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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids go to Whitman. They are native English speakers. They get all As. Their writing is awful. Poor grammar and punctuation. Circular sentences, pointless paragraphs. In an essay, they don’t know how to build an argument. And they read more than most other kids. I am in shock. How can this be? Anyone else notice this issue with their kids?[/quote]

Parents should have pulled their kids out of schools when they introduced curriculum 2.0 which was an experimental program that mandated letting kids figure out the rules of writing rather than being strictly taught them. 
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Right because all of us can afford 60k a year and there are enough private school spots.   Great advice.  [/quote]

Catholic schools are as little as $10K/year. Most DCUM posters can afford that.[/quote]

I looked at Catholics.  Most were not interesting in having non Catholics and their practices were archaic.  [/quote]

What practices were archaic?  [/quote]

Apparently writing instruction, penmanship, and using textbooks/written notes.

I was against Catholic schools at first. We aren’t Catholic and I held my family’s negative beliefs about Catholicism. And then I toured a school to see how it compared to my local public. I loved it, and I submitted the application with fingers crossed. That was 12 years ago. I’ve now had one child graduate from Catholic schools and another on his way through.

I love the “archaic” practices. They could also be considered tried and true. It’s refreshing to see real textbooks, less technology use, high expectations for work and behavior. I love the daily writing practice. We are giving up higher math tracks, but I am not one to push my child far ahead in math “just because..” Calculus by senior year worked well for my older child’s college admissions.[/quote]

Re: less technology - everyone should be very concerned with the mcps overuse of chrome books. Kids cannot spell thanks to autocorrect, and kids certainly cannot read/write in cursive or even print well.

There’s a reason why some things never change in catholic schools (and most privates): because those things deliver results.  [/quote]

They cannot spell as they don’t teach spelling.  [/quote]

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