Mom Is Teaching

I know, we beat this horse about as often as we beat the homeschool versus public school horse but the fact of the matter is, teachers just keep giving me blog fodder that I simply cannot let waste away.

Today, I found yet another article on Stop Homework which references the dreaded subject, obviously, that’s why I go to this site, for affirmation that I’m not crazy and all that homework my kid is doing is crazy.  But, anyway, back to this particular article.

One of the first things that caught my attention was about handwriting.  My kindergartener has the absolute worst handwriting ever.  He still draws his letters…….so is it silly of me to figure, who cares, it’ll get better or he will simply write like his parents for the rest of his life.  Honestly, I just don’t think that 5 and 6 year olds really have the coordination to make their handwriting “good”.  And, according to this article, second grade was the magical time for a young girl. 

And, that brings me to those ever present and no-one-can-stand “projects”.  I kid you not, it will be awful at my house when these start to roll in, for more reasons than simply the disgust of it all.  I grew up in a rural school where most of the teachers knew that most of the parents either couldn’t afford to buy big crafty things or didn’t want to bother so we rarely ever had anything  major to do. 

But, just 15 miles over from that school is where my son goes and I suspect that, when I was in school, this particular school didn’t assign these projects either..and for the same reasons.  My reasons for hating them are very different.

One of them is just the pure ignorance of it all.  Have I mentioned that the kids in my son’s school have to a “cell” model with a cookie in the 5th grade and again with a cake in the 7th.  UH?  What does that accomplish? 

In our house those, the problem will be that my husband will be all gung-ho about them just because he loves to create and invent….I’m sure my kids will have the most awesome projects ever…….

but….

it won’t be because of their momma….or her belief in them….