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[quote=Anonymous]I think public is fine for this.

Encourage your children to do speech and debate in MS/HS for public speaking.  Also have conversations about the world, movies, politics, ideas etc.  Regularly put your kids in situations where they need to speak to adults (at get-togethers, making doctor appointments, at the store).

We've had fairly good experiences with writing instruction in FCPS, but it's variable.  One of the best ways to become a good writer is to read, so instead of formal supplementing we mostly just encourage wide-ranging reading.  We have a lot of books around, go to the library regularly and have long had a policy that all screens are off at least an hour before bed (including screens for homework). That has been sufficient for encouraging our kids to be readers. My HS kid will even regularly pick up our New York Review of Books and read articles he's interested in.

The one supplementation I will do on writing is give occasionally feedback on larger written assignments.  They put it in a google doc and I add editorial comments like:  Watch out for passive voice, Should this be one paragraph? Do you have evidence for that claim?  Reword this sentence so it flows better.  Watch your shifting tenses. Verb-subject agreement.  (I've checked in with teachers and they have no problem with this kind of involvement in students' writing--and say that they try to do editing in class that addresses the same things but it can be hard to individualize). [/quote]

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