pacrosby
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- Nov 6, 2009
I'm not asking this to be rude or to be condescending, but how hard can it really be for a parent to teach a child what they are missing in school? I mean, we've all been there. I've been to college. I feel like you're making it sound more challenging than it is or has to be. But, like I said, I haven't been in the public school system in over 20 years, so I'm sure things must have changed quite a bit. I have a difficult time grasping that the lesson plans are so complicated that it would make it impossible for me to teach the material or my child to learn the material by reading a book.
Is there an actual example? The only thing I could see being difficult for me is literature or labs. Literature because I genuinely suck at it and labs because they cannot be easily replicated.
I think what confuses me is the notion that a teacher doesn't know what they will be doing. I thought there was a curriculum; a certain amount of material that has to be covered in a semester. You pretty much have to stick to a plan to get it all in don't you? You can't just say, "oh oh, we ran out of time so we won't be learning that this semester." There are standards that have to be met.
Of course I do understand that things get more complicated in upper grades especially with certain classes. But generally speaking, I don't know.
I've said pretty much everything it all already so I'm not going to repeat myself. Just wanted to throw that out for comment.