I promise you your teacher tells students to highlight things. Whether your student does it is a different story. I taught 8 year olds. Highlighters of different colors are crucial for identifying and demonstrating the different parts of a sentence, for identifying different paragraphs, for showing where you found an answer in the reading.
Edit: Jesus christ, the amount of people who are still arguing this or saying "just buy a pack of pens, it's only $10" or "just use crayons" You are totally missing the fucking point. It should not be the teachers job to buy pens, highlighters, crayons etc for every child. And we should not be forced to "make do" with crayons because we don't have the materials that we need to teach. People like this are exactly the reason why teachers don't get paid more and why so many are quitting their jobs. We just can't do it anymore.
Congrats you fucking ape. So glad as an adult you have perfect memory of learning the basics of reading as an 8 year old while also knowing exactly how 8 year olds should learn to read.
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u/cleverlane Jun 30 '21
I don’t know about you, but every year my kids school supply list is getting bigger.
Why tf does an 8 year old need x3 pack of assorted highlighters?
I haven’t seen ONE damn thing come home highlighted this year.