We are taught that competition is one of the keys to development. When my grand daughter went to school in Mexico, she had a hard time dealing with the concept that your grade depended on how well the group, that you were in did as a whole. So not everybody could perform equally, like real life. So here is a excerpt from this article. Teachers said kindergartners are bewildered. “Sharing is not caring anymore; developmentally, it’s not the right thing to do,” said one Queens teacher, whose pupils kept trying to help one another on the math test she gave for the first time this fall. I think that sharing is definitely a better thing to learn.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:20:56 +0000