James K
NO, I'm always like this
- Location
- Taylorsville, Ut
...............I am a little aggrevated.
My 5th grader has 2 six page reports due Dec, 22.
One is a auto biography, about his birthday's, which he has had 11 of including the one today.
It has to have a cover page, a table of contents in the form of a time line, plus the six pages about his birthdays. All typed in no bigger than a 14 font, top and bottom margin of 6 spaces and 1" margins on the sides.
The other is on the orginal 13 colonies, which he has already had to build a house for that reprsents where a shipwright would live. It has to be done in powerpoint, which he can only use when he is at school. For which they only see about 15-20 minutes of computer time a day, because they have 8 computers and 30+ kids. Oh yeah and he has to have a costume, that represents a shipwright, to play out some skit about the colonies on top of all the other crap.
This is in addition to all the normal class work they are expected to get done on a daily basis.
This is driving me and my wife insane. How in the hell do you expect a 5th grader to do all this and still have a life?
At this point my wife and I feel we are back in school.
I just think this is a bit of a stretch and quite a bit of work for a 5th grader.
not to mention who gives a crap about what happen with the colonies. Focus more on teaching them how to do the report then what its about.
Oh yeah by the way my daughter had this same teacher when she was in the 3rd grade (7years ago) and all this woman want to focus on is history. My daughter still to this day dislikes this woman, for which we don't let her talk about the teacher in front of my son as to not discourage him.
and yes, I really dislike this woman.
rant off:
My 5th grader has 2 six page reports due Dec, 22.
One is a auto biography, about his birthday's, which he has had 11 of including the one today.
It has to have a cover page, a table of contents in the form of a time line, plus the six pages about his birthdays. All typed in no bigger than a 14 font, top and bottom margin of 6 spaces and 1" margins on the sides.
The other is on the orginal 13 colonies, which he has already had to build a house for that reprsents where a shipwright would live. It has to be done in powerpoint, which he can only use when he is at school. For which they only see about 15-20 minutes of computer time a day, because they have 8 computers and 30+ kids. Oh yeah and he has to have a costume, that represents a shipwright, to play out some skit about the colonies on top of all the other crap.
This is in addition to all the normal class work they are expected to get done on a daily basis.
This is driving me and my wife insane. How in the hell do you expect a 5th grader to do all this and still have a life?
At this point my wife and I feel we are back in school.
I just think this is a bit of a stretch and quite a bit of work for a 5th grader.
not to mention who gives a crap about what happen with the colonies. Focus more on teaching them how to do the report then what its about.
Oh yeah by the way my daughter had this same teacher when she was in the 3rd grade (7years ago) and all this woman want to focus on is history. My daughter still to this day dislikes this woman, for which we don't let her talk about the teacher in front of my son as to not discourage him.
and yes, I really dislike this woman.
rant off:
