Have you ever wondered how teachers and schools decide what kids are supposed to learn? Probably not, I bet (I never wondered as a kid). However, I still think, now that I brought it up, it's kind of an interesting question. Kids don't wonder how a school or teacher decides what to teach, but they do constantly wonder why they have to learn certain things.
The answer is often because the school has a legal obligation to teach certain skills in different subject areas. New Jersey, for Mathematics and Language Arts, uses something called the Common Core State Standards, which is a national project to establish shared standards. Here's a link to everything that you are supposed to learn in Language Arts.
I really like these standards; I think that they're much better than the one that they replaced. They're hard to understand, I admit, if you aren't a teacher or a principal, but feel free to ask me what standard applies to anything that I ask you to do, since it was my job to learn them and teach them to you.
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