Re: Propper Englesh

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Rosemary wrote:

When I started at Reception in the early nineties, most of the kids
didn't know their primary colours.

We were taught things like that in school - certainly I had no idea
about that sort of thing before I started school. And why not?
Learning like that is the sort of thing you go to school for; you
should be learning other stuff outside school.

That strikes me as a bit weird. How is it possible to get to the age of
five and not know what red, blue and yellow are? I mean, I just can't
cope with the concept of talking to a 5 year old kid, and asking him
whether he wanted the blue t-shirt or the yellow t-shirt, and him not
knowing what I was talking about.

I mean, bloody hell! The task on my first day of school was "colour the
apple red", and most of the kids couldn't pick out a red crayon from a
box.

Had their parent(s) never once referred to the colour of something in
their presence?

I remember my first day there - the main task
for the day was to colour in a picture of an apple in red. I think
that was the moment I realised I wasn't going to enjoy school very
much.

I don't recall what I did on my first day at school, but I can recall
not being driven mad by tedium at school until I started high school.
Up until then, there had always been interesting stuff to keep me
occupied.

Really? I was as bored as hell right from infant school, at least when I
wasn't getting bullied.

Rosemary

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