(11-18-2019 03:45 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  You know what grinds my gears… I have elementary school aged children. I hate how the schools give the kids projects that are designed to be done by the parents. For example, on Friday my 2nd grader was given an assignment where he is to conduct a 2-page paper on a country of his choice, where he is to discuss customs, traditions, food and entertainment of said country along with other details. Or the time they wanted “him” to design a pumpkin to look like his favorite story book character. Its bad enough I got to help him learn common-core math, now I have to do all these projects as well?

And the saddest part of this is when your children graduate from college and arrive at their low paying corporate entry jobs, they'll spend 12 to 16 hours a month completing more worthless busy work in the form of Computer Based Education (CBE's) to prove every month that they actually know something about the job for which they were hired, instead of spending that time doing their jobs. And worse their efficiency reports will largely consist of whether or not those CBE's were completed on time instead of how much work they've gotten done and how happy the those who interact with them are because of their professionalism.

It's a sick counterproductive world and it's not getting better, nor is it getting any more reasonable. Just remember the old definition of Hell, it's the absence of reason.

But look on the bright side, at least you won't have to do their CBE's. But unfortunately the work you are doing now isn't for your child, but rather for the busy work assigned to the teacher's to get done so they can all it a parental interactive event, which of course isn't designed for your kids to learn anything, but for the teacher to prove your required involvement.