U.K.G project

You don't really hear anything good about schools these days. They're either demanding, expensive and inhumane or they're undisciplined, mismanaged and there's 'no proper teaching'.

Of course, what you hear also depends on the kind of parent you're listening to and some of them are pretty neurotic. My niece studies in S.B.O.A CBSE school and my sister has so far neither complained about inhumanity or declining intelligence in her daughter.

However, I have noticed a disturbing trend.
The homework is fine, the activities are good but the projects they send home are not for the kids, they're for the parents. In the past couple of months, my sister has made slides on etiquette, the food pyramid, kitchen utilities, charts on wildlife and she's currently working on a project about airports.
These kids can't even spell the word airport yet. And all this is on display for other parents to come and see, even though the kids themselves only have a vague idea about what the heck is going on.

Okay, my questions are:

1. Isn't the teacher supposed to prepare charts and other teaching aids?
Most teachers try and get all the work they can out of hapless parents.

2. Why don't they give kids projects which they can do themselves?
So you want a project on airports? Ask each kid to draw a picture of a plane and tell the class a few lines about what they know or feel about airports.
I don't think they should tell the kid's mother to prepare a power point presentation, take printouts,prepare charts or models just to display it to other parents.

My niece is pretty excited to go to school anyway, so it's not all bad. She comes home every evening and demands a status report of any project her teacher's told my sister to do. It's kind of funny, really.