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@ahn.eth
attended back to school for the 5-year-old - met teacher, learned about curriculum, saw other parents teacher explained how major academic goal is to get basics for reading & writing in place before stating a big focus will be cursive writing to which i unwisely chuckled never in my adult life have i gotten such a glare from another adult 😭
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Cursive? Is this a private school? 👀 Or is this just how French schools operate?
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@arjantupan
It is very French. This is the way they learn how to write in France. It's interesting.
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It's not just interesting, it's beautiful ! Words in a fancy dress.
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@ahn.eth
"words in a fancy dress" very demure, very french 🤌
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@patxol.eth
From a French perspective, that drama around cursive is very funny. Learning cursive is just a basic thing, that just requires a good eye-hand coordination. It's very good for motor skills and it pays respect to words :-) My French-British 5 yo is massively excited about learning how to write "attaché". I have no doubt she will master that as well as dactylography.
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@arjantupan
As replied to Justin as well, I really like the attaché, it just surprised me that it was considered so important. As if it is the only way you can learn anything. At least, that's how it was more or less presented in the school of our kids. My kids both write in the French way, even though they only had 2 half days of french the past years. I really like the z they make, and the 7. But I also believe that if they had learned to write with loose letters, they would have done just as well in school. I also believe pengrip can differ from person to person, and forcing a certain grip on kids can be counterproductive. The first French teacher of my daughter did not agree with me. That was fun.
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@ahn.eth
yes, she spent a couple minutes talking about "proper pen grip" as well 😂
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@arjantupan
Did she show that video? With mice in a car, or something? We were shown that. It was just so surprising.
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@ahn.eth
no, don't think i've ever had a video shown during a back-to-school meeting! and to be clear, i believe this teacher is nice and i don't mean to poo-poo her/the french curriculum. after all, i have an older daughter who's already went through this as well and she very much enjoyed/continues to enjoy school. it's just my observation/opinion expressed openly and the teacher who gamely responded 😂
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Hehehe. Did she give you detention. Yes, my kids, even at their international school, greatly enjoyed their French classes. They did basically the full program. We were sent a link to the video, but it was 3 years ago and I don't recall the link. I think the video was a clear explanation of the proper pen-grip, one that was also made to make it easy for the kids to understand. Anyway, I agree. It's just all not what we were used to. Probably if you, or a french person, will have a similar meeting at a Dutch school, there would be something weird that would make youu chuckle as well. All part of our wonderful lives filled with cultural quirks.
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