Yeah...My Daughter (who has a college degree in English) “teaches” at an advanced pre-school (glorified kindergarten). But she is just getting started and will move up the ladder, grade-wise. One day I was at an old antique shop in the Mtns of North Georgia and noticed they had some old “readers”. I wanted a 1st grade one but all they had was a second grade one so I bought it for her (it was really old).
I couldn’t help thumbing through it and I was stunned. They were learning how to diagram sentences in the second grade...I mean seriously. I thought back to my second grade class in a rural school and I guess we were doing that too (in 1964) but I didn’t think they would be that advanced in the late 1800s.
...and as far as penmanship...don’t get me started.
My worst grades were in penmanship. I can’t even read my printing.