In which I say "wha?"

[spotzle]

It's the fifth day of school and already O is struggling. The good news is she'll have an IEP (Individual Education Plan) done by the end of the month

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[spotzle]

Yes, I like the no paper thing, too.

[adventurat]

How weird. I hope it turns out to be a good thing for O, that it plays to her strengths rather than emphasizes her weaknesses.

[spotzle]

I would hope so. But O is probably the weakest link in nearly any academic setting. Unless it's all poster making in which case she'll throw the curve.

Honestly, I'm even more appalled than when I read through MOK's revisionist history text book.

But I shall wait and see. I do like that there's two teachers, though.

[spotzle]

It was full of bullet points and instafacts with wide blank margins and very large text. And when you go to the actual history part it seemed very skewed. Apparently all white males are assholes.

[few]

If it helps, my Modern European History teacher was adamant that we not worry about memorising dates etc. (With very few exceptions--actually, the only one I can think of is Martin Luther's 95 Theses, October 31, 1517. Clearly having few dates to worry about meant at least one of the exceptions stuck--though I did have to look up just how many theses there were; I can remember the date they were posted, but always forget the quantity. :P ) She was also fond of telling us to "read it like a novel" when assigning large chunks of homework reading.

Best teacher I ever had, actually. I took a voluntary year of Comparative Politics just to have her again.

[spotzle]

Great teachers are always a treasure.

(the only date I can remember from World History is 1066)

[the_marchioness]

That's certainly an interesting approach, but have no fear. It's still 10x better than my own 7th grade American history experience. Since I was in the "advanced" group of students, we only had one semester of history (in which time we were supposed to cover an entire year's worth of material) so that we could take a 'super special' class only for the advanced group. (It was actually called CREATE class but I no longer remember what each letter stood for; it was something you had to test or grade into.) While in theory this worked, in practice it did not. Mainly because my history teacher was more interested in "teaching" current events -- we never made it past page 17 of the textbook

[spotzle]

It's unorthodox to be sure... their final project is a group effort. They have to make a poster. As a group. *face palm*

I'll know more about the class in a few weeks.

[jennlynnfs]

Let us know what you find out about the assignment. I'm curious to hear more of the details of it.

We're moving toward a paperless way, but we're not nearly as close as O's school. It'd be really nice.