WTF? This Is How They Teach Math to Kids Now
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Really interesting point, and good for you as a parent, teaching them to feel resistant to being expected to haul the load for those who refuse to haul it for themselves. The difference between charity, collaboration, and state-forced welfare wasn't taught to all kids!
"Team" projects were in my experience a labor saving method for the teachers. Guiding 30 individual minds is a challenge. Overseeing 5 teams where the smarter kids do the teacher's job--that's 6x easier.
It's also a way for the teachers to dilute the smartest kids and drag them down.
Its funny you say that because both my girls and I could read at four. My son seven. When my oldest daughter was in kindergarten she was in a "day care" ran by nuns. She spent 1/2 the day in kindergarten and the rest of the day in the day care. I found out the kindergarten teacher would gather the kids in a circle, put my daughter in charge, give her a book and leave the room. Needless to say, I was not happy! This kid was in charge of a classroom full of her peers at 5. Whats funny is that daughter became a teacher.
I'm glad your daughter had you as an advocate and reality-checker. Some moms would bask in that and brag about it, and not consider what an imposition on the child it is.
The idea that it's up to schools rather than families to teach basic skills is one of my pettest peeves. But that turning-over of children to the state is so deeply seeded and rooted at this point, among so many people....