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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, everyone! OP here and your replies are definitely helpful.

My reasons for considering private have very little to do with college matriculation. I’m motivated and impressed more by the smaller class sizes and sense of community that many of the local privates offer. Most importantly, like many of you have stated, the private schools seems to place much more emphasis on writing, spelling, and grammar.

I work in consulting and am in my 40’s, and am increasingly frustrated by how poor the writing is amongst the 20-something’s. This just seems to get worse year after year with each recruiting class. There are a few exceptions and stand outs with stellar communication ability - and time and again I always come to find out they all went to private school.

Gen Z writing ability rant aside, I just hope I’m in a financial spot (fingers crossed) to make this happen after 5th grade.

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OP I share your frustration. You should join the English Language Arts Parent Advisory Committee. Their focus this year is in improving the writing curriculum at APS which unfortunately is quite weak. [/quote]

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