| Ka-pi96 said: That just sounds weird to me, and incredibly boring! We had shared desks/tables throughout school in the UK. No separate desks at all. Different layouts depending on the class too, so sometimes you'd just be facing other students rather than the teacher (usually for stuff like art, although I also remember it happened in some English classes too, with tables based on ability). Copying what the teacher wrote/reciting stuff just didn't happen at all. If we had any maths work to do or something the teacher would explain it and help, but we'd work out the problems individually rather than just letting the teacher do it and copying. Although we were supposed to show "how" we worked something out, which always pissed me off. I mean, if I can work it out in my head why waste time writing all the stuff leading up to the answer when I could just write the answer straight away? |
Haha, that was exactly the debate we had today. Problem was, my kid was working it out the wrong way in his head, reversing numbers in some instances yet refusing to write down the steps. Of course to debug the method, he had to explain first what he was doing, which he couldn't.
I went to grade school in the early eighties, it's all different nowadays. Even in high school we only had a more group like seating arrangement in arts and crafts class, although physics and chemistry at least had shared desks (with gas connections etc) But most of the lessons involved copying what the teacher wrote down then do some work in class and the rest at home through homework.
The great thing about the Jenaplan school was, I never had any homework until high school (which was the classic model again). I'm surprised how much homework my kids are already getting, from grade 1 already. Back in the day you could also fail a year and have to do it over. Nowadays, at least here, you advance automatically... No clue how it's going to turn out now the schools are closed. Home schooling is not ideal. Some parents don't have the devices or the no how of how to get access to and use all the different programs. All the teacher can do is write an email asking how everyone is doing, hope everyone is fine although I haven't heard from a lot of you...
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