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[quote=Anonymous]We have a tutor to supplement, because I find the 4th grade curriculum in MCPS to be lacking. DS is keeping up w/ school assignments, but they are not challenging at all (older DS was in the HGC, where he was definitely challenged). Our tutor is for writing (not math). At school my DS can write 3 sentences and no matter what he writes they're acceptable, even if they're poorly written.  He can do much better, but the teachers don't ask much of him.  No research projects, no in-depth book reports.

This tutor is teaching him to organize his thoughts, giving him challenging writing assignments, correcting his writing (spelling, grammar) and is setting a much higher bar than MCPS.  Working on vocabulary, giving him reading assignments and then asking him to write in depth about the book or short story.

We're doing this because the school's not, not so that he can get better grades (he mostly gets Ps although he did get an ES once).  Good writing is an essential skill (and looking ahead, it doesn't seem like the middle schools are focusing on writing skills either).

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