My kids did in 3rd grade at a Catholic school. They had a year long project that spanned different subjects (social studies, writing, math, art, science) with respect to their chosen state and then learned the 50 states/capitals by region.

My HS kid did not learn any of that in Es in the 2013-2019.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in Mcps. Kids learned that and cursive writing in mommy homeschool during Covid.

What grades? It’s hard to believe there are schools out there not teaching basic geography in early elementary school grades starting with their own country.

There's no need to learn facts when you can just look them up on the internet, no need to learn the fundamentals of math when you have a calculator, no need to learn to write when you have AI to do it for you. Just burble about your feelings the whole way through primary and secondary school, and when you hit the university level, you can get yourself a doctorate with an autoethnography.

(I supplemented for years, then threw in the towel and sent the kids to a private religious school.)

Anonymous wrote:Not in Mcps. Kids learned that and cursive writing in mommy homeschool during Covid.

What grades? It’s hard to believe there are schools out there not teaching basic geography in early elementary school grades starting with their own country.

Not in Mcps. Kids learned that and cursive writing in mommy homeschool during Covid.

5th grade in catholic school.

3rd grade, private in the DMV. They each did a state report also.

My kids learned them all. The oldest is college the youngest is elementary school.

In second grade they gave them a blank map of the states with numbers on them. No key word list. They had to list the states along with capital cities. She got them all right. Something I would never be able to do. To me the Midwest is a big blur.

Right now she’s learning the names of countries and their capitals around the world. They are also reading about the valuable resources each country has and comparing the countries with their own experiences in the US. African countries and South East Asia so far. I’m sure all schools do this.

Public school.

4th in private.

Wasn't touched in the local public, when I had a kid there.

They’re learning it in 4th at our Catholic.

Yes- 4th grade - Catholic school.

I learned them all in 4th grade in Catholic school. My kids I'm pretty sure don't even know the difference between a state and a country in some circumstances.

Public

Midwest

Usually 4th grade.

No, not taught in DCPS. I had my kids play Stack the States at home and used placemats and played alphabet/map games on our own.

Other things not taught in DCPS: Grammar, spelling.

I think all they teach now are that some states are blue & the rest are filled with greedy, paternalistic, drag-show-adverse, capitalistic, pre-born-lovin’ papists & holy rollers who have the gall to think “King Lear” is better than “Susie has Two Moms.”