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[quote=Anonymous]Dalton has this right. All the research backs it. Teaching kids presentation too young doesn’t actually build the right skills to be able to write at a high school or academic level. It does, however, produce work so that parents feel like they are getting their money’s worth.

If you teach writing this way, they never learn to do anything other than present what you want to hear. You really should just stuff them with as much content as you can until they gain executive skills at 11 or 12.

Everyone on this board should read about Lucy Calkins and how her methods destroyed literacy in this country and the Mississippi miracle if they need examples of how bad pedagogy can infect these schools.

quote=Anonymous]Not a girls school but since it's otherwise relevant: I was looking at Dalton's course catalog today and was alarmed that they list "write a single expository paragraph" as a 5th grade skill and "produce a 5-paragraph essay" as a 7th grade one; even a GenEd public teaches those skills in 4th/5th, and they're major components of the state ELA assessments in those years. (when my kid was in public 6th grade she had to churn out a 5-paragraph essay every few weeks at least)[/quote][/quote]

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