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How old is your kid?

The fifth grade teachers at our school went into panic mode when 3/4 of the entire 5th grade couldn't write a basic paragraph. They reached out to other 5th grade teachers at other schools across the county and to make a long story short, mcps discovered that [b]yet another shortcoming of 2.0 is that they failed to adequately teach writing[/b]. So they dropped everything and went back to the old way of teaching (much younger kids) how to write a paragraph---then worked their way up to three paragraphs.

This happened last year to the 2.0 guinea pigs.

So you probably should rely on the mechanics to come later. They didn't for 5th graders last year, and it caused a literal frenzy.

Fwiw, this wasn't a Title I or Focus school. These were upper class mostly white kids...and they couldn't write a basic paragraph in 5th grade.

That's probably why parents freak out about HGCs. I get it now. [/quote]

That's odd, given that my kid has been writing multi-paragraph pieces of writing at school since second grade, in a school that does not have upper-class, mostly-white kids. I wonder why the upper-class, mostly-white kids were incapable of it?[/quote]

Because they are not Asian. We really need to close the horrible white vs. Asian achievement gap in MCPS. Those white kids' self-esteem might be hurt, though, so let's be sure to sugar coat the reasons for their failure to keep up. Please don't suggest that it might be that the Asian kids just work harder! Snowflake Griffin and his sister Michele (Yes, just one l...and you had better spell that "right" you loser) need time to practice for the big lacrosse game![/quote]

That's odd.  My school is predominantly white.  My first grader and her classmates are writing paragraphs.  No problem.  Maybe this is an issue with a particular school?[/quote]

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