As I have often said in relation to KISS Grammar, I really appreciate the interest and support that KISS is receiving from homeschoolers, but my main objective is to change the way in which grammar is taught in our public schools. That will be extremely difficult to do, primarily because, in spite of all the talk about standards, there is very little sequencing in the public school curriculum. As a simply example, one year, homeschoolers can use KISS Level One to teach their children how to identify subjects, verbs, and prepositional phrases. In the next year, they can build on what their children already know about these three constructions to teach their children how to identify and intelligently discuss clauses. No such "building" is possible in our public schools. In other words, our public schools cannot teach a basic concept and then expand on it to develop "understanding." Instead, our school systems leave most of our students with decaying deposits of unrelated facts. 
 
 
 

Dr. Vavra has been teaching Freshman Composition at the college level for almost forty years. He is also the designer of  the free "KISS Grammar" instructional materials.