Ah Ha moments

I love Ah Ha moments. I love when I get them, I love when other people get them and I more especially love it when my kids get them.
My eldest child and I were going over her reading and spelling last night. We reviewed the two sounds C can make and when you should spell with the letter K.
If C is followed by i,e or y it makes the /s/ sound, so if you are spelling a word with the /k/ sound and the letter following it is i, e or y you use a K, all other times you spell with C.
Her eyes where huge, she got a huge beaming smile on her face and said,"That is so easy! It makes sense!"
Then she looked at me with confusion and said,"Why don't they teach us that in school?"
My answer to her is, I am not sure. Maybe they do, maybe she missed that day, maybe she was daydreaming, however it seems a pretty important concept to let slide by.
The English language is riddled with silly rules, but once you learn the rules it makes sense. Spelling and reading become easier.
It is a conspiracy.
Through the process of helping her learn to read and spell I myself am learning things I never knew!
Soon after this my Ah Ha moment hit, I can teach my children! Yes I realize I have been doing this since their birth! Go on down the list of crawling, walking, manners and a few other important things, but once they turn 5 you turn them over to the State and the State knows best. People complain about the degradation of our schools and blame it on the lack of parent involvement, but parents have been told for so long, that the State knows best, let us do our job, your kid is in good hands. Creepy way of putting it.
Imagine if each teacher was able to pick the curriculum they found to work the best towards their teaching style, imagine if you as a parent were able to pick the teacher that used the curriculum you thought worked best for your child. If there happened to be a certain teacher that no one picked, well maybe that teacher lost funding.
Schools would be competitive, still work with in a budget and the kids would learn. You would remove the ear of politicians from the great sales people of the best curriculum there is (whole language) and kids could be kids instead of a pawn in the pockets of people who are over paid for knowing what is best for your child.
Seems to simple to work? I can also imagine a teacher is better able at working with in a budget than the over paid people who try to write the budgets in the first place. The simplest solutions are the usually the best answers.
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