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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Have you taught basic elementary principals like proper nouns? It actually isn’t as simple as you’d think. Yes it can be done but teaching anything does indeed require knowing how to teach. And it would be one thing if it was just proper nouns. But many (not all!) teachers and administrators these days think that once they have done a few lessons on a topic, it’s the parent’s job to make sure the concept sticks. This is true of math facts, handwriting, spelling, and many other fundamental topics, sometimes even phonics (😳😳😳).

It’s completely reasonable to expect that a teacher teach these things in school. And in fact that is what has traditionally been done and is done in many places. Those of us who expect our kids to learn these things in school aren’t crazy. [/quote]

Take a breath. If you read my post, I agree that teachers should be teaching these things in school. Certainly more than they are in FCPS.

As for "have I taught basic elementary principles like proper nouns?", the answer is yes. I worked with my kid on grammar AND writing through late ES and MS (when they were DL). There are lots of resources to help where we needed it. My DC is in 9th now and she actually texted me from school at the beginning of the year thanking me for working with here (they were doing assessments and most of here HONORS class couldn't string together a paragraph). She complained mightily when we had our "lessons" but they have paid off. And they were not burdensome or cumbersome. I'd rather not have to do it. But I could stand on principle and she wouldn't learn what she needed. Or I could just do what needed to be done. [/quote]

NP. The “take a breath” comment was you being a smart a$$. Couldn’t get past that and don’t care about anything else you wrote. [/quote]

Yes, it was. You deserved it. Your loss. [/quote]

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