Have a first from Oxford. Can't do ks2 sats

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In particular the spag. I have never heard of a subordinating conjunction before. It has literally not been a thing that has touched my life. When I googled it, I recognised the thing in the description but I have never had to know the name. I have straight As all the way through secondary education and a good career and this is something I have never needed.

And they are making 10yos memorise this? And adverbials (also had to google). Ye Gods! Why?

The reasoning at the time was that understanding grammar and language construction would make learning computer coding easier in the future - programming languages are language learning.

Honestly it is as well my husband has a science degree and can do maths as I cannot do help with most of DS's maths. I could do things like multiplying with integers and stuff when I learned it at school, but honestly the 'how to' was gone from my brain the minute I finished my maths GCSE and never had to go near it again.

Although it's also not ideal that DS has ADHD and difficulty with the working memory needed for maths, and DH is a natural mathematician who doesn't really understand what it's like not to be one... sigh

This is a zombie thread but it's an interesting point - a programmer friend of mine started out with a degree in linguistics and found the logical construction of sentences translated into learning coding very well.

Meanwhile I'm really rather fucking good at grammar - could do the grammatical analysis sections of a SALT degree with ease (unlike lots in the course who struggled and I ended up helping out), but I cannot grasp coding at all. I might be a bit of a language geek (not when typing on internet forums) but I do not speak computer! (Currently fascinated by BSL grammatical rules)