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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, it isn't just your DC's teacher.  I confirmed with my 4th grader's teacher that her students had never had much experience writing paragraphs, and they're struggling to rite their first 1-pagers this quarter.  I'm livid as my DC get some all to mostly all 4s on report cards.  What they are doing in class is not 4th grade work.   Don't get me started on math.

I have a DC in AAP, and even there the system doesn't care about spelling or grammar.

And what's making me more annoyed is hearing about the same crap happening at MS level.  No homework policies are coming there's too.  If subjects aren't reinforced in school or at home, how the heck are students expected to learn anything?  They aren't learning anything rushing through e.g. DreamBox to get the games.  No wonder parents are writing college applications for their DCs. [/quote]

I've been happy with our AAP classes in ES. They drill mult. facts, learn spelling and grammar and have homework. I think the no homework policies are an effort to close the achievement gap. All practice must now occur in the schools only.[/quote]

Everything they've done is on-grade level.  The things you mentioned about AAP used to be GenEd.  At a recent kid event, a parent pulled me aside and asked if I too was underwhelmed by what AAP was doing.  I was surprised, because I don't know her, but it seems the parents of students in my DC's cohort aren't impressed, and I think with good reason.  For example, knowing multiplication math facts cold by end of third grade isn't something that AAP should hang its hat on.  That used to be expected of GenEd 3rd graders too, but apparently that's not universally (?) true any more.  Certainly isn't true at our base.[/quote]

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