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teaching your child after they come home from school

Mar 03, 2010 23:51

I am new to posting and this site. I found this site only after trying to find a site I could cut and paste a story I started writing over 10 years ago, and did not want to take a chance in ever losing it. I am glad to see a site with questioning parents! So here is mine.
Does it seem crazy to anyone else that when your child comes home from ( ... )

rikkicarey

I agree that spell should always be fixed/marked up by the teachers no matter what the subject is. I also agree with the philosophy that spell should only "count" on spelling tests, English essays and possibly as part of a "final presentation" score on larger reports (eg poor spelling could be the difference between an A and an A+) However, as someone that has struggled my entire life with poor spelling, I don't think it should be THE important part of every lesson. Same with cursive writing. I think content and thought process are much more important ( ... )

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rikkicarey

ps.... as you've likely noticed... I tend to leave letters out and miss the ending of words :(

AND I really should pay for my LJ account so I can fix these thing when I go back and re-read my own posts 20 minutes later :(
Sorry.

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kittyface

It doesn't always help though - it let you use "principle" instead of "principal". ;)

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rikkicarey

Ugh!@!
BUT if you could see what that post would have looked like 5yrs ago (Pre-LJ) You'd give me a hero cookie ;)

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a_mothers_story

Rikkicarey, I am so glad you replied because it does show me that it is possible to comprehend content even though you can not spell, you see with my daughter she has a difficult time with comprehension as well. I just can't imagine going through all of this again with my little one. I do have my oldest read to my 7 year old but when she doesn't know a word and my 7 year old has to tell her what it is she shuts down ( ... )

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