I totally agree. Why should the expectations be so low? It feels like they think the kids are not capable.
Every week, my son gets a new study guide for either Science or Social Studies. On the study guide he is given the page and paragraph for each anwser. On the test, the teacher provides the 2 sentence anwsers which they can lose points for improper punctuation. My son complained to me he would like to come up with his own anwser. He also would prefer to read the text book and just take the test becuase he already knows most of the information before he reads it. Very FRUSTRATING.