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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.[/quote]

I'm an ESOL teacher and this is also the way the thinking is going in terms of ESOL instruction. WIDA (our governing body) is moving toward a complete focus on meaning and comprehensibility vs. meaning plus grammar, conventions, etc. So in a few years we won't even be able to explicitly teach grammar/syntax/conventions to non-native speakers. This should be interesting.

I've taught in almost every elementary grade level and there has been grammar instruction in every grade level. In the past few weeks alone in 3rd grade the classroom teachers have taught how to write using dialogue, root words and affixes as well as regular and irregular plural nouns. There were also a few other things in there as well.  Curriculum 2.0 was supposed to delve deeper, but the literacy curriculum is pretty much a mile wide and an inch deep. They move so quickly and have to cover so many objectives in such little time and most of them don't connect well at all. I have no idea what they were smoking when they wrote it and whoever approved it should not work in education. Period.

Also, principals don't allow corrected work to go on the bulletin boards.[/quote]

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