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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been looking for a place to post this as we are starting to look for homes in Arlington in what many on DCUM describe as  "good" school pyramids.

On Friday, I saw a note from a colleague's  daughter about selling Girl Scout cookies.  The colleague lives in a very nice house in Arlington and both she and her spouse seem well educated.  The child said that she was 7 years old and the note was handwritten.  The writing was very difficult to read and the child even spelled the word "Girl" in "Girl Scouts" incorrectly.   The note also made no sense and was understandable only because a cookie order form was attached to it.

At 7 years old, a child would be in the second grade and should be able to write a one sentence coherent note.  
I casually asked the mother if her daughter liked school, and the mother said she loved it and was a top student.

I know kids use computers and that handwriting, spelling, and punctuation are not considered important, but is that what Arlington schools produce?  [/quote]

As the parent of a 7 year old in an Arlington public school, my experience is that handwriting at this age varies wildly by child and by level of effort.  My own DC's can be atrocious or pretty good (to a different poster's point, I feel for the kid who receives the 23rd valentine she wrote this weekend).  Meanwhile, the many notes she brings home from friends range from adult-like handwriting to a scrawl.  They do seem less focused on spelling than I was a kid (no spelling lists/tests), but they teach literacy/understanding language much more deliberately than I recall and I suppose that's supposed to carry over in to spelling at some point.[/quote]

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