Originally Posted by JumpinJesus

It was a map of Ohio. I shook my head and walked away. Part of me felt like a failure because 4th graders in Ohio study Ohio in social studies. The whole year is a focus on Ohio. The cover of their book has a big map of Ohio on it. There are maps of Ohio throughout the entire book. We went over and over every single type of map there could be: political, physical, land feature, population, road, resource, etc. yet this kid still didn't know what Ohio looked like.

Talking with the other 4th grade teacher, we couldn't figure it out....he had similar problems. Why weren't our students learning? Was it us? Was it their parents? Was it the system? To this day, I'm still not positive what it is, but I do believe that parents play a huge part in the success of students.