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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s unbelievable that people are suggesting kids will pick up grammar just from reading quality literature.  My third grader loves to read but still isn’t capitalizing proper nouns.  This is the schools job.  I am not trained to be a teacher.[/quote]

You can’t teach you kid about proper nouns? It’s public school and grammar has never been that important. Same with spelling and handwriting. [/quote]

She could teach her kids about proper nouns, sure, if she learned how to teach it, made her kid sit down after a full day of instruction, and did as many lessons as it required for her kid to learn it.

But why should she have to do that? Her kid goes to *school* and there is no reason teachers can’t do that same thing and teach 25 kids instead of just one. [/quote]

Oh come on. I agree that parents shouldn't HAVE to teach some of this basic stuff but it is not a huge haul to teach SOME of it. And proper nouns does not require knowing how to teach or require a huge lift at home. And frankly, it can be reinforced while out an about "Campbell's soup", is that a proper noun, Larla?[/quote]

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