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Funny - Kevin and I were having a surreal conversation of that sort in the car on the way to school today. It started off when she told me about the experiments they were doing on light and colour at school. As usual, my daughter managed to generate the sort of not-quite-plain-facts questions that teachers seem to find so uncomfortable, and she'd been told to look it up on the Internet. Asking mother and using her precious Internet time to play Pokemon seemed more to Kevin's taste. But at least she was willing to talk to me, which she hasn't been for some time.
(sorry Benz and BP but we're not talking wheatstone bridges here)
1) The teacher doesn't know the answer
2) Some kids are great at researching for themselves and it's all good experience if they're up to it
3) (and this is probably the most common one for me) I know the answer but going through it in class will fry the brains (and confuse) the less intelligent members of the class, who had previously grasped the concept. Many of the syllabuses/exams don't give credit for the extra intelligence. However, I try to speak to said student on their own, rather than leave it to them though.
The eldest usually likes being able to look for stuff on the net when she can motivate herself to stop the games!!
I found physics quite difficult to make sense of, apart from the stuff that could be explained my equations or involved things I could SEE happening. The rest I just had to learn to parrot off as if I believed it for exam purposes. In class, I spent a lot of time saying "why?" and "how do we KNOW that this is the best hypothesis?" and other such irritating things.
I personally think that that's very sad, and one of the reasons that teaching is peeing me off right now.
Can I ask a favour and pick your brains offline? If so, I will mail you.
We parents should bite back and start protesting at the inhumanity of it all!!
Pingu, I agree! And protest we do, and the government replies by selectively quoting numbers at us. I've got Angelmouse doing KS1 SATS this year, and in February her teacher gave her an old Level 4 paper to try in class with a view, presumably, to being able to use the poor little mite's ability in English to raise the school's KS1 attainment levels for league-table purposes. Angelmouse was unfazed, fortunately - "the teacher gave me a Year 6 paper and the questions were just weird, like 'what is the purpose of the first paragraph'" she said later. I know Kevin is keeping half an eye on the situation and will be horrible if Angelmouse's results are "better" than hers were at the same stage, which they may just be. I could well do without that.
We realised she meant Algebra:)
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