Is our children learning?
Laura and I are at the hockey game, and during a TV timeout a couple minutes ago they do a little ‘Iceburgh Goes To School’ segment where the team mascot goes to a local elementary school with a cameraman in tow and asks the various adorable moppets questions.
Okay, fine, cute enough.
So the first question is “Where do penguins live?”
Sure, that makes sense, the team mascot’s a huge freakish cartoon penguin.
But then EVERY SINGLE KID says “up north where it’s cold!” or “the north pole!”
Not one knows the answer.
So I ask you: is our children learning?
October 7th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
They should have at least done a little bit of checking that the kids had actually covered Arctic wildlife. Or even South American wildlife.
Dylan knows the names of more species of whales than I do, but I doubt he knows where penguins live. The various science “chapters” that schools cover does seem to be very random though. At least in California kindergarten. They did pumpkins (and how they grow, which is probably part of a larger plant thing, but it didn’t seem like it), the ocean, outer space, shadows, animals and insects in Dylan’s class last year. I don’t know what they are doing in the Tennessee first grade. I’m a little worried about finding out, actually. But he does read to me now, so I know he’s progressing, despite the schools.