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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3094535" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Agree.</p><p>A lot of parents in the US consider the school system as a babysitter. They don't actively engage what their kid is doing in school and try to help with the homework, etc.</p><p>That being said, the 3 R's I got in school evidently didn't count in my kids education. </p><p>I would help them with their math and english homework, with them telling me their teacher wouldn't accept "old school" sentence diagramming or old school long division for credit. </p><p>I called BS on that and met with the teachers later. They had a totally different way to do it, and would not give credit for the Old school method even though it was correct at the end. </p><p>I couldn't understand their reasoning. </p><p>I've always looked at every problem like a spoked wheel. Some of the spokes can be broken, but that's not a block to progress to the hub,</p><p> (the answer). You back up, go around the wheel, and find a spoke that is not broken and get to the answer. </p><p>They don't look at it like that. Its their way, or it doesn't count. That deprives kids of alternative sources of learning that end up with the same result.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3094535, member: 5412"] Agree. A lot of parents in the US consider the school system as a babysitter. They don't actively engage what their kid is doing in school and try to help with the homework, etc. That being said, the 3 R's I got in school evidently didn't count in my kids education. I would help them with their math and english homework, with them telling me their teacher wouldn't accept "old school" sentence diagramming or old school long division for credit. I called BS on that and met with the teachers later. They had a totally different way to do it, and would not give credit for the Old school method even though it was correct at the end. I couldn't understand their reasoning. I've always looked at every problem like a spoked wheel. Some of the spokes can be broken, but that's not a block to progress to the hub, (the answer). You back up, go around the wheel, and find a spoke that is not broken and get to the answer. They don't look at it like that. Its their way, or it doesn't count. That deprives kids of alternative sources of learning that end up with the same result. [/QUOTE]
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