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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m tired of listening to all these parents talk about their math wiz kids and how they need their kid to be accelerated 3 grades. Good for them - they also can’t string a coherent sentence together without the help of AI and my kid happens to be very creative and artsy (looooves to write).  FWIW I was a B student in math and took 1 math lite class in college so don’t see the need for all this crazy focus on math if it’s not your thing. I found a job and have a career that pays well. Can’t we focus on other things besides math and not punish kids for not being mathaletes ( mine happens to have an IEP for math) which is what this feels like. He could spend all his time on math and still not get more than a C. What happened to being well rounded?[/quote]

I think there are many reasons.  As someone mentioned, math is black and white.  The answer is right or wrong. It’s easier to work (or pay someone to work) with your child on math skills. Writing is a subjective still.  It is harder to teach and there is so much variance to what can be taught and how it would taught, the style, etc. Kids aren’t “tested” on writing in quite the same way they are in math.  They even discontinued the essay portion of the SAT.  However, college essays are a big part of the application and weighted heavily. But even so, the are written ahead of time, edited, people can hire help for them…they aren’t solely dependent on the skill of the person writing it, like your math grades and scores would be.  A kid weak in writing, with enough time and money, can have an amazing college essay.

I totally agree you though, that writing skills ARE equally important.  Unfortunately schools are doing a really terrible job in developing them. [/quote]

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