I think you're both standing on the dock here while the point goes sailing past you -- it's not turning a vacation into a field trip it's not saying "ok kids we're going to study 1880s agrarian culture this year on vacatin yay!" is taking experience -- be it the arts, or history, or sciences or what have you and usuing them as a jumping off point to learn -- it doesnt' even have to be anything they're curretnly studying --it's using adventure and experiences -sometimes right next door, sometimes a world away -- to open up their eyes and senses to ways to learn that go beyond the classroom walls.
Oh, we are not worrying about school while we are on a trip. But we never stop thinking about learning. I want my kids to be intellectually curious, lifelong learners. School is a tool in that process, not the be all and end all in life.
Yes, I am because the typical child should be able to complete the homework assigned to them on a daily basis without help form the parents and if they can't complete their daily homework on their own for the most part, then there is a bigger issue, imo....which includes the things that you mention, those are part of the other bigger issues.
I don't know how the schools work in Sweden, but in the U.S. the schools will simply fail the child. Unless the child is on an IEP, the schools don't accept the responsibility of ensuring that each student ultimately learns the subjects. This is a huge failing of ours schools (IMO) that NCLB was supposed to remedy. Whether it has done so or not is up for debate (has been debated ad nauseum elsewhere). But for now, it still looks to me like the schools will continue to hand out D grades and let it stand at that rather than try to find a way to TEACH the failing student. Sometimes, if the parent can neither teach the subject themselves nor get a tutor, the child simply fails. Some parents go to the school themselves with failing grade in hand and try to get the child some extra help, some remediation, an IEP, something. Some parents don't. But sitting back and assuming that the school will succesfully teach your child without checking up on that only works if your child doesn't run into any real problems. If they do, hopefully they'll come to you before failure happens, but it isn't safe to assume that they will. And it isn't safe to assume that a teacher will observe a student's misunderstood homework and work on a way to reach and teach that student. Just as likely they'll simply write D on the homework and that will be the end of the personalized input from them.
One of the best things my parents ever taught me was to ask my own questions -- if I said to them "when does the library close?" my mother would say "here's the phone book call them and ask"
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i struggled in math.
Yes, I am because the typical child should be able to complete the homework assigned to them on a daily basis without help form the parents and if they can't complete their daily homework on their own for the most part, then there is a bigger issue, imo....which includes the things that you mention, those are part of the other bigger issues.
If my child (younger
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This is the main problem I have with the concept of parents being responsible for over-seeing their children's homework.
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One of the best things my parents ever taught me was to ask my own questions -- if I said to them "when does the library close?" my mother would say "here's the phone book call them and ask"
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