Post by @anewfox@lemmy.zip

2026-11-03 19:07 UTC

i lived in california from ages 4-8 and we did phonics basically every grade level. i moved to florida about 3/4 through 3rd grade and that was when i learned about educational standards at the ripe old age of 8 when everyone in my new third grade class read at a first grade level and even my teacher didn’t seem to know what she was doing. i have a formative memory from my first day. i asked the kid next to me when recess is, and his response was, “what’s recess?”

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@Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-05 12:38

Meanwhile during my childhood I moved many many times and I remember arriving at a school in upstate New York for 7th grade, getting out of our life skills class which is like Home Ec for head injuries, going to lunch and then after lunch going out for recess. The life skills class focused on important things like don’t talk to strangers which I thought was childish enough and then we went out for recess. We were in Middle School, and we had recess. The kids I met there were the most behind of any kids at any school I ever went to. I was constantly accused of having my parents help me with my homework and projects. It seemed impossible to explain to them how little time my mother had to pay attention to me at all since she worked 2 jobs.

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