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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you think about skills such as grammar, geography, financial literacy, public speaking?[/quote]

9:51 here.  My kids learned grammar in (private) middle school.  It was a rigorous program.  Both kids also had grammar in 9th grade and had grammar proficiency tests in 9th grade.  So that seemed to be well covered.  Geography was covered in part in world history.  One kid had to memorize the capitals and countries on every continent for a series of tests. Of course there is always more they can do on this, although I think Geography is an elective at our public school, maybe even an AP?  Not sure about financial literacy.  One of my kids is very interested in the stock market and does invest already.  I think there is a personal financial class at school but it's not one DC plans to take.  Will take AP micro and macro econ instead, but that's not really the same as financial literacy.  Public speaking is one that they've both had to do a surprising amount of through class presentations.  I am not sure they have actually had formal teaching in that though so that may be worth considering.

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