Paul E. Doniger wrote:

> The problem for many elementary teachers is that they can't teach 
> grammar because they were not trained for the job! Perhaps they also 
> don't want to do so, but that may simply be coming from their sense of 
> inadequacy in the subject.

Teachers may also feel some anxiety about why it is necessary to teach 
certain things. Children do influence teachers and are often resistent 
to learning things that they see as "stupid", and this does extend to 
other subjects such as math and history. I think that some effort has 
been made, particularly in math, to make what children are being taught 
relevant to what happens in the world and I have actually seen 
interesting grammar books that have been written for students. My own 
son's seventh grade grammar book is toxic, in my opinion. I expect that 
this is true of many materials currently in use. He is a good writer and 
I have managed to convince him that grammar can help him write better, 
so he is still hanging on.

Omar

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