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[quote=Anonymous]I have a child in 5th grade. They did some teaching on how to spell phonetically n grades 1-3, but nothing after that. He still has no clue about parts of speech, verb/noun relationships, what a run-on sentence is. He has never taken a single spelling sheet home. However, they are supposed to write paragraphs and edit their mistakes. I was just on the phone with his teacher and she said: "we tell them to write freely and then we will fix all of the mistakes later." My kid struggles with this free flow of ideas approach. He is a kid that likes rules. He does really well in math because of that. I wish the schools would teach our children the rules for writing too. Where I grew up we concentrated equally on grammar and creative writing. I guess I'll have to teach him grammar on my own at home. Vent over.[/quote]
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