Klara’s teacher sent me a long missive which, due to its length, I mistook for her autobiography.
Turns out it’s a list of Very Important Assignments that Klara missed in the 5 days we were away in Florida.
People take things way too seriously.
Important Assignments
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Zero important assignments at that age.
Zero real consequences for just ignoring them.
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Right? This is all so very silly.
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Teachers are paid to take their assignments seriously –as a professor like you knows. Why are you calling her silly for it?
Dreidel
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She deprived my child of recess yesterday over this stupid homework. What’s more important for a 9yo, homework or outside physical activity?
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Oh, no! Will you speak to admin about that?
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I’m forcing myself not to. But my patience is wearing very thin. I’m not what you’d call a patient person.
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6031452/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29383535/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31720202/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20381783/
(there are dozens)
time spent outdoors is more important than any grade. There’s a good case that withholding it to punish or manipulate kids into complying with other assignments is inhumane.
In case you need ammo.
(making trouble, I know)
-ethyl
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Oh, I love these. Thank you!!! I know that I’m right on this because it’s obvious to anybody who is not braindead or a teacher but it’s great to have the actual science.
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im so glad my kids’ elementary school has a no-homework policy. The only homework they “assigned” is for parents to read to their kids.
I know you’ve mentioned in the past you were an early reader. Did you enjoy being read to? My first two kids learned to read at around 4/5 and they loved and still love being read to. My youngest taught himself at 2.5 and is totally uninterested in storytime. He would rather read to himself when he wants and just play with mom instead. Sometimes he tolerates taking turns but most of the time he doesn’t pay attention while I am reading.
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I was a super-early reader like your youngest and HATED being read to. It was so SLOW compared to reading on my own. Pretty much, I think it’s that I could see a block of text all at once, so word-by-word just was annoying; I didn’t “hear” what I was reading to myself, I just saw it and so if my mom was reading aloud, I’d be done with the whole page before she was done with a paragraph and I’d want the page turned.
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Same. It’s bloody torture for me when we read documents during meetings where everybody moves at a snail pace long after I’ve finished the document and pretty much memorized it.
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that’s so interesting! I can’t imagine reading the way you do. I suspected I was going too slow for him. Awhile back I thought it was the type of story, but he goes back to stories I’ve read at bedtime that he didn’t seem to like while he was being read to, and then happily read them to himself. He is very letter-focused and spends a *lot* of time playing with letters and writing them. He has better handwriting than my 5 year old at 3, and I suspect better than a lot of even older kids as well. Thanks for the info; everybody just says to read to your kids and my kid, the best reader I’ve been met, hates being read to.
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Not sure whether these are age-appropriate, so please check for your child, but maybe a joint reading of a choose your own adventure book or a family game like Mice and Mystics – with people swapping over the reading of the story backgrounds – might be a better way to support his growth?
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