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Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months agoHope she does get a better education but here’s a mandatory fuck pearsons. They’re a big part of the reason why college education is so fricking expensive.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I know. Pearson sucks. But the online program she’s in now sucks more. It’s run by the county school system and the educational package they picked was the cheapest one possible. Her English lessons are ridiculous because they’re based entirely on public domain texts. She’s in 7th grade and they have had her read things like a letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison and an O. Henry story about a safecracker. The language is so archaic that she can’t parse it, and the context is so alien that she has no frame of reference. Basically, I have to go through these texts with her line by line and explain to her what each line means. And the English teacher they have assigned to this who you can meet with if you have problems basically told me yes, that’s what I will have to do.
At least the Pearson program will have texts appropriate for a kid her age.
This is from the Jefferson letter. I can barely understand it and I’ve taken college English classes.
That paragraph has two Latin phrases. I didn’t even know what gratis dictum meant. I had to look it up.