Question: May we have the syllabus, prospectus, reading lists, or items to be covered this semester?
Answer: No. These things change constantly, we don’t have a set syllabus.
Um. The alphabet has been pretty much the same since… well, since teachers taught, back in the 1700s or whenever words like curriculum didn’t make a kindergarten teacher’s eyes cross at the complexity.
Fine, very well, “educate” the kid. Randomly. Pluck something from the air, and proceed. But dammit, don’t you act in any sort of model that has a result that appears logical, as this would suggest that yes, you did have a syllabus or some sort of semester end-goals, very specific and precise ones, in fact, and thus were only hurting kids of parents who want to be in any way an integral part of their education.
Rhyming words. Sounds of letters. Left-to-right “reading” recognition. Numbers from 1-20. Synonyms. They must be able to say, spell, and write their full name. These tips given after an “assess and eval” one-on-one; uh… hey can we have the curriculum now? Nope. Isn’t one.
Oh, right. Stupid us.
Here’s a couple of phrases that rhyme: Grade school teacher and Overpaid drool feature.
Socialist class oath: No child left behind, no child sent ahead, our entire fucking generation, will be equally middling bred [free-thinker alternative: brain dead].
What a crock, and what a mule kick to the sack for parents who know if the secret syllabus sauce were leaked, it’d result in a kid who, in a weekend of real study, could finish a semester’s worth of academic learning. Children who can test out of their grade’s minimum end-semester requirements should be handed a government check pro rata for the unused facilities and resources they did not consume.
See if that gets the USA back into a reasonable percentile of learning. School is mandatory, but you can test out, and get a $10k/yr lump into your college tuition escrow and $10k/yr in cash to Mommy and Daddy if you’re able to test-out on the first day of each semester.
No damned wonder there aren’t curricula available.
