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High school kids these days can barely write a proper sentence of longer than 5 words. If you have the means (personally or financially),
teach your kids yourself or pay someone else (beginning informally) as early as Kindergarten or first grade. My kids have pretty much not gotten any actual meaningful grammar lessons up to and including high school at various APS schools. One previous high school English class the kids basically didn't read even one entire book from cover to cover. They read select chapters of a handful and watched a bunch (at least once a week) of "thematic" movies and shows that covered whatever theme they were working on. They barely had to write anything. And the teacher constantly made grammar and spelling mistakes that it's hard to blame the old "typo" much like an Hollywood actor can't say their Instagram account was hacked again. Another high school history class, more time was spent on coloring, making ppt slides, and designing fake social media pages than actually writing essays. It's the problem of having general ed classrooms inclusive of illiterate students.
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Which part, the kids or some teachers who are clearly not all there? Ask your kids to show you the Canvas page of a class that required students to actively do some assignments in the Discussion section. It is pretty depressing. Also, when kids do group assignments, see what some of the kids are adding to the writing and analysis. My kids are constantly complaining about this and also about the teachers' ability to teach coherently that I basically called my kids out for being overly dramatic but it was I who felt stupid in the end when they showed me this. Those aren't the only class examples I have: they're just the least likely to be easily identified to out both teachers and schools. These are social science classes that supposedly have a bunch of "gt" students.
So, like I said before. Most teachers have no time to properly teach grammar because they have to babysit kids. So find a way to teach your kids grammar. And also read as many books to your kids as possible and teach them basic arithmetic concepts, which isn't too hard, either. Even EFL parents shouldn't be excused--teach them these things in the native language. While the words may be different, the concepts are the same and most kids at the early primary level are resilient enough to be able to translate into English at some point. Literacy starts at home.