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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s unbelievable that people are suggesting kids will pick up grammar just from reading quality literature.  My third grader loves to read but still isn’t capitalizing proper nouns.  This is the schools job.  I am not trained to be a teacher.[/quote]

You can’t teach you kid about proper nouns? It’s public school and grammar has never been that important. Same with spelling and handwriting. [/quote]

Grammar has always been important. So is spelling. And handwriting. It is still being taught in other school districts. Stop acting like this is all new and parents are being unreasonable to expect our kids are taught the basics.[/quote]

It isn't important to public schools. If it was, it would be tested. What is tested is taught. [/quote]

Did it ever occur to you that maybe writing is not on those standardized tests anymore because it is much harder and time-consuming to grade then multiple choice questions? Writing used to be on standardized tests. I remember doing it for standardized tests when I was in grade school. My mom who taught elementary remembers it being on the standardized tests. Then once it stopped being on those tests schools stopped including writing instruction in their  curricula. Horrible mistake. They didn’t drop writing instruction because writing isn’t important. They dropped it because they are teaching to these stupid test. No Child Left Behind absolutely ruined education.[/quote]

I took standardized tests in ES. Back then it was the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. No writing on that. It was fill in the bubble testing. What standardized tests did you take that involved writing? I agree that writing is important. I am not defending public schools. I'm a math teacher in a public school. I switched my kid to Catholic school in part because of his terrible writing.[/quote]

There was a VA writing SOL for years.[/quote]

What happened to if?[/quote]

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