When you assume ..

My high school physics teacher taught me :

When you "ass-u-me" you make an ass of you and me!

So, I did make an ass of me, when I assumed that textbooks in the USA would go through some kind of rigorous checking and proof reading before hitting the stands.

Worse, I assumed that teachers who give homework handouts, will check what they hand out, for quality!

As most of you have pointed out in response to my previous post, it does not sound right to write the letter "M" that way.

The reason I got all mad was that 5 of the 26 alphabets had an error in the way the strokes were mentioned!! Imagine how it would slow a kid down while taking notes in high school or college! I survived high school simply because I would write very fast and take extensive notes to go over at home. God forbid, Jr. ends up learning like me, and relies on notes, except she cannot write fast enough because 20% of the time she is going back and forth writing wrong strokes.. the nightmare!!

Here are some pictures from the homework sheet.

ACtually the option in the book (Phonics II - California syllabus ?) is worse!

Me rest case!

What ?

That sentence will be perfectly legitimate and taught in text books by the time Jr. hits middle school.

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Teaching it right, the first time..

Jr. is learning to write all the alphabets. It has been a work in progress for the last year!

I may have finally found the problem. Most of the books here which teach her how to write the letters just have wrong ways of writing the english alphabet.

As far as I know, when we write, we try to have as many strokes going from left to right because the language is read and written "left to right"!

Here is a simple question. What is the correct way to write capital M ?

I would choose the first way, and I do write like that.. Jr. is being asked to write the second way! Would'nt that just slow you down if you wrote letters back and forth ?

This is an official text book !! Or maybe I was just taught wrong ?

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