That's odd because I was just thinking about that last week or so. I was surprised that cursive writing hasn't been introduced for my child. I asked my wife's brother if his kids have learned cursive writing yet and the oldest, who is in high school, still haven't learned how to read or write in cursive.
The other odd thing is, there's no spelling exercises at all. My child's teacher said my child is the only one in the class who knows how to spell words properly when asked to, because I believe spelling is vital so I teach my child to spell properly.
I remember when I was my child's age, we had to read literature that's age appropriate, practice writing within the lines, spelling and such. Now it's completely different and for English, my child have to write a report on the changes in the moon, how to operate a business and some other stuff that's not even related to English!
In case if anyone's wondering what my child is going through, yes it's Common Core and I do intend to take my child out of the whole education system here in this state, and switch my child back to traditional studies so probably through home schooling. The good thing is I've already showed my child how to do math the traditional way and the Common Core way and my child said they prefer the traditional way because it's easier!
That's odd because I was just thinking about that last week or so. I was surprised that cursive writing hasn't been introduced for my child. I asked my wife's brother if his kids have learned cursive writing yet and the oldest, who is in high school, still haven't learned how to read or write in cursive.
The other odd thing is, there's no spelling exercises at all. My child's teacher said my child is the only one in the class who knows how to spell words properly when asked to, because I believe spelling is vital so I teach my child to spell properly.
I remember when I was my child's age, we had to read literature that's age appropriate, practice writing within the lines, spelling and such. Now it's completely different and for English, my child have to write a report on the changes in the moon, how to operate a business and some other stuff that's not even related to English!
In case if anyone's wondering what my child is going through, yes it's Common Core and I do intend to take my child out of the whole education system here in this state, and switch my child back to traditional studies so probably through home schooling. The good thing is I've already showed my child how to do math the traditional way and the Common Core way and my child said they prefer the traditional way because it's easier!