📚 Curriculum

Two backpacks: the one we pack out of fear, and the one school asks for

In August the expectations stack up high: the letters, counting to a hundred, telling the time, a whole book. But the curriculum sets no competence goals until after year two — and what school actually asks for fits in a nearly empty bag.

What we pack out of fear read a whole book tell the time count to 100 all the letters What school actually asks for daring to ask sitting with not knowing yet managing a little alone Three things — and none of them can be drilled
What we fear is required
What the curriculum actually asks
The child who carries it
0
competence goals apply on the first day of school
after 2
years come the first goals in reading and maths
3 things
school hopes for — and none of them are academic