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I also have a great example here: I am currently trying to register my son for daycare. The city has created an online portal for this due to contact restrictions, which was released for registrations today. I don’t need to explain further that daycare spots are hard to get and that you have to register or reserve under enormous time pressure... The portal always spits out an error message that is not understandable. That’s why I notified the daycare management and the city itself by email, since no one is reachable by phone. Just 5 minutes ago I received the information that all those responsible are on vacation and will get back to me on Tuesday. Try something like this in the private sector... For me as a taxpayer, this is simply incomprehensible, and exactly these kinds of situations create resentment against civil servants!

Of course, it’s stressful! Personal responsibility is not expected. How is it with us? Our bosses just let it run. We are allowed to decide ourselves whether to cover on-call duty or not. If we say no to give our colleagues an Easter holiday, we also have to live with the consequences if something happens (bookings fail). It’s just like that in daycare/school. You have time. By the way, school – the last two days we were bombarded with loads of information. Partly not even read anymore. Test voluntary after Easter. They also make it easy for themselves by forwarding the messages unfiltered. Some of the information was only for teachers. Germany, indeed. How my foreign fellow citizens understand this, I have no clue. Probably the entire school management wanted to quickly go on Easter vacation. Now everyone has two weeks off. The parents don’t :) Feels like nothing changes during that time. Going somewhere by plane doesn’t really work either.

I told my eldest that he doesn't have to do the "idiot task," meaning the math problem, again copying it from the book into the notebook. Every time this is required, I copy the book page for him. I don't believe in waste, and that includes working time for me.

The solution process is part of the calculation for me and should also be written down. But demanding the unnecessary rest in 4th grade is inefficient.

The younger one in 2nd grade should do it because unfortunately he has a homeroom teacher where there's only clapping, dancing, and singing in class/remote learning. I am really glad that next year from 3rd grade he will have a new teacher.

As I said, I got a warning from the teachers and threats of bad conduct grades. Now Filius gets one euro for every smiley.

By the way, he is a top student and doesn't understand why he should copy it.

By the way, he is a first grader and doesn't understand why he has to copy it.

I'll offer a change of perspective: Why should apprentices in all sorts of professions constantly repeat things they already do correctly? Because of a very old and true saying: Practice makes perfect Repetition develops routine, and routine means being able to perform an activity without mental effort, practically on autopilot. This is a cross-disciplinary skill, and it is part of the learning objectives in school. In the end, it would be smart if your son, like everyone else, has to write a certain number of x pages, but since he is already very good, he should be allowed to choose the template or even freely create his own story. But developing handwriting, practicing it, and turning it into a routine is essential, even in the digital age, for heaven’s sake.

I offer a change of perspective: Why should apprentices in all kinds of professions constantly repeat things they already do correctly?

Because of a very old and true saying: Practice makes perfect

Repetition develops routine, and routine means being able to perform an activity without mental effort, practically on autopilot. This is a cross-disciplinary skill, and it is part of the learning objectives of school.

In the end, it would be smart if your son, like everyone else, has to write a certain number of pages, but since he is already very good, he can choose the template or even write his own story freely.

But developing handwriting, practicing it, and turning it into a routine is, God knows, essential even in the digital age.

Yes, I understand it, but my son doesn’t! And I don’t have the ability to explain to him why! The teacher doesn’t either. Doesn’t offer a video call!! Dilemma

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You can't explain that to children! Neither parents nor teachers can.

Small children do not learn through explanations of a question they never asked. They learn such things by copying what their environment models and through simple mechanisms of carrot and stick.

Neither works at a distance through teachers: It doesn't. That only works through the parents or not at all.

Linking an achievement to filling the piggy bank IS a purposeful educational step of the carrot category.

Developing routines must be done, not understood. You can understand what it is good for only afterwards, not before. Because at that point, you couldn't yet.

The video call is more important to you than to the student, right? ;-)

I offer a change of perspective: Why should apprentices in all sorts of professions constantly repeat things they already do correctly?

Because of a very old and true saying: Practice makes perfect

Repetition develops routine and routine means being able to perform a task without mental effort, almost on autopilot. This is a cross-disciplinary skill, and it is part of the learning objectives of school.

In the end, it would be smart if your son, like all others, has to write a certain number of pages, but since he is already very good, he can choose the template or even write his own story freely.

But developing handwriting, practicing it and turning it into a routine is, God knows, essential even in the digital age.

And that’s exactly where I had really bad experiences in adult education. Both reading and writing skills among 18-25 year olds were a complete disaster. There, every single word in a complex matter was equally important. The speed of writing and the handwriting of the young adults were just as poor. Even in generously timed exams, hardly anyone finished. Structured working through tasks was also often lacking.

Apart from that, children also learn by copying that in real life unpleasant and subjectively unnecessary tasks must be diligently completed.