

We are in deep trouble in this country in so many ways.

Teach geography at home, OP. Play stack the states and stack the countries on the iPad. Kids will get them quick. We bought flash cards as well. We like to play with them during dinner.

My kids learned them at home. They had a brief unit on them in 7th grade but that consisted of them filling out a US map with states/capitals (no prob for my kids). I don't recall either one of them ever being asked to memorize them for school though.

Anonymous wrote:Never learned them. In 7th grade we had to learn and complete and map of the entire world from memory, so while I didn't learn the names of the state capitals, I did learn every country on earth, their national capital and all major geographical features. I also can still draw almost all the continents and countries freehand.

Thanks for letting me brag!

That makes sense. State capitals are bullshit.

Never learned them. In 7th grade we had to learn and complete and map of the entire world from memory, so while I didn't learn the names of the state capitals, I did learn every country on earth, their national capital and all major geographical features. I also can still draw almost all the continents and countries freehand.

Thanks for letting me brag!

Anonymous wrote:teach your child the capitals on your own.

Yeah, make some flash cards.

teach your child the capitals on your own.

Didn't you know that kids don't need to know anything, anymore? It's not what they know, it's how they think.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry about it. It's not important.

Are you kidding? It's basic geographical knowledge. And why would they deem it important enough for the AAP kids to learn, but not Gen Ed?

No. I'm not kidding. AAP kids don't need it either. They will never, ever again be asked for that information. Geography teacher porn.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry about it. It's not important.

Are you kidding? It's basic geographical knowledge. And why would they deem it important enough for the AAP kids to learn, but not Gen Ed?

My kids learned them in second grade.

I think I learned them in fourth--do I remember all of them? NO

It's trivia.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry about it. It's not important.

+1.

I wouldn't worry about it. It's not important.

We are in private and they learn them in 4th

I have a 6th grader whose teacher says they won't be learning state capitals until 7th grade. This seems very late - I remember learning them (in FCPS) in the 4th grade.

In addition, the 6th grade AAP classes are learning this. Why on earth aren't all the classes being taught something so basic? Once again, I guess I'll be teaching my child information at home that they should be getting at school.