Folks, it’s that time again: join me once more for the continuing adventure of Why The Florida Virtual Curriculum Sucks. Today’s bowlderised story is The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.pic.twitter.com/kiEMDDo2aq
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- and that reworking makes the story both inconsistent and devoid of meaning. But still, they expect second graders to "analyse" this nonsense as though it's got enough depth for that to be managed.
These questions are pointless: country mouse doesn’t “learn a lesson” - she misses the quiet and goes home. Nor does the story make the stated point about good things and hard things in everyone’s life making it bad to wish for different circumstances - there’s no catharsis.pic.twitter.com/L6NuASkChw
It's just. So maddening! You cannot teach kids to enjoy OR analyse stories when the stories are so cataclysmically bad that none of the stated analytic lessons can be inferred from them!! THAT IS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS.
For 8-year-olds too! Every kid in that class has encountered stories where the protagonist is threatened with danger.
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