What do you think about your school curriculum?

[*Jessica*]

Strange? DS1 is 9 in Grade 4 and just did the same task. DS2 is 7 in Grade 2 and there is no way he would be ready for a task like that!

[Snacks]

Maybe your DS would surprise you, Jessica. I thought DD was struggling but it turns out not. I think my idea of what they were doing was a bit off.

[AnyDream]

I think this is one really interesting part of the curriculum. I remember being in school and pretty much every time we had to write something it was narrative, ie, what I did on the weekend, a story about something with a beginning, middle and end. But when you think about real life - how often do you need to write a narrative? You don't. You need to be able to write emails, and messages to get things done, business cases to get money, letters and job applications to persuade people they want to hire you. The earlier we start teaching kids that they have a choice in how they express that type of communication, hopefully the more skilled they will be at applying that later in life.