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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree English is the weak point.

I think there’s one easy fix which is to assign more books and better book.  Basically everything my kids read was written after 1950 and most of t was written after 2000.  They don’t read Shakespeare, dickens, Britney, Steinbeck, Hawthorne, Wharton, Austen etc.

The second one, which is probably impossible to solve, is more feedback on their writing.  They just aren’t staffed for that.  They would need to give all the English teachers at least one or two more additional planning periods to give them time to really read and edit and provide substantive feedback on writing.  Or give them TAs or something.  (Although it’s not even clear to me that the new graduates are capable of that.) [/quote]

Both of my kids have read Shakespeare and Steinbeck.[/quote]

Not in MCPS.  Ours watched a video of Romeo and Juliet but never actually read it (ours techincally did as I bought the book to help them undestand it).[/quote]

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