I had straight A's in math with my straight D's in religion. LOL
It is not my fault that religion is really stupid.
psik
Now with grades like that I'd have to find out what the problem was causing the disparity. Were you not doing the work, or were your own views so opposite of the teacher's that you were being graded poorly based on your opinions more than the quality of your work?
Brother Edwards idea of teaching religion was copying pages and drawing pictures out of the catechisms we HAD TO BUY. We probably had to do 20 assignments every grading period. I did 3 in September and decided it was WAY TOO STOOPDI! I thought I was going to get and F. I concluded the school must have a policy of not flunking people at religion. So I did no more assignments for the rest of the year. Straight D's.
I am still pretty much an agnostic. Even the New Atheists are pretty boring. Have they said anything that wasn't said as well 50 years ago?
The idea that all subjects are equally important is ridiculous. And then they require 4 years of English literature and no accounting. Double-entry accounting would have been more useful than most of the more complex math I did get and usually got A's in. Why aren't parents demanding accounting for all kids instead of just insisting that kids get good grades in whatever junk they have to take?
Why aren't parents exchanging info and creating a reading list and ignoring a lot of what the schools say? I just don't get this TRUST IN AUTHORITY mentality.
psik
O.k., that's an idiotic assignment. You learn very little just copying out of a book. Hell I can copy out of a book and have
no clue what I just wrote. My daughter won't be in a religious school but, if she were, I'd still make her do the assignment because it IS the assignment. It would be more of a lesson in the fact that we can't just skip the parts of school/work/life that we don't like, than a lesson for the class however and I wouldn't complain about her doing the bare minimum to maintain at least a B in the class.
And I'd find something else for her to do/read/watch/write etc. on the subject for ME so that I knew she was learning something.
You're right that not all classes are created equal. I don't know about accounting, but a class in basic money management and the way credit works would be useful. So many kids come out of school with no real idea how to balance a checkbook or how to build/maintain credit and a lot of their parents don't know either! My own folks mangled their own and never taught me a thing about it so now I am digging myself out of a hole I was never told I could fall into! Actually, we won't need a class on this, I'll teach it to my daughter myself.
I don't know why so many parents just "go with the flow" when it comes to their childrens educations. I don't. My 3 year old is already learning basic addition skills (really basic, she uses her fingers to get the answers but she's
3! lol) and word recognition as well as realizing that it's letters that form words and starting phonics to sound words out. Learning is all a game when they're little and it's damned fun to watch them learn.
Mine WILL have a reading list and a lot of them will be read together before she's ever out of elementary school. Lots of classics (Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist etc) can be read to kids and be a bonding time for them and parents. I'll be as selective, as she gets older about what she reads as I am about what I allow her to watch...so many books out there for kids/young adults are just trash.
Though I suppose trash is better than video games all day.
