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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have always maintained that in my experience,[b] DCPS fails miserably in teaching writing to students.[/b]  Both of my dc's receive outside tutoring to better develop that very important skill.[/quote]

One correction - the issue is not limited to DCPS. It's an issue with any public system (and probably private too). Even upper level Eng courses such as AP Lit and AP Lang, they are not "writing" courses. [/quote]

Lots of schools do a poor job of teaching the mechanics of writing.  Very few schools teach the kind of rigorous grammar that I learned as an elementary school student (does anyone diagram sentences anymore?).  People think that literature courses are writing courses, but they aren't.  Reading a lot does help, but it's not the same.  I had a great teacher in HS who made us write tons of five-paragraph essays and was a stickler for grammar and usage, but it wasn't really until college that I consistently received substantial feedback on my writing (I was a history major, and IME, that tends to help people become good writers because it's one of the most writing-intensive majors).  I went to law school and found that many of my classmates, who did well enough in their very prestigious colleges to get into a T10 program, were not very good writers, on many levels--organization, formulating a coherent and persuasive argument, grammar and usage, etc.  [/quote]

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