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'Too much, too soon': Children should not start school until age six or seven, say education experts

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jmyrlefuller:
I can't say I disagree with the guy. Certainly in this society we feel somewhat liberated by sending the kids off to school earlier and earlier-- and admittedly, I was in a Methodist preschool by the age of three-- but shoving a curriculum down the throats of children that age is a recipe for disaster. Yet that's what their idea of increasing standards is: we've gone from a twelve-year high school education that could get you most run of the mill jobs to a fourteen-year marathon that will get you nothing but flipping burgers if you are lucky. We keep increasing standards and yet the system keeps becoming less and less useful.

Of course, I would argue the bottleneck is at the middle school age, where the current public education system is a complete failure.

NavyCanDo:

--- Quote from: AbaraXas on September 13, 2013, 04:11:00 am ---Considering the state of public education in this country, one would be advised to do the exact opposite anything an 'education expert' says. Of course, in my day job I am considered one so that anyone reading this in a Catch 22.

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My son brought home this math exercise when he was in 4th Grade,  and was all excited about the teachers note saying he did a “good job”. I glance at it and only seeing 2 incorrect check marks I gave him a high-five and told him “great job!”   I picked it up later while relaxing with a cup of coffee, and my jaw dropped. The only answers the teacher marked wrong were the two he did not fill in with an answer. He got credit for the rest, weather the answer was right or wrong. I kept this recorded because I used it at a conference I had with his teacher and Principle.


Teaches hand written note on test: 
 “SO Close! Keep up the good work”

3X2 = 6
5X2 = 10
8X2 = 28
0X2 = 2
4X2 = 20
10X2 = 25
4X2 = 8
7X2 = 27
2X2 = 4
6X2 = 8
1X2 = 2
9X2 = 29
11X2 = 20
7X5 = 35
4X5 = 20
2X5 =10
9X5 = 45
6X5 = 30
10X5 = 50
3X5 = 15
0X5 = 5
5X5 =10
11X5 = Blank   (marked wrong)
8X5 = Blank     (marked wrong)

DCPatriot:
Sad and embarrassing at the same time.   **nononono*

NavyCanDo:
Oh and this year 6th grade they have started the kids on CPM1 Math (College Prep Math).  When few have yet to master long division, fractions, and geomatry, they are starting  them on Algebra. I looked at the math book last night for the first time, and the first words out of my mouth were ”Good God”.   I didn’t see a math text book that difficult until 10th grade.     

mountaineer:
That's insane, NCD. We didn't do algebra until 8th grade, as I recall, and I barely survived it.

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