@WildBaboons said in The Work Thread:
What silverfox described is more or less what happens up here in the frozen too. I don't think any kids around here get actual text books until maybe 4th grade. I'm thinking more like 6th though.
Same here (Northeast). No real textbooks until 6th, and even then it was almost all on their ipads. Varies by district, I'm sure but it's hardly unheard of.
I was born in Canada, actually. I can readily recall carrying some hefty books back in 2nd grade.
I went to private school and my books would not all fit in the cubby hole built into the seat of the desk. I frequently carried a backpack with three or four books home every day.
It is not right for a kid to HAVE to carry a backpack that heavy at such a young age.
Just because it DID happen, doesn't mean it's okay.
Just because it DOES happen, doesn't mean it's okay.
Don't mind me; I'm old and ornery.
I'll just teach my kids all of the wicked shit at home.
Plus, I was a high school teacher.
Second grade is a little fuzzy, but third grade there were several text books. And workbooks. And then I liked to go to the library... And then the research stuff for GnT
@silverfox THE CHILDREN MUST SUFFER AS I HAVE SUFFERED
I honestly don't remember lugging around heavy books being a Thing until junior high, and even then I could mostly just stuff mine in my locker. My cubby hole was my friend! I was a privileged child of the...1990s Idaho and Arizona public schools. IDK. Simpler times maybe.
The logic behind all hazing. You cannot be a part of the community until you have endured what everyone else in the community endured to join the community.
I went to is a Steiner school. I remember no text books involved.
@Snackness said in The Work Thread:
THE CHILDREN MUST SUFFER AS I HAVE SUFFERED
More like: my children will suffer as I have suffered.
Skin color's a bitch.
Before this goes any further, I do not actually condone hazing, and I do not want my child or any other child to fall headfirst into a puddle or suffer in any other fashion.
@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:
@silverfox said in The Work Thread:
Nope. In a normal year they have their lunch box and maybe a single reading book.
Man, y'all live it easy down Souf.
Homework guidelines tend to be 10 minutes per grade level starting in 1st. So 2nd grade would be 20 min, which most teachers divide between individual reading practice and math practice (in a workbook or prepared worksheet or online on IXL or something).
So yeah, I can see a second grading not carrying many books.
I know I had to carry all my books when I was in 1st, 2nd, etc. But I'm pretty sure it was in part because I went to a small private school and there weren't any lockers and such.
My younger three siblings (who went to public school) mostly had backpacks full of papers in elementary. So it's very much not a recent thing.
That sounds reasonable for humans, but unreasonable for catbots.
I remember being confused when dating my first GF because she had only 5 courses a semester, but I went to a school with terms, and had taken 8 or 9 courses at a time for years.
My old school warned parents to expect between 3 to 4 hours of homework a night.
I'm just more surprised that there are schools out there that can afford to buy individual text books for elementary students
@WildBaboons said in The Work Thread:
I'm just more surprised that there are schools out there that can afford to buy individual text books for elementary students
Then remember that some of those textbooks are decades old and out of date.
@Auspice covered in grocery store paper bag book covers too so they last a few more years
Book covers at the middle level have gone out of vogue. In fact, our middle schoolers have fewer texts than my elementary kids because so many of theirs have moved digital.
@silverfox And all this makes me think - what would I have done, back then? My parents had 4 kids, we didn't have a computer until I was almost done with high school.
@WildBaboons said in The Work Thread:
What silverfox described is more or less what happens up here in the frozen too. I don't think any kids around here get actual text books until maybe 4th grade. I'm thinking more like 6th though.
Same here (Northeast). No real textbooks until 6th, and even then it was almost all on their ipads. Varies by district, I'm sure but it's hardly unheard of.
