Spellings.

[chickengrandma-2008]

What sort of words would you think an eight year old would have to learn to spell for their homework.  My son has just seen in his daughter's school book the words to learn today.  There is Tamarisk, not difficult but not a common word, defeatist, not bad at all, eucalyptus, a little more tricky and excruciatingly!!  For an eight year old??  My other eight year old granddaughter has trouble spelling a word such as mother.  

[duck_a_lorange]

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@cee-dee wrote:

Teaching today is lunacy.

They try to teach far too many things far too soon.

On news websites you see far too many basic spelling mistakes and on forums such as this, the appalling spelling, shocking grammar and lack of punctuation are all indicative of poor teaching.

Essential early learning should go back to the old reading, writing and arithmatic and forget about trendy fads in teaching.

I'd like to make some of the teachers climb a ladder with many of the rungs missing because that's what they're trying to make the kids do with basic learning.

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Couldn't agree more. And have you seen the way they are teaching arithmetic?  You know, just addition and subtraction? Those poor children!