Results: Changes to kids education
Published on 04/11/2024
This is for my fellow Canadian mostly. I am not sure what the education system is like in the U.S. Sometimes it seems like schools are experimenting with our kids education. I know for my kids they changed a few things over the years so the type of education my oldest vs my youngest received is a little different. Which of these changes have your kids experienced?
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The New Math!? I can't really explain it, because I never did understand it. Number bonding. Decomposing, box multiplication. Were your kids taught this? what do you make of it?
don't have kids
26%
548 votes
my kids are too old to have been affected
31%
644 votes
my kids were taught it, i don't like it. don't fix what ain't broke.
12%
246 votes
my kids were taught it, i trust the people who decide these things that this is what is best for kids now.
6%
120 votes
Not Applicable
28%
586 votes
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Cursive. My son is 17, graduating from High School this year. He was never taught cursive. Signs his name by printing. Can't read it. I don't know when they stopped teaching it, but now my 2 youngest are being taught it again. They started it again a couple years ago when they were in middle school. I was taught cursive in like grade 3! What do you think? Is cursive needed in the computer age? don't have kids
21%
435 votes
I fine with them not teaching it. its an archaic practice created for the limitations of quill pens anyway
6%
131 votes
I think it should be taught. glad they are bringing it back
47%
984 votes
I learned cursive in school
41%
859 votes
i didn't learn cursive in school
2%
46 votes
Not Applicable
16%
345 votes
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How grading is done. It used to be more clear. You had your A's, B's, C's, D's and F's or percentages that corresponded to those grades. Maybe in the younger years they had what they do now with U for usually, C for consistently, etc. Now they have that along with a number system from 1 to 4. What do you think of this grading system? don't have kids
27%
563 votes
I think its fine. They are getting the same education in the end
13%
264 votes
I don't like it. Its hard to make sense of it sometimes
20%
410 votes
I don't understand the need for the change. it seems like change for change sake to me.
27%
571 votes
Not Applicable
24%
498 votes
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Exams. For the longest time during my oldest sons education, they eliminated end of the year exams. Now they just base it off the tests and assignments over the year alone. Now they are bring them back in his final year. What do you think? don't have kids
25%
524 votes
I think they shouldn't have them. They are mostly just memorization anyway and are not a good indicator of what they have learned, especially when you consider that some kids are just not good test takers
16%
345 votes
They should have them. It helps create a standard for all schools so that it can better guarantee that all kids are getting an equal education.
34%
724 votes
Not Applicable
24%
507 votes
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