[LibertarianLiz]

I know what you mean. They would send stuff home, like, how many squares are in your house. So, my daughter would go around counting square things. This was a math assignment.

Then, it would be like an Alfred Hitchcock movie, as I would complain about the non-sensical curriculum that this book had and be told, very enthusiastically, that --- "oh, no, it spirals into learning", or some such nonsense.

My husband calls me a "practical learner" (I need to see a purpose to what I am being asked to learn). Well, I'm watching my daughter do nonsense, and then seeing her be unable to perform the most basic math. Sorry, this is a crappy math system.

Fortunately, because we were in a Catholic school system, the principal could get rid of this program. In the public schools, they will just keep this stuff, it doesn't matter that no kid is learning math.

[ConjunctionJunction]

I know exactly what you’re talking about. Some of the assignments we would be like “What’s the point?!” LOL!