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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we keep only talking about math?  It is a known fact that MCPS does a very poor job teaching kids how to read and especially write.  My kid went through middle school in a W cluster with As in English and was recommended for honors English in 9th grade.  We moved him to private in 9th, only to find out he was not adequately prepared to do honors level English.  It took a couple of years, but he came out an excellent writer in the long run.  He was always a strong math kid and was well prepared for math in the private school.[/quote]

Just in my experience this is the area private tends to do significantly better.  I think reduced focus on APs actually helps.  As a public school student I learned to write for the AP test and get 5s.  I went to UVA undergrad and learned that was not in fact how good writing is done.  Similarly, when I taught undergrads I noticed this difference between public and private kids.  But like me, the other public school kids did figure it out since they were smart kids.

Unless something big changes we don’t plan to do private for our kids but I would absolutely prefer a private high school curriculum in English and social studies, at least from what I’ve seen.[/quote]

I still remember my private high school English classes. Just a blackboard, desks in a circle, and a book we discussed. This was in the early 2000s. My understanding is nothing has really changed there now, except the kids take notes on laptops probably.

We spent an entire 90 min period analyzing a 10-line poem. At the end, my teacher said, “And that’s how you read a poem.”

My undergrad English classes didn’t even go into that level of depth, to be honest.[/quote]

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