03 Nov
Drug Use and Abuse
This is a caption of a quiz my 6 grader son has recently taken. What can I say? Seeing this quiz I feel cheated. Do we really pay the taxes so that the kids in grade 6 learn the difference between inhalants and stimulants? Quite candidly, by sound of it, I could surmise the meaning of these words. I am sure, in time, if the kids read and in general master the spoken language, they will be able to recognize the structure of the words – roots and suffices, etc., from which the possible meaning is easily derivable. But why waste time on that garbage in 6th grade, if at all? The practice reminds of a cartoon where a mother requested from her son to memorize the words that he should not be using.
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Perhaps that’s an attempt to let our kids learn what the real world has in store…
I think the test is intended to teach kids how to distinguish and avoid those evil stuff instead of being trapped by them…
January 13th, 2010 at 8:23 am