Holy crap! To top it off the kids are learning printing and cursive at the same time. Instead of focusing on printing and vocabulary building the stress is on making the perfect fucking curlieque on the capital letters and *bangs head on desk*.

At least I am not alone in my mental rantings. This morning I was approached by another father and two mothers asking if Kiddo was having any problems with the homework load and btw is this how they did it in the States.

Sarah mentioned that scientists don't use cursive. Very good point. Before I had a chance to tell that to Kiddo she came in to show me her 87th capital E (looked like some ornate knotwork) and comlpained that "nobody would be able to read my instructions for the vaccine for the lions if I have to write it down"! I told her she'd probably want to use a laptop for that and not to worry, just do the best she could. More tears, more "it's tooooooo difficult".

First grade!

WTF happened to fun learning experience? Was that a 70s PNW thing?? Sheesh.

Damn Homework Nazi is bringing my Knittin' Mojo down :(

BAH

On a happier note the postino did bring a box of neat stuff from my Knittyboard spinning SP! Will play show and tell domani. Time to go make some capital Ns.